Merry Christmas!

We had a nice time Christmas Eve sitting in church with my family, a tradition that I have had since childhood...After we returned home we all opened up our Christmas Eve PJs, a tradition Joe and I started the first Christmas we were married...Christmas morning after the kids opened presents from Santa, Joe's parents and my parents along with my Nana came over for brunch and another extremely large round of gift giving began, a tradition that started just two years ago after we finally moved into a house.

Since Christmas day we have pretty much laid low. Owen has had a nasty cold so we have stayed home and rested. Days spent playing Wii, reading Tale of Desperaux with Joey, finishing Twilight which my 6th grade girls insisted I read (it was good), knitting, playing Thomas, riding bikes (I don't think what Joey is doing is even close to being called riding, but at least he is trying...thanks Dad). Saturday night I did get to go to a rocking concert with my friend Alex. We saw the Robert Randolph Family band at the Electric Factory and it was pretty amazing. Joe also got to go watch the Eagles crush Dallas on Sunday so we both got a chance to "get out." Hopefully we'll get a chance to "get out" together soon. Last night we had a fun visit with Rick, Becky and the kids; Erin, Bryan and Alannah, playing games at Dave and Busters and catching up. So nice to spend time with them...always wishing we lived closer.