What a joyous time it was for us as Patrick and I were able to enjoy our first Christmas together as a family! It was a wonderful one!
We started out spending the weekend before Christmas with my family in Andrews. We ate a Christmas dinner with my parents and my sister before tearing into all of the presents. It was a great time. After our "Christmas" we decided to go to the movie theater to watch National Treasure 2. It is a very good movie, and if you haven't seen it you should!
On Christmas Eve, we headed back home so that we could have our very own Christmas celebration on Christmas Day. We had a great day. We slept late, ate another Christmas meal, and opened presents. Even Kaiko enjoyed that part. She loved digging into her stocking full of goodies from "Santa". (Yes, she is 28 in doggy years and she still believes in Santa...Shhhh)
Patrick worked throughout the rest of the week before we headed to Austin to have Christmas with his family over the New Year's weekend. It was good to spend time with everybody again. We even got to see Brien and Jeanie and hear all about their honeymoon trip to South Africa! We were bummed that Michael, Christie, and Courtney didn't make it, but we had a great family Christmas. Once again, we ate a Christmas meal and opened presents. Wow! How blessed are we to have so many great family meals over the holidays!
capture a Christmas card picture with Kaiko"
This is our Christmas Card picture after
giving up on Kaiko being included.
Opening presents!
