This year we spent Christmas in Chama with my family. We drove down
the Friday before Christmas. I had to work 7am-7pm that day so we didn't
end up leaving until about 8 pm and didn't arrive in Chama until 4am.
It was a terrible drive. I don't think I had ever been so tired in my
entire life but we made it there safely. On the positive side Bryce
slept the entire drive. It was so fun to spend time with the family.
Sherri, Jay and their three kids came from DC, Tanner, Lauren and Addi
came too and of course Mom, Nana and Papa were there. I sure missed
Jenna, Mandi, Craig and Tom who are all over the country and world right
now. Judy, Kenny and Julie's family came the day after Christmas to
spend some time with us all. We had fun eating, playing in the snow,
sledding, four wheeling, shooting, playing cards, relaxing and the guys
all went hunting. Papa still had 2 cow tags and one bull tag so the guys
loaded up each day and went hunting. Jay shot one cow and Ken Gott shot
the second one but they one saw one small bull that wasn't worth
shooting.
Christmas Eve we ate posole and green chili chicken
enchiladas with sopapillas. We opened presents a little earlier this
year because of the babies. Neither Bryce or Graham made it through
opening. We have always opened gifts on Christmas Eve and we open them
one by one and everyone watches each gift being opened. We realized that
might not work out so well anymore now that we have younger kids. They
want to open all of them at once and really don't care to see anyone
else open their gifts. We were spoiled this year. Russ got a 270
Weatherby and a bike, I got clothes and tickets to Shrek the Musical at
Capital theater in March, and Bryce got tons of toys and some
clothes.This year Bryce wasn't too interested in gift, he was much more
interested in the wrapping paper and lights on the tree. Christmas
morning we opened Santa presents, went sledding and then spend the day
eating a traditional Christmas dinner at Nana's house. I feel so
grateful and blessed to have such a wonderful family.We stayed for an
entire week and came home to more snow and freezing cold temperatures.
When we got home we went down to visit Russ' parents since it was our
off year for Christmas. Brycey got spoiled yet again with toys and new
jammies. We got an awesome folding table. Now we can actually have a
place for people to sit when they come over for dinner. While we were
there Bryce played dress up in a Santa suit, an old outfit of Russ' and
one of Kirk's.
Russ and Bryce. Baby clothes have changed a bit in the past 30 years
Bryce and Kirk sporting "The" Humpty Dumpty sweater
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