The Holidays

We had a wonderful Christmas and a fun New Year's Eve. I had the bright idea of starting a new Christmas tradition this year. Instead of rushing back and forth between the Udell and Nelson homes on Christmas Eve and Christmas day, I decided to plan it where we would get lots of time at each house. We celebrated with the whole Nelson bunch on Dec. 23 and then stayed the night and pretended it was like Christmas Eve. Then woke up on the 24th and did our Christmas. We had an awesome breakfast and then opened our stockings. We played games and watched a movie. Then it was onto the Udell family for the evening of Christmas Eve. We had a big dinner together of the traditional potatoe soup and oyster soup. Then we watched the movie, The Nativity Story together. Jesse tuckered out before the movie. Then we spent the night and woke up the next morning to do Christmas with the Udells. It was fun to watch Jesse play in all of the wrapping. Then we had a Christmas brunch with Trish's famous cinnamon roll Christmas tree. Yummy. We then spent the day playing Rock Band 2 and playing board games. I hope we can carry this tradition out each year so we get plenty of time both places without rushing back and forth. Here are a few pics from the holidays.