Christmas Day

Christmas day was much more fun than I had anticipated! Since I got put on call (and never did get called in) I got to spend the whole day with my family. It was awesome! We started the day off with Christmas breakfast with Nate, Brooke, Gavin, and Jackson, complete with orange julius! So good! I think Christmas breakfast is my favorite part of Christmas. Gavin was so cute running around playing with all his new toys and of course Jackson was cute just being a baby! On the way to breakfast Ryan kept telling me he was excited to go to Nate's because my big present was at his house. I was confused as to why my present would be at Nate's house but I was excited to get it too. We kept driving and my butt kept getting hotter and hotter and I asked Ryan, why is my butt on fire? It's so hot!! He played it off and was just like, I don't know, mine is hot too, maybe its just the heater blowing on our feet. I gave him a quizzical look and asked him again why my seat was so hot. He said, "Well if you don't want it that hot, you can turn it on low!" Sneaky!! He got me seat warmers for Christmas! Let me tell you, those are some awesome presents! I LOVE them! The thing I hate most of all is when I'm cold so this solved the problem! Thanks Ryan for the best gift ever!

We came home after that and had Ryan and Andrea Christmas opening our gifts we got each other. Along with the seat warmers Ryan got me cute platters that match our dishes, some movies, and more European candy! I was totally spoiled! Ryan got European Fanta (he is in LOVE with that stuff!), lots of Disney movies, a new pillow, and a clean car (to which he responded, "why does my car smell like a girl?). We opened all our gifts and I could totally tell that Ryan was disappointed because he had been telling me for weeks about this driver that he wanted so badly and it was on major sale. I told him like a million times that I wasn't getting it for him because even on sale it was so expensive! It was actually pretty funny to see his face after realizing he wasn't getting the driver he so desperately wanted. It was so sad. I told him we had to hurry and get ready for church and went in the back to take a shower but came out instead with a big package that was obviously his beloved R-11 Driver. He was as giddy as a 5 year old! Jumping up and down and a smile ear to ear. It was pretty funny! Glad he loves his golf things! We had a pretty fun morning together.

(Giddy 5 year old with his Driver!)

(My cute platter!)

We went to church and then made a visit to the cemetery to see Olivia and we left her a little present for her Christmas. We missed her a lot and were glad we got to go remember her.

We spent the rest of the afternoon at Lynne's playing with the babies and eating good food. We continued the Whitaker family tradition of eating paninis for lunch and played a lot of Family Feud on Scott's phone. Christmas turned out to be really fun this year and I seriously couldn't be more excited about the fact that I didn't have to go into work. I was totally dreading it and so not going was the best Christmas present I could have gotten! We hope your Christmas was as fun as ours! Merry Christmas to everyone!