Christmas is usually a very laid back experience in our house. No one really takes pictures during the opening of gifts so I don’t have any pictures to share. I;m sure that will change when we have little ones of our own though.
We are all not early risers so Christmas morning for us is usually around 11 AM or noon. Before my husband and I went out to gather around the Christmas tree we opened our stockings in our room. His family doesn’t do stockings, but mine did when I was growing up and I wanted to continue it for us. We opened our stockings and I found my rosie posie necklace from the Etsy shop The Polka Dot Posie along with a very cute pair of earrings that Jen sent along as a nice little surprise. I also got my annual Wizard of Oz ornament. This was something that my parents started when I first began collecting Oz stuff and I love that my husband has continued this little tradition. We always put one of those candy cane shapes filled with candy in our stockings so a few days before Christmas we always go pick out our stocking candy. I got red and green Sprees and Nathan got Starbursts. Anyways, in his stocking I put a DVD that he had been wanting, the Hatfields and McCoys, that was on History channel earlier this year. I also gave him a box of Slim Jims. He loves those.
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| My rosie posie necklace |
One of my favorite gifts was from my sister in law and her family. I posted it already on my Wedding Shadowbox post. It is so beautiful and I love that she took the time to make it for us. Another one of my favorite gifts is from my mom. She gave me a recipe binder with little scrapbook type pages for the dividers and recipe cards. She filled out some of them with some of my favorite recipes that she made when I was younger. I am going to send the other cards to family and friends to get some of their favorite recipes handwritten.
Nathan got me the complete series of Dawson’s Creek. It was one of my favorite shows and I can’t wait to watch it. He also got me the last two season of One Tree Hill. I haven’t seen season 9 yet so if you are an OTH fan DON’T TELL ME HOW IT ENDS!! My favorite gift from him was the Coach wristlet. He got it for me because I have a Coach purse, but there are times that I don’t really like carrying an actual purse around. Like when we go somewhere that I really won’t need it. (When we were at Jekyll Island in July, I put my purse in the hotel room closet and didn’t go anywhere with it. We had the do not disturb sign on the door the whole weekend. You know? wedding weekend!) I have wanted a full size bottle of Paris Hilton’s Heiress perfume, but he has not been able to find one, so he got me Jennifer Anniston perfume instead. It smells almost exactly like Heiress. I love it so much.
I got Nathan the Ken Burns Civil War documentary. He loves the civil war and has actually been wanting it for a very long time. He could only find it for $100, but I found it on sale. He loved it and can’t wait to watch it. I think my favorite gift that I got him was the Daisy Red Ryder BB gun. I was so excited to give it to him because he loves the movie A Christmas Story and tries to watch all 24 hours of it every Christmas. (Funny little trivia. A Christmas Story came out on November 18, 1983. The day after my husband was born.) It is one of his favorite movies. I got him some paper targets to go with it. He opened them and looked at me like I had two heads. He didn’t understand why I gave them to him. I told him to open his big gift then. He understood then. He loved it.
We had a dinner of ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and other things like that. It was very good. I don’t usually eat ham unless it is very thinly sliced, but the ham we had was a caramel apple glazed ham and it was very very good.
I hope you had a great Christmas with your families. It truly is a time to spend with those you love. Have a safe New Year’s and please do not drink and drive.
