How was your Christmas?

We had a wonderful Christmas! Jonathan had the flu and felt horrible on Christmas morning, so he mostly laid on my lap while I opened his presents for him. Because of that, we don't have very many pictures, but that's ok.

We had everyone over for dinner at our house on Christmas Eve. My parents, Jeremy's dad & step-mom, Uncle Justin, his girlfriend Laura, Aunt Kayla, and her boyfriend David - who I think Kaylin has a crush on! There were 12 of us and it was lots of fun. We had lots of yummy food and swapped presents. Later that night Matt & Chera came over and we did our gifts with them as well. Then it was time to put the kids to bed and wrap gifts. We made sure to put out gingerbread cookies for Santa that Kaylin and Mimi made, carrots for the reindeer, as well as Reindeer food that we mixed up real quick from oats, colored sugar & cinnamon. Kaylin mixed up a batch at school, but she had left it at Mimi & Papa's house accidently. The kids were in bed and asleep before 9. While that is normal for Jonathan, his bedtime is 7:30, it showed us how tired Kaylin was. Jeremy and I quickly wrapped the gifts from us, then set out the gifts from Santa (those aren't wrapped!) and then Jeremy went over to Matt's house to play some rockband and I climbed in bed for sleep, as I felt horrible.

Before I climbed in bed on Christmas Eve I mixed up some dough for cinnamon rolls for breakfast Christmas morning. It was really easy! I just put all the ingredients in my bread machine, turned it on and it did all the kneading and rising work for me. When it finished I rolled it out and put the butter, cinnamon and sugar on it, sliced it into rolls and then stuck it in the fridge to wait until morning. I think we are going to make this our traditional breakfast. When I was growing up my mom always did a breakfast casserole but for some reason Jeremy is not a fan. Not just of the family recipe, but of breakfast casseroles in general, so I was on a mission to find something else. The cinnamon rolls seemed to work!

The kids slept until a little past 8 am! Can you believe it?! Kaylin must have been tired, as she slept almost 12 hours. I stuck the cinnamon rolls in the oven to bake while we opened presents. By the time we were done they were as well and we all enjoyed them while watching the Disney Christmas parade. Then we napped on and off all morning/afternoon - we were all feeling under the weather, except for Jeremy who brought it home in the first place, he was already healthy again.

Kaylin has asked me to take her ice skating over the school break, so we'll be doing that one day this week. I haven't been ice skating in many many years and Kaylin has never been. I hope I can keep us in an upright position! We were going to leave Jonathan with Mimi & Papa and have Jeremy come with us, but he says he's never been ice skating and I really don't think I can teach/hold up two people when I haven't been in so long, so we're just going to go with the two of us on a day Jeremy is at work.