Canche Chronicles: Christmas!

Sorry I have gotten behind on here. One of my Christmas presents to myself was taking a short break from the blog. It backfired bigtime. So here I am on catch-up, first off: Christmas day.

We had been asked to sleep in on Christmas day so that the Brust family could have their own Christmas. Actually, everyone just pretty much assumed that we would sleep in so they had their own Christmas and then got woken up around 9:45, we were still sleeping. We came downstairs where Kelsey and Calla showed us the highlights of their Christmas and then we all sat down to a beautiful breakfast Mimi had prepared. She had an egg and ham casserole, french toast casserole with blueberries, oranges prepared special in the oven (brown sugar on top and butter then broiled, they were amazing), sticky bun, and our choice of tea, coffee, or hot chocolate. It was really wonderful. Haley barely ate anything, lame.

After breakfast the Fentons and Mountzs came and we skyped Aunt Rin. It was so fun to see Aunt Rin, even if it was via skype. Haley kissed the screen when she saw her, it was really precious. As soon as I put Emily up to the screen she started smiling, she's already in love! We were skyping with Aunt Rin because Kelly and Josh were going to do their big reveal for the new baby due in May. Kelly had made cupcakes and had hidden an M&M in one of them to indicate the baby's gender. We all had to eat our cupcakes to see if we had the M&M and what color it was. Jonathan's cupcake had the M&M and it was red: another girl! We were all pretty excited about it because I think most of us were rooting for a girl, most of the girls anyways. After the reveal we talked to Rin for a while longer and then we started taking showers and getting ready for the day. The Fentons and Mountz went back home and then arrived back to Mimi's house around three.

In the meantime David took Calla, Kelsey, and Haley outside to play in the snow. This was Haley's first legit look at snow so we were pretty excited to get her reaction. We only had an inch or two but she seemed to enjoy it.

Playing in the woods, Kelsey did not last too long out there, maybe because she needed to zipper up her coat!

Making tracks in the snow

All bundled up

Found an old pumpkin I guess

I think she liked it!

When everyone had reconvened around 3:30, we finally started the family gift-opening. This process ended up lasting 2 1/2 hours! I'm not sure why it took this long except that there were just a lot of gifts. It's not like we were stopping to examine each one either. Some of the highlights were: a framed cross stitch made by Mimi, a season of duck dynasty for David, a kitchenaid mixer from Mimi!!!!!, a magnedoodle for Haley, and a place setting of China from some of my sisters and Caleb. Overall it was a very exciting Christmas.

After the gifts we sat down and had our Christmas dinner. Mom had made ham, scalloped potatoes, corn casserole, broccoli, and rolls. Carly and I helped with the corn casserole and the broccoli and Kimi brought a huge and delicious salad. Grandma brought a jello salad and it was a good thing she did because that was the only thing that Haley ate. The kids got pretty crazy during dinner, it turned into what my Pop-pop would have called, ' a controlled riot.' By the end I think a lot of us were wondering why we had children in the first place, haha.

When dinner was over we put those kids to bed and said goodbye to the Fentons and the Mountzs. Then, as I recall, we played a game of Settlers and I think David won, I can't remember. It was a great Christmas, although we did miss Aunt Rin all day. Thank you to Mimi for making it so special!

Haleyism:

Haley is pretty good at opening presents, she is pretty slow at it though.

Emilyism:

Emily is completely incapable of opening presents, maybe next year.