The celebrations were on going but I felt like Christmas truly began with breakfast Christmas Eve morning at Market Street. Not everyone came, basically "the singles" (the new easiest name to call us four un-married children), Steve, Jamie, and Mom and Dad. It was so fun to share the morning together...
The rest of Christmas Eve consisted of me having to work (boo!), finishing up some last minute Christmas items, and then heading out to my parents.
Christmas Eve my mom always makes a big turkey dinner and it was so good! Again, not the whole family was there, but it was fun with those who came. After dinner Steve came over and we all headed to Heidi's house for a Wii Little Party. It was so much fun to compete against each other!
Christmas Day was definitely a different experience this year. As most of us are older and those with families aren't around, our morning activities got pushed back an hour for the first time in my life! It did help to make the morning last a little longer, but isn't there just something about getting up early on Christmas morning? I amazing did SLEEP until 7:00 and then waited for the 8:00 kick-off.
The whole gang showed up around 11:00 for our Christmas Breakfast and the rest of our Christmas morning. There are pictures galore of this, but again I don't have ANY. But Brooke and I did enjoy each other's company all morning...
The family slowly dispersed throughout the day and it was a pretty mellow afternoon. That night I had planned about the world's greatest, most cheesy date for Steve and I and it turned out wonderfully (more to come on that later)...Saturday while everyone was still in town we decided to celebrate Heidi's birthday. We all met for lunch at Pei Wei. We thought we would celebrate and all dress in coordinating colors, we look good huh? (OK, it was a complete fluke)
We spent the rest of the day shopping and being together, it was so much fun.Christmas does bring a lot of family time, but I just love it. I have such an amazing family and I am so grateful for my relationship with each one of them. Having Jake and Brooke in town made our family complete and it was so good to see them both so much.
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It was so good to be home! I can't believe it's already come and gone! I had a lot of fun being with you, and it was nice to finally meet Steve. I can't wait for Hawaii to spend even more time together! Unless, "I'm there, just always there, filming always filming!" ;) I'll work on e-mailing you pictures. It's tricky becuase they are on my laptop and my apartment, and I'm not there at night. I'll work on it, promise! :)
I have a cute picture of you holding up your gift from Jake! I will work on getting that to you! Christmas was fun and I am glad you had a good one-even if it did go by fast!
That all sounds like so much fun and I'm happy that you had such a fun and busy Christmas. You and Brooke look so pretty in the picture of just the 2 of you together.
Jill! I feel like it's been FOREVER! I'm still in Idaho and have limited computer access, but I just wanted to say hello and that I loved reading this post and seeing pictures of your great family. Are you going to be at Church on Sunday? If so, we can plan on a major update session then... Love ya!
Hey Jill! It's been forever and I stumbled across your blog and you look absolutely amazing! It sounds like you're doing well and I hope you have an amazing new year! I was totally reminiscing the other day when I watched "Ice Age" and the first time I saw it at the dollar theater with you and Jessica! haha Anyway, hope you're doing well and I love your blog!
Love to see pictures of you cute girls!!!
Remember none of you would be together if it weren't for me and Papa.
You looks so pretty in all those pics. Seriousy. Wow.
Christmas was so fun. Too bad it all goes by so fast. Luckily we get to hang out all year round. It was fun having the whole crew together.
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