We celebrated Christmas a total of three times this past holiday season. We had an early Christmas on the 22nd at our apartment, then the next day we headed up to Oregon to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas with the Jones family. Our third Christmas was in Utah with Brittany's family.
This is our Christmas tree all decked out for our Christmas at home.
Here's Chris following his string to his present.
Our strings were not quite as elaborate this year (they stayed in the apartment), Santa must have overslept and forgotten about our early "Christmas" morning.
We opened most of our presents, but saved a few to take with us and open on Christmas morning.
A puzzle of New York City! The Payne family pulls out a puzzle every holiday season, and I was missing out this year, so I got my own puzzle to put together.
Chris got a new racquetball racket. Now he can teach me how to play :)
I saw this and thought it would help Chris through the busy season at work. Its a calendar titled, "Jobs Worse Than Mine."
Giving out plates of holiday treats is a lot of fun and something both of our families do every year. We thought it would be fun to make our own treats/plates. We naturally had to taste test the cookies/treats to make sure they were edible, and if any of the cookies broke or got smashed we took it upon ourselves to eat those too. You can't give away damaged cookies...
