Christmas is over...

Crazy how you run around and spend an entire month trying to get everything baked, bought, wrapped, & taken to the right party, and then BAM, it's over. That's an awful lot of preparation for one day...or for most of us 2-3 days by the time you hit the in-laws, the outlaws, and your own family party.

Christmas day we woke up to several inches of snow and opted to not try to drive our rear wheel drive van thru it and instead listened to church online and then all went sledding. Our oldest built a ramp out of a picnic table and they all took turns trying to break their necks...I may have tried just once. In the afternoon, my brother in law came and plowed our drive so off to grandma's house we went for the Sauder Christmas. Then later that night it was back home to make snow ice cream. It was a really nice Christmas!

Yesterday, after church, we turned down yet another dinner invite, we grabbed a few groceries and some very important paintball accessories and then came home and did nothing for a few hours...and it felt great. I think we are partied out....of course that doesn't stop the party from wandering over to our house anyway. A few nieces and my sister showed up to use the hot tub then play some card games and the kinect. That's the big gift this year and it's quite the work out. This game gets you up and moving! I only played a few games on it and I am SORE!!! I'm excited to play for 1/2 hour everyday and get my heart rate up...not that my morning walk w/my 78 year old mom wasn't doing it for me:)

Today I've got a few orders to mail out, and then I've got to start digging thru the wrapping paper and boxes to find my house...it's here somewhere.

Here's where I would normally post all the cute pics of the gift opening, sledding, etc. IF I had taken them....