I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! We had an amazing first Christmas in Portland! On Christmas Eve, we spent the morning cleaning up and baking. Then, we enjoyed some outside time because it was an amazingly GORGEOUS day in Portland. We went to the Christmas Eve service at Imago and then headed home for dinnner. My sister Jill and her boyfriend Aaron came over for tamales (YUM!), games, music, and gifts that night. We also skyped with my family in LA as we were all opening gifts! It was so much fun! I love that technology brings us together despite our distance. We let the kids stay up until 10:30 and then shooed them off to bed (both fell asleep immediately). We don't "do" Santa at our house, so all the presents had been under the tree as they were arriving from out-of-state family members. They were up at 7am on Christmas morning, but we made them wait until 8am to get into their stockings and open the rest of the gifts. We skyped with Peter's family so they could watch the kids open the gifts they gave to them. We had a big ham lunch before Peter had to go to work. We had intended to have a completely unplugged day, but just had to test out our new Blu Ray player! So, we watched a movie in the (rainy!) afternoon and then played with some of their new toys (I also did a lot of laundry....). After a light dinner of sandwiches and fruit, we had a lot of fun playing a few games with our awesome neighbors. It was another late night because we were having such a great time with them. It was a wonderful Christmas! Hope you all had one too!
Christmas Eve
With Auntie Jill
With Aaron and Jill
Opening gifts
Skyping with CA family
Sisters!
Christmas Morning
Stockings!
More presents
Our Angel Baby Ezra
Dad and Mom got some cool gifts too!
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