Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Christmas 2010

This Christmas was an especially great one. It was a Christmas of firsts, Rob and I got to spend part of the holiday weekend with both of our families, Santa was very good to us, and it even snowed.

Christmas Eve morning was spent with Ann, John and Tom at Rob's mom's house. We exchanged gifts and had a nice brunch. That afternoon we drove to my parent's house in Summerville, SC, which was about a 4 1/2 hour trip. We arrived a little after 6pm, and had our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of party food and appetizers, took pictures by the tree and opened 1 gift.

Christmas morning we all slept in until 9am (even Miss Roxanne who usually gets up at 6/7am!), took our time exchanging gifts, and had a later breakfast afterwards. The rest of the day was spent playing Bananagrams, playing ball in the back yard with Roxanne, and just hanging out with each other. My Mom made a delish dinner of beef tenderloin with a cranberry sauce, and our traditional napa cabbage salad and cheesy potatoes. And we all ate more cookies/mini cheesecakes than we care to remember.

It meant a lot to Rob and I to finally spend our first Christmas together. Waking up with him and opening our stockings and gifts on Christmas morning and eating Christmas dinner together was much better than a "Merry Christmas, Babe" phone call.



It was also Roxanne's first Christmas, so of course we took a lot of pictures, gave her more treats than she should have had, and video taped her 'opening' her stocking. Rob and I both agree she is one of the best things that has happened to us this year. She is such a cute, smart and funny dog, and of course now we can't picture our lives without her!

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