Some Random Christmas Fun

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I realize that it is EVERYONE'S dream to read the recaps of everyone else's Christmas celebrations - ha!! - so I'll lump together the celebrations we had on Christmas day and let you see some of the highlights!

We started out at my parents' house, and Ryan's mom and Allen - and his sister, Bre - joined us as well! My Aunt B was with us this year, too, which was fun! She's so funny and I always love it when she joins us.

You might remember, if you heard the podcast a couple of weeks ago, that one of my mom's traditions for Christmas day is taking a picture of everyone as soon as they come in the door. So here we are, heads and all!

My new shiplap shirt, as you may have heard us talking about this week on the old podcast. I plan to wear this every Tuesday for Fixer Upper Facebook party night - and possibly every other day just for funsies!

Allen and Bre after lunch {my mom cooked a HUGE, delicious lunch for us.}

Nita and my Aunt B!

The Freelan sons-in-law, minus one. This is Ryan with our brother-in-law, Tom. Our other brother-in-law, Jeff, was home in Kansas for Christmas.

Every now and then I stumble upon a random fun gift, and this year, my mom received it. Years ago {like YEARSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ago} she and my grandparents worked in a local bakery called the Rosemary. {How I wish it still existed. I've heard such good things about it!!} I found this rolling pin with Rosemary on it and thought it was a perfect tribute!

The group photo for 2015.

And just our little family {minus the Kansas crew}:

And here is a more realistic presentation of our family:

I also wanted to let you peek into Ryan's family Christmas - on Allen's side. This year we played some Minute-to-Win-It games, and Ryan and Rod were the first to face off in the "shake the jingle bells out of the box" game. There is a video of this, but I will spare my sweet husband the posting of it.

We also played a game that combined Christmas Bingo with a gift exchange - and all the gifts were $10 gift cards to an assortment of places.

I got a Starbucks card and tried to put it in a safe place so it wouldn't get stolen by another game-player. It did not work.

In the end, we did get a Starbucks card - and Meijer too!!

Oh! And Ryan was a taxi. Again.

A fun and full Christmas!!! :) We enjoyed it. Hope you did too!!