Christmas 2011

I am so dumb at loading things. You will need to scroll down to see a few pictures I loaded by myself but not in the right way. They actually went on as 2 separate posts. Who is the POST?
Anyway, I will learn.
Christmas was a great time this year. We decorated the tree after Thanksgiving this year and I had help from David, Lindsay and kids as you can see in my picture. We did lots of fun things. we had our big Orr party on Dec. 17th and then had the Poulsen exchange party the next night at our house. Everyone was here and it was really fun. We ate, went to the cemetery and sang carols, came back and exchanged gifts, had all the grandkids open their gifts from us, played games, ate and had more fun. We always give all the grandkids new pajamas. They opened them and then had to put them on before they open their next gift. This year we gave them each a toy. I think they were all happy.
On Christmas Eve, we went to Tif's and ate and decorated gingerbread houses. That has become a family tradition. John , Kallie and I decorated ours together. We made a pretty cute house. On Christmas day , there was church. So, we went to church, and then went to the Johnson's to watch them all open their gifts. That was very fun. John and I then went and opened our gifts by ourselves. It was just like when we were first married. W
e were back to just the 2 of us. We then fixed Christmas dinner and the Johnson's, the Poulsen's and the other Poulsen's (Trever and David) came and spent the rest of the day and into the night celebrating. The next day, John and I went around to all the other kids homes to see what they all got. Everyone had an awesome Christmas and we sort of spread it out over a few days this year. It is always fun to be with family at this time of year. I hope everyone has a Happy New Year and that 2012 will be a very happy, prosperous and healthy new year for all.