Christmas 2008

Ok...so this might be a long one due to the amount of activities we've been involved in this Christmas. For starters we tackled our Christmas shopping at the last minute and in the quickest time imaginable.....thanks to the Outlets in Smithfield. I guess it's a sign of the times, but we were able to pick up a great deal of bargains and finished up most of our shopping on Sunday.

We started our Christmas journey at Ashley's Dad's house for lunch on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the Snowman decorations Mary!!

Ashley and I shared our 1st Christmas together. We searched for a while to find just the right "Our 1st Christmas" ornament and I finally asked her to make one just for us. It looked just like the bulletin board at our wedding.


Ashley's Grandma earned a day out of the Laurels and everyone was thrilled to have her home for Christmas. I dropped Ashley off at her mom's house and helped get Grandma into the van for a short trip down Aversboro road. We are so grateful for the generosity of the VP folks for providing the transportation. After a huge breakfast spread of eggs, sausage, deer sausage?, apple/peach turnover, casseroles, etc...we sat around catching up. I didn't have much to catch up on, so I headed to the computer to check out/cleanup/ and provide a health check. I've found it helps decrease the help desk calls during the day from Ashley's Mom :)) ** Just kidding!!!!

We also visited Ma-Ma for a bit and then back to the house for our Christmas steak dinner. Haven't ever had that on Christmas...I'm going to like this tradition.

We got up early on Friday and headed north to Williamsburg to see my folks and family. My brother and sister's families were already there and after lunch we had our Christmas together. Thanks for all the gifts!!. We exchanged our cookies for the annual Reffit Cookie Swap- this is too sweet to miss!

We took the kids to the park on Saturday and visited mom at her shop. So many Christmas trees...and not to mention a whole tree full of elves and faires....yikes.
The girls made homemade marshmellows & watched an old chick flick together. The marshmellows were really good!

We'll be going back Sunday afternoon...but so glad to see our family again :)

Check out all our Christmas memories. Thanks for a great Christmas!