Christmas

We had a lot of fun this Christmas Eve. We had to change our family traditions of going to the Thomas' or the Tortorice's house since we are a little far from California now. We miss all of our friends in California but we are also making some new friends here in Texas! Remember that Girl Scout song "Make New Friends but Keep the Old...One is Silver and the Other Gold" not sure who is silver and who is gold but they are both really pretty and I love them both!

The Bower Girls and Goodman Girls all dressed up for a fashion show (make-up and all) on Christmas Eve

For Christmas Eve we had our "New" friends the Bower family over for dinner (along with Ga & Pop) The Bowers have 3 kids and they are lots of fun. We had baked ham (thanks to Daddy's boss), cheesy potatoes, green beans, corn casserole and pumpkin pie for dessert. All of our kids get along great so the adults just chatted, shared wine and enjoyed ourselves.

In fact, it was so much fun that we invited them over for Daddy's famous Egg's Benedict the next morning. We decided that the Bower's really are good friends when they held their word and showed up in their jammies at 10am for Christmas breakfast just as we had planned! It was great! They even brought Their gourmet teas over and turned all of us onto gourmet tea and the Teavana store http://www.teavana.com/. After they left we just hung out, played Wii and watched movies in our new "Media Room" (more on this later).

Surprises on Christmas morning!

Santa was good to everyone. The hit presents were a telescope for Emily (from Santa), an easel for Ella (from Santa), a ball pit for Lucas (from Big Sisters), a ball popper for Lucas (from Poppa Pete & Mimi Barb), a keyboard for the girls (from Poppa Pete & Mimi Barb).

It was really a magical Christmas.