Christmas 2010

Before Christmas, Martha, Corey and I decorated their entire front room with all of their Christmas decorations. It was a lot of fun because we set up the Christmas village, used all of the nutcrackers, put up the tree and the mini tree and decorated them super cute. It was a lot of fun. Corey and I tried to set up the electric train, but it was temperamental so we played with it for about an hour and then put it away.

The three days before Christmas I was in the kitchen all day baking cookies. I was really excited about making hand made Christmas cookies for everyone. I made Mexican wedding cake cookies, muddy buddies, snicker-doodles, and oatmeal raisin. I bought cute Christmas tins and decorative shiny paper and wrapped all of the cookies to give away. It was a lot of fun. I love to bake :)

Corey and I had a very busy Christmas this year. He worked from 6-10 am that morning and then I picked him up and we went to Paul and Bonnie's for a ham and egg breakfast. It was really yummy and we just hung out for a while talking. Corey bought me a Kindle and I bought him a new pair of Wolverine Boots. We bought Paul and Bonnie "Battle of the Sexes" and they made us funny Christmas cards. We then went to Brian and Sherry's house at one for lunch with Martha, Dee Dee and Pokey, Corey's grandpa and his cousins. We ate the Best ham and had lots of food :) It was a lot of fun. His grandpa gave us each a nice gift and it was fun getting together and seeing everyone. We went to my Dad and Cami's house at 4 to open gifts and say hi. Jeremy, Lexi, Ariana and Ayden all liked the gifts we gave them. Jeremy had a few puzzles that took forever to solve and Lexi liked her scented soft socks. It was fun watching the two little kids go crazy with their unwrapping of gifts. By that time Corey and I were pretty exhausted, and went back to Martha's house to open our last set of gifts and to eat dinner :) His mom was asleep when we got there, she had a busy day too. We then spent the rest of the night happily sitting and relaxing :) It was a fun and busy Christmas.

Tip fast asleep in the snow :)

Building a Gingerbread Train

On Christmas Eve, Martha had bought a gingerbread train kit and she, Corey and I put it together. It was a lot of fun because there were a ton of little candies rolling all over the table and the frosting tasted horrible so when you accidentally got some on your finger and licked it off it was nasty. We had a lot of fun. We were all eating the candies as we were putting them on and we had structural problems while we were making it so we constantly had to grab the train before it fell over, but it all came together in the end :)