I am always impressed by the folks who are able to take beautiful holiday pictures with everyone looking smiley and their dog sitting nicely and looking at the camera (ahem... Meg and Matt Herr!) For us... it's not so simple...
Ah well. There's always next year!
Since we travel to both of our families during the holiday season, Travis and I do our "own" Christmas at home before the rush of Christmas begins. For the past couple of years we've introduced stockings in lieu of a large gift. I think it's fun to have multiple things to open - you can really take your time and make an evening out of it.
This year, we celebrated Christmas together in Grand Rapids starting with dinner at our local Indian place. Yum! We enjoyed a couple of martinis and some delicious grub.
We then headed home to open our stockings! They looked so pretty sitting on the mantle...
It's so much fun to opening gifts together! I got Travis Chevy Chase's Christmas Vacation -- it's a tradition to watch it every Christmas at his parents' house.
I got a new wallet and some candles....
Travis LOVES olives... especially in bloody mary's!
And Bella just loves the wrapping paper... : )
Travis' reading library is now stocked for 2010...
Woah... not sure what this is all about...
My loot...
Trav's loot...
But wait! Santa came by a little early and dropped off a gift for BOTH of us! Wasn't that nice of him?
And Bella and the cats were thoughtful enough to get us something as well.... aw....
We finished the night with popcorn and a flick... (I was REALLY excited about my new cozy socks!)
I hope that you and your spouse carve out a little holiday alone-time for each other this year! Merry Christmas!
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