Christmas Festivities

WOW! We have had an extremely busy and exciting few days getting ready for and celebrating Christmas. On christmas Eve we went to Todd and Claudia's house to get together ad have dinner (thanks Todd for the delicious meal!)

On Christmas Eve I made a gingerbread house, oatmeal raisin cookies, gingerbread cookies for our Christmas day cookie exchange, then Gil and I made natilla and bunelos to take to Todd and Claudia's house.

On Christmas day, we got together with Gil's family at our house to have brunch and let the kids open their presents and to finally unveil each others secret santa. We had such a fun time trying to guess who was our secret santa. My secret santa was Claudia and she got me an ice cream/sorbet maker!! I love it! I am going to try to make an ice cream for New Years Eve to share with everyone. We then played Jenga and enjoyed each others company.

In the evening we went to my dad's house (Gary) and my mom, brother and sister were there so we could open presents and hang out and eat dinner. We did not do secret santa, but we got great gifts from everyone!This is my favorite time of year because everyone takes time to get together with family and just hang out!

I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas and hopefully you will have a safe and happy new year!

Here are some pictures of the Christmas events! Enjoy the slide show below...