Christmas 2022

I can't believe that Christmas has come and gone. After all those weeks of build up and now we are onto a new year. Since I wasn't around much after Christmas, I am just now getting to sharing our Christmas Eve, Christmas day and one snap from the day after. 

Christmas Eve was spent making breakfast, then making pizzelles, getting ready and having dinner at my in-laws house.  By the way, the pizzelle maker was awesome along with the pizzelle recipe. It takes more time since there is only one press, but they cook within two minutes and was super easy to use. I made two batches which was enough to bring to my in-laws, our family and my parents.

Here is a photo dump of Christmas Eve.

My FIL's neighbor told the girls that you must place water on the roof for the reindeer, so my FIL set it up on a ladder and made a sign with some tape.

After we got home, the girls wrote letters to Santa (asking for his signature), put out a carrot, two cookies (I forgot to snap a photo before Rory had his) and some holiday nog.

The girls got this sign from my in-laws. At their house, we put Merry Christmas Santa and then I changed it to this (from Santa).

We went to bed pretty late as we were watching a show and had a lot to do after the girls went to bed.

Christmas morning the girls were up bright and early which was different from the previous year where they slept in. We got everything ready (ie coffee and the fire going) and then we opened gifts.

These are the earrings I got for them.

I didn't get a ton of photos of us opening gifts, but I did get a long video of the girls reading their note from their elf and taking Christmas morning all in. 

After opening gifts, we put some things away and started breakfast. I had made a breakfast casserole the day before and I just popped it in the oven. Sutton had waited too long to eat and wasn't feeling well. Once we ate, she was back to herself though. 

Rory and I enjoyed some champagne with brunch.

Then we got ready and headed down to my parents house for Christmas dinner and opening presents.

Rory got some Kittle socks that he was super stoked on.

We had a traditional Christmas dinner with my parents, my sister, BIL and my nephew plus us four. We haven't done that in years and it was so awesome. We enjoyed some homemade egg nog from my BIL, some mulled wine from my parents and played with my nephew all evening. 

Then we headed home to be with Walter.

Walter's new sweater.

One of my presents from Rory.

We put more gifts away after we got home and then the girls went down as we had another big day the next day.

We went to my uncle and aunts (by marriage) house in Truckee and had brunch plus sledding, dinner and hang out time. It was a lot of fun!

And that's a wrap on Christmas 2022. How was your Christmas weekend?