Christmas in Missouri
If you are our family, and thought we were pulling the old "we aren't coming home for Christmas, but then actually come home " trick, well we are sorry! We really did stay in Missouri. Its not like we didn't want to come home, realistically, we just couldn't. So sorry if we didn't come through! We sure missed ya'll!
We still wanted to make it the best Christmas ever, so this is what we did.
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| We made a sweet (pun intended) gingerbread house with Jesse, Kim, Rach and Leif |
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| We went to the ghetto mall and Avery rode the train |
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| We watched a lot of people's pets Bruce the fish |
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Kijo the dog, sorry about Avery Kijo. She just couldn't help herself.
I have to brag and say we had zero casualties
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| We had an amazing Christmas Eve dinner with the Johnson's, it was the first ham we ever cooked! |
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We opened up our traditional PJ's. I picked out Trav's, and he picked out mine. We both randomly went to Aeropostle. Can you tell?
We wore them all night, and then for the whole next day!
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| We woke up to a very white Christmas... it stormed all night long! |
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| Santa remembered that we stayed in Missouri and visited us, well mostly Avery |
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| We watched Avery open her many presents |
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| She loved them all and wanted to play with them all. We had to open presents in shifts. Our kid is spoiled! Thanks for all the nice gifts! |
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| We ate cinnamon rolls and ham and cheese omelets for breakfast |
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| We had a village monster cause havoc on the local Christmas village |
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We kept a Christmas tradition.
Every year we buy an ornament that represents a big event of our year. Our first year was a "just married" ornament. Our second year was a "Kansas city chiefs" ornament because we just moved. Last year was a "baby's first Christmas" ornament. This year was kind of hard because nothing really spectacular happened. When Travis saw this ornament, we had to get it because it reminded us that this year, we made our first vegetable garden... ... it was kind of an uneventful year, but sometimes that's OK!
In conclusion, we had a cozy little Christmas. We really missed a lot of people, but made the best out of the situation. We love and appreciate our good friends we have out here who also couldn't go home. They are basically our Missouri family.
Merry Christmas!
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6 comments:
i am glad you had a great christmas!! you look so happy!! have a wonderful new year!! love you Millie!!
And we really missed you three as well. Maybe next year we will be able to say, "the four of you..." you know, a playmate for Avery!
OK, so we missed you tremendously. And on another note, that is quite possibly the ugliest gingerbread house I have ever seen. But I still maintain that Avery is the cutest thing I have ever seen, so I hope I can be forgiven for the diss on the g house:)
Looks like you guys had fun! By the way, love Avery's stocking :)
I love the ornament; that's a great tradition. I love all the pics.
I missed you too!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to see you!
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