Canche Chronicles: Our Canche Christmas

FRIDAY, our first full day in Michigan, was started with sleeping in. Haley really outdid herself by sleeping in until after ten! Considering she went to bed at 7:45, she almost slept fifteen hours. By the time we had woken up and taken showers, it was almost lunchtime. We ate a late breakfast and then later had a late lunch. Sarah was not feeling well so she and Abuelita went to the doctor for a diagnosis. In the meantime Haley and Emily played with Aunt Chris who arrived in the morning. Aunt Chris is house sitting for a lady who lives in Grand Rapids so she drove in for the day.

After lunch we left Haley and Emily with Abuelita and Aunt Christ and Aunt Sarah while David and I went downtown to do some shopping. We were not gone long and didn't find anything so when we got back we went to Wal-mart with Abuelita to check out the after Christmas sales. I found a star for the top of our tree next year. We made it back to the house in time to have our family Christmas!

Haley was getting tired by that point so we put her to bed and opened all of the gifts except hers. The theme for presents this year was used or homemade. Most people went the used route and we actually made out pretty good. We even decided to go with the same theme for this coming year so if you know of any good yard sales just let me know. It took over two hours to get through all of the presents, Christmas is not for the faint of heart.

After presents we woke up Haley because she had been sleeping three hours and it was after five. Then we had a delicious dinner of pork and vegetables which Abuelita had made in the crockpot. For dessert we had an assortment of cheesecake slices, they were amazing. We spent our 'Christmas' evening talking and hanging out together. After a while David, Aunt Sarah, Abuelito, and Abuelita went for a walk outside in the snow. They pulled Haley along with them in the sled. David said she really seemed to like it, she never tried to get off. Haley got to stay up fairly late because she had napped so long but she still had barely been awake four hours when she went to bed.

Haleyism:

Haley loves to play with Isabella, she calls her 'Isa.'

Emilyism:

Emily and Bennett are the younger cousins but they are also the bigger cousins. Isa and Haley are both small for their ages.