We had a wonderful Christmas in Illinois and are thankful that we weren't traveling this year in the Christmas Blizzard.
Christmas Eve we lounged around most of the day, watched the Polar Express, and did some prep work for supper. We had a snack of smoked salmon and shrimp before going to the candlelight Christmas Eve service at St. Timothy. After a beautiful service we came home and had a candlelight meal of oyster stew, cornish game hens, and rice pilaf on our China (the kids didn't break any). Followed by dessert of Norwegian goodies. Kyra very impatiently waited to open her gifts. Kyleigh could care less about opening gifts, she just wanted to play with everyone else's or sit on the boxes. We all got spoiled this year with gifts.
Christmas Day we opened gifts from Santa and then spent a lazy morning playing with all our new toys. No one got dressed until it was time to go to the Padilla's for our Christmas Day meals. We had a great meal and a great visit and then came home and lounged some more.
Today it's back to the grindstone. I'm going to tackle one of the kids' room and Mark is going to start staining doors. He has finished staining and varnishing all the trim work.
Have a great weekend.
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