Merry Christmas!

Wow has it seriously been a month since the last update? I'll do a few to make up for the gap.
We had a lovely Christmas with our families in Carlsbad and Poway.

Before we left for California, we got into the Christmas spirit by baking up some little treats for our friends and neighbors.

I felt genuinely sad putting the little fellows in the oven.

A gingerbread marriage!

Then Matt helped me make his mother's famous "Santa Cookies" which just may be his very favorite thing about the whole Christmas season.

Confession- we opened up all our gifts to each other about 4 days early. And it was so much FUN.

Matt got me this big piece of wall art for our living room!

AND he hung it up for me!

Nothing says "Merry Christmas" like Emergency Food Storage!

We spent Christmas Eve with the Morris clan... they have some legit nativity play costumes.

Christmas morning was with the Lonas clan... we got this BEAUTIFUL olive wood nativity set! I played doll house with it when we got home. Seems too beautiful to put in storage.

Doing the back and forth thing wasn't too bad- we just feel lucky that we could spend time with both families and have a nice place to stay the whole time! Thank you to both sets of parents, Jeff, and Natalie for being so accommodating :).