Our First Christmas

We had our first Christmas this year! Obviously.

It was a happy one that I'll be glad to remember in many years.

We spent the 23rd with my dad and the 24th with my mom and grandparents. That was different for obvious reasons but was better than expected. It is good to be with family during the holidays, despite the circumstance. Sadly, I don't think anyone, including myself, took any pictures. Now that is a real first.

On Christmas day Brad and I stayed at our apartment. Before we were married we decided that we would spend the days leading up to and the days following Christmas with our parents and families but that Christmas day would be with just our family. We started the tradition this year, even though the purpose if it is so that our kids will always have Christmas morning at our house. That is a tradition Brad & I both grew up with that we want our kids to experience as well.

Here are the pictures we took on our first Christmas...

I can't look at this picture without LOLing. I love it.

A few days before Christmas we went on a Christmas date to the Gaylord to see the ICE exhibit. I've wanted to go for a long time and it was worth the wait!



Someone forgot to do their job of charging the camera so these are the 2 pics we got before it died.

Then, as tradition would have it, we had besties Christmas! This year the husbands got to join. Lucky guys.

We went to dinner, had a gift exchange, and ate desserts. Apparently it wasn't enough entertainment for the guys though. They spent the evening making "homemade ice cream" out of peppermint coffee creamer, sugar cookie coffee creamer, vanilla, and vanilla ice cream. The girls spent the rest of the evening laughing at their stupidity creativity.  



And, a month later, that sums it up.