My last day to work for the year was Dec 20 -- hooray for working at a university! We debated taking a trip, but decided to just enjoy the break, celebrate with our various groups and stay close to home.
Our festivities started on Saturday when we celebrated with Kevin's mom's side of the family -- lots of food, family and fun that day. I'm not the biggest fan of a white elephant gift exchange, but learned to just take it as a fun activity and don't get my heart set on any one gift. We do get a lot of fun stories from it each year.
My parents came up on Monday and we had Christmas with them, my sister and her fiance (still love that I can call him that now!) that day, complete with some homemade Texas chili -- sis' fiance and Kevin made the chili while my sis and I baked cookies - chocolate cookies with mint Hershey kiss on top, and a few with reese's bells instead (K's idea).
We spent Christmas eve with my in-laws and exchanged gifts with them last night. This actually worked pretty well so today we could focus on thei kids' gifts. We went back over to my in-laws for Christmas dinner and opened gifts with our niece and nephew and played with them. You really do need 3 adults for each kid, for the assembly of some of their gifts-- the dollhouse our niece received took several of us to assemble -- and was a hit with both kids! I still hear about the Barbie McDonald's my dad had to assemble the middle of the night and all the stickers he had to put onto it...but boy, did I love that toy!
Our gifts were easy open and go for our niece (thank you Melissa and Doug) and the books and puzzle we got our nephew will be enjoyed later in the year.They were overwhelmed with all the toys and also loved playing in the box the dollhouse came in!
Its been a fantastic few days, and I know that I'll enjoy the next few days off....
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