Christmas Morning & Day!

{Picture heavy post-consider yourself warned!}

Our first Christmas in the new house was pretty wonderful in my opinion! We started the day out not too early, at around 9am. We cooked breakfast, ate a little, then started opening presents. The morning was perfect for me. Here is the breakdown in picture form:

The tree on Christmas morning...

Breakfast waiting to be eaten. Hashbrown casserole (old family recipe), cream cheese and sausage pinwheels, and sticky bun breakfast ring. All so delicious!

Mom & Dad starting to open gifts :)

One of the nice gifts I was so excited about. I love Wood Wick!

For a Florida boy, Hunter was pretty excited about opening snowboarding pants as a Christmas gift!

The hubsters big gift was this saw. I was very proud of myself for not letting it slip to him and also for hiding it so very well. Fun fact: I actually ordered this online and had it delivered to his sisters house so he would not see it! He was excited!

After opening gifts and trying to corral the wrapping paper to one area, we had a little photo shoot:

Louie on Christmas morning. He was not too sure about all the noise and commotion but he did really well!

He got so many nice gifts from Santa and other pups in our family in Florida. This sweater was the first one we opened. So cute!

Look at his brown eyes, I just love them!

"Please pick me up, Mommy!"

The whole family :) The little white dog belongs to my parents. His name is Bristol. Lets just say that he and Louie did NOT become friends over the week.

Our little family on Christmas morning...

Me & Mom in our Mickey and Minnie Santa hats, love it!

We spent the rest of the day cooking and mostly eating...we ate so much delicious food! Our menu included ham, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, baked macaroni and cheese and corn. Desert was a delicious key lime pie. After eating half our body weight we went for a little drive to see the covered bridge in Manchester. We did a quick tour of our town that included a stop at Stephen's sisters house while his parents were there. After that we returned home...can you guess what we did?

If you guess EAT, you are right! :) We ate again and finished the night with a family Christmas movie and Louie snuggled up between me and the hubster:

So sweet!

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night.  An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.  This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”-Luke 2: 8-12