Christmas 2010

For Christmas Eve, we had Adam's family over at our house. Ashley (Adam's sister) had requested I make my chicken enchiladas. I was happy to accept her request. We had a lot of fun! We ate dinner first and then unwrapped presents. Afterwards we watched Despicable Me. I absolutely LOVE that movie!!! It was fun to host the party, but very exhausting. I was cleaning for two days straight!

Christmas was so fun this year!!!! Logan was old enough to open presents by himself (for the most part). We slept until about 8:30 and then we opened our gifts to each other before Logan woke up. Logan woke up as we were finishing up with our gifts. We then got Logan up and got him dressed. We took him to the tree and he started picking them up. We had to start the ripping and then he would get the rest. He had fun opening his presents! He got a good haul this year!!!!

My mom had made all of us kids a quilt this year. They were all beautiful!!! If you want to see the other four quilts, you can visit her blog. It's the link "Marianne" on the right side of the blog. I love mine and Adam's! The whiter squares are a mickey mouse pattern. She got the fabric from some pajama pants in Disneyland! Which makes it even more special! I LOVE Disneyland and I'm glad I have a part of it on my quilt!
After Adam, Logan and I were done opening presents at our house, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Ross's house. I'm a little upset that I didn't get pictures from there.... Logan got a pillow pet from them! He loves his pillow pet! We hung out there until it was time to go to my parents house for dinner.

At my parents house, we ate and unwrapped presents. Logan had a lot of fun trying to steal everyone else's toys. He loves his toys, but the other kids weren't playing with his toys. Hee hee! He wanted what everyone else was playing with!

On December 26th, we went to my Aunt Laurie's house for our Christmas party with my mom's side of the family. I was asked to make a dessert for the party. So Sunday morning I slaved away on a made-from-scratch cake. Frosting and all! I left it on the counter so we could just pick it up and go. Well, we were about 15 minutes away from our house on our way to the party, when I realize, WE DON'T HAVE THE CAKE!! So we turn around to go get it. When we got home, Adam went inside to get it. Well, our dog, Riku, had gotten to it before us! I was so upset!!! I slaved all morning on that cake for it to be ruined! We ended up going to WalMart to get cookies. Yes, I know it was a Sunday, but what else could I do? We wouldn't have had enough dessert for everyone without them.

It was a little weird not having my grandpa there for the first time. We did an exchange gift last year and my grandpa got a hand made pen from my Uncle Wayne. This year, Wayne made some more pens like that. When it was unwrapped, I sort of lost it. I was trying to blink away my tears like crazy! I got it under control, but the memory was just too much. I miss my grandpa so much and wish he could've been there with us. I'm sure he was in spirit, but I wanted to have his hug and be called "Julie Bug" one more time.

All in all, this Christmas had to have been my favorite Christmas of my life so far! Thank you to my family and Adam's family for such a wonderful holiday! Next year will be even more fun I'm sure!!