Our Holidays

Backing up to November, our Thanksgiving: we spent Thanksgiving Day with my family at Dan and Geniene's and with Jeremy's family at our house that weekend (it was our first year hosting Thanksgiving!). Both times were enjoyable having family around, counting our blessings and stuffing ourselves silly.

We had a great Christmas! Busy and quite tiring, but it was nice being with family all in one place. We had our own family Christmas on Christmas Day. The next day we drove up to Amsterdam, NY to spend Christmas with the Gregsons. We had Christmas with my family on the Saturday after Christmas Day. That was a lot of fun because had the entire family together, which rarely happens. And we had two new additions to the family this year, Jarid (Tiffany's fiance) and baby Abigail. It was a little chaotic with three toddler boys running around, but I think it worked out just fine and, of course, they had a blast playing together. It was a very full, very loud household and everyone had a nice time. Sunday afternoon we drove down to Jeremy's parent’s house. That was nice too, but very different dynamics. It was a little more relaxing there, much quieter, but we were all already VERY tired and trying to keep awake while opening gifts. We had Christmas with the Riggalls on the Monday after Christmas Day. We drove home that evening. We were all very happy to be home in our own beds! When Jeremy and I got in bed, we thanked God for our wonderful home and bed!