Monday, December 26, 2011

Christmas at Peter's Parents' House

Peter's mom and dad hosted our annual day after Christmas gathering with Nana and Aunt Marian.  We had a great meal of turkey, cornbread, and borscht soup.  Yum yum!  

After our meal, we opened gifts.  Nana opened the first one.

Peter and his mom. :)

Now I know where he gets his silly face making skills from!

Auntie M with the book we got her.

Mom with a gift she opened from Matt and Ruthann - a panini book!  They also got a panini maker to go with it, but I didn't get any pictures of it.

Peter is wearing the stuffing from the box that the panini maker came in.  Apparently, it makes a nice shawl.

Another Tin Tin book to add to his almost complete collection!

This is when Mom was about to hand a gift to Nana and accidentally broke the ribbon.  I love how shocked she was!

Nana starts opening the gift that everyone who was there pitched in on...

We all knew she knew what it was because Aunt Marian had her try it out to make sure she liked it.  Nana pretended she didn't know what it was.   

It was her back massager!  It was so funny because apparently Aunt M interrupted Nana's planned and supposedly rehearsed surprised act!

This big box was for Dad!

We couldn't tell what was in it.

Mom got him a guitar so that he can start playing again!  So cool!

Andrew making some stupid face haha

Me opening a Beth Moore book from Auntie M :)

Dad wrapped Mom's present with a big red bow!  Now I know where Peter gets his wrapping skills from.  :)

He bought her a back support for the car.  She apparently knew what she was getting and tried to pretend she didn't just like Nana did.  Must run in the family.  haha

My lovely in-laws :)

After presents, we had dessert and watched a movie and just hand fun hanging it.  It was nice to get to spend the majority of the day with Nana and Aunt Marian.  Especially since last year was so quick with the snow that came in.  


Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas at Mima's

Christmas Day at Mima's! 

Chatting over a delicious meal :)

Siblings!  Sorry Bill - didn't mean to cut you out of this one.  Peter took it!

Mima brought us a canister from Italy that matches the sugar bowl and creamer that we bought as our souvenir on our trip last summer!

It's very difficult to get a normal picture of these two.  At least it's a nice one of Andrew. 

My lovely in-laws :)
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 Even Uncle Michael made a surprise appearance!
 


Saturday, December 24, 2011

Christmas Eve



Christmas Eve was spent at my parents' house again this year.  I love traditions like crab cakes and stuffed shells for dinner, homemade cookies for dessert, unwrapping presents in a bit of chaos, and ending the night with "It's a Wonderful Life".  This year did not disappoint.  Except for being too tired to finish the movie, but that's typical due to our 5 hour drive Christmas morning.

 My mom's tree with presents "under" it:


The awesome gift basket that I received from Erik and Nicole.  It held a sherpa blanket, lots of chai tea, some candy, a travel mug, champagne, and an ornament that lights up.  :)

My lovely parents:


Erik and Nicole:


The newlyweds Mark and Jackie.  With Christian, too, of course!

My crazy sister!


Ashley and Drew don't do pictures well.  It usually takes 20 tries for them to both be paying attention, smiling, and looking at the camera.  I didn't have that kind of time so this was the best I got haha.

Me and the hubster :)


Christian is obviously excited about his gift from us.  It's an Angry Birds shirt that says "This is what awesome looks like!"