Christmas

We had a very nice Christmas. We spent Christmas Eve at Room in the Inn, a ministry for the homeless. Our church co-hosted 12 homeless men for the evening. We enjoyed eating dinner with them and spending a few hours together. When we got home we continued the tradition of hiding the pickle ornament on the Christmas tree. It was Jenna's turn to hide the pickle since she found it last year.

On Christmas morning, Jenna woke up first at about 7:00. We let Seth sleep until 7:30 then we woke him up. We had to find the pickle ornament first before we could open stockings and gifts. Steve was the one to find it this year. We always open stockings first and this year Jenna put a few things in mine and Steve's stockings too. We opened gifts, had breakfast and played Wii (which was mine and Jenna's big gift this year). About 11:00 we left to go to Sharon and Brad's for the day. Matt was there too. We had snow flurries for about 30 minutes when we got to Sharon's, so that was fun to see. Soon after arriving we enjoyed cheese fondue with veggies and bread cubes. It was delicious! Mid-afternoon we had Udon soup - a Japanese soup that is a favorite of Sharon's on cold winter days. For dinner we did hibachi grilling. It was a little tricky with all the smoke in the house, but once we figured out which doors and windows to open it was fine. Later in the evening we had chocolate fondue for dessert while watching the Titans play.

Seth got a black Terrible Towel from Grammy. Jenna before opening gifts.