December

Now that the kiddos are back in school, I can catch up on our month of December.

I won this years fantasy football league!  We have an official trophy, but that floats house to house depending on the years winner, so it's currently in New York.  Caleb was super sweet and made me a little keepsake in the meantime :)

We had I think my favorite Christmas Eve yet.  We have a tradition of going out for Chinese for dinner.  This year, since we've moved, we made reservations and headed back to our old area to our favorite Chinese restaurant

We came back home and enjoyed some Mario castle building.  Caleb got the kids some hot chocolate bombs.  It was a big chocolate ball with marshmallows and candy inside you poured hot milk over to melt and make hot chocolate.  It was a big hit.

We enjoyed some chestnuts and lots of games of trivial pursuit family edition.  This game has been the hit of our winter break.  We've played so many games of it and it's so nice to have questions directed to adults and kids.  The kids beat us way more times than we beat them.

And, of course, everyone gets new pjs for Christmas Eve

And after we tucked the kids into bed, Caleb and I kept up with our Christmas Eve tradition.  We opened our fresh box of chocolates, had some wine, and enjoyed White Christmas.  This is the first year we got to enjoy it on the big screen in our theater room though, and it was pretty awesome.

Christmas morning thankfully never starts real early at our house.  We enjoyed opening presents, cinnamon rolls and breakfast sandwiches, and then we got to hang out the rest of the day waiting for our yummy prime rib to cook and playing games.

 Caleb even got me pretty Christmas flowers :)

The basement isn't quite finished so I don't have pictures, but we got a pool table and darts set up and the kids got some kinetic sand for down there, so the basement has been quite the happening place.


We had a blast on New Year's Eve as well!  I think almost the entire night was more trivial pursuit, some family friendly competition of Mario Kart, and yummy food and drinks.

And we, of course, had to finish off vacation with some ice cream for lunch.

We have thoroughly enjoyed spending our December/January in 60 and 70 degrees and are very much looking forward to our January visitors next week!