Christmas Day

Kinley's first Christmas!  I can hardly believe it!!  It has happened so fast.  I figured we would have fun with her, since she's not so young anymore, but I also knew she wouldn't understand the gift thing, and would probably have more fun with the paper and boxes.  We woke up before Kinley did and went in to get her.  She was sleeping peacefully.

We gave Kinley her morning bottle and then went downstairs to see what Santa brought.  We helped her open her gifts.  She pretty much picked everything up and put it right in her mouth.  She got some clothes and a couple of toys.  One toy is a walker type toy that she can push and walk behind.  We thought it might be good for her in the coming months.  She also got some cute headbands and a hat from her new babysitter, which I thought was very sweet since she has only gone there for a week.

After Kinley opened all her gifts, we got started on breakfast.  We made bacon, eggs and pancakes.  Kinley got to have her very first pancake, which she loved!

Just before we finished cooking, the power went out.  There was some crazy wind blowing outside.  We knew a cold front was supposed to be blowing through.  There wasn't any rain yet, but lots of wind.  Apparently it was bad, because power was out all over the city. 

After breakfast, Kinley went down for a nap, and I laid down for a little while, too.  John got ready to go pick up his mom to bring her over.  Kathy called and asked if she could bring her roaster over and plug it in here.  We got our power back pretty quickly, but hers was still out.

After we rested for a little while, we got started on our afternoon meal.  John brought his mom over and Todd came over to join us, too.  We made a small ham, a turkey breast, potatoes, broccoli & rice casserole, corn, rolls and John's mom brought over some stuffing.  I also made a pumpkin pie and fudge.  After we ate, Kinley opened her gifts from Uncle Todd.

After all that, we decided to go up to The Woodlands to see one of my friend's house.  I taught 1st grade with her back when I first started teaching.  We have kept in touch through Facebook.  She and her husband have a huge light display at their house that is synchronized to music.  They kept posting about it on Facebook, so I thought it would be fun to go check out.  It had gotten quite cold throughout the day, but I stood outside in the crazy wind talking to her for a little while.

Todd left to go home from her house and John dropped us off, then took his mom back home.  It was weird to not see most of my family for Christmas, but we had a great day anyway.  We are going out to La Vernia for the weekend to have Christmas out there.