On the 13th, we got to drive through a wicked snow storm, making the trip an hour longer than usual, to Evanston to celebrate Christmas with Will's mom and stepdad and their family. It was a lot of fun to see everyone after so long! I of course forgot my camera...next time! :)
Christmas eve we spent at the DeMann family party and had a lot of fun playing with our dollar tree dart guns...which has become a tradition thanks to Bryce and Mary. They buy every grandkid (meaning there's about 40 guns total) a gun from the dollar store and we shoot each other all night long after all the gifts have been exchanged. I decided this year that I didn't want to buy everyone some lame gift that goes in the garbage from the dollar store, and decided instead to have my dad read the Christmas Orange story and hand out slices of chocolate oranges to everyone. It is an awesome story, if you haven't ever read it, I suggest it.
Christmas morning we went to my parents house at 7 AM for presents and breakfast...everyone's schedules are busy, so that's when it ends up working to have everyone over. After Will and I went home and got busy making dinner. His dad and stepmom came down from Rock Springs for the weekend. His brother and his family came over and it was so nice to have them here! I made Roast, Potatoes and Carrots and was pretty impressed with myself...the one thing I would've changed is how long everything actually cooked, we ended up eating later than I thought we would so everything cooked about 2 hours longer than it should have, but since it was my first time make this I can't complain! :)
For Christmas this year I wanted a new table and chairs and a new coffee table, so Will and I spent a lot of time searching and found ones that we loved. We were very excited to have enough seats to fit everyone on Christmas and on chairs that aren't broken. We used our China for the first time on Christmas and everything looked beautiful! Here's a few pics from that week.
My last post I mentioned getting new bedroom furniture and had an overwhelming response of people wanting me to post a picture...Here it is, and I dedicate it to my biggest fans. :)
I was going to take a picture of each piece, but decided no one cares that much...so you get the gist of what everything looks like here, right? Plus everything is so crammed into the room that I can't get a good angle on any one item, anyway.
