Our Christmas Eve picture.
Merry Christmas!
Yesterday I had to work 12-6:30 and close down the store. Oh what fun, to be there when business was slow and the only customers who were in the store were the ones who just wanted to prevent you from doing something that evening.
Katy and I finally got to Bob and Deb's having some fun driving in the snow on the way there. I got all the way there, through slippery roads, snow up to our bumper and ended up getting stuck right in front of there house as I was turning around trying to stay completely out of the middle of the road.
We hung out for a little bit before dinner. We skyped Grant and Chris with Katy's parents in Palm Springs as well as Rick and Joy and their kids in San Francisco. It was fun, for a little bit, skyping with them as we all listened to Bopa read the Christmas story and pray.
Dinner was delicious! We ate the korv we made last weekend, as well as meatballs, rice pudding, lingonberries, green beans, red mashed potatoes, crescent rolls, jell-o and cheesecake for dessert.
We opened presents and that was about all for the evening since we didn't get there until 7pm.
This morning, Katy and I, made cinnamon rolls for breakfast and I made coffee. We got ready and then we opened a few more presents-mostly from my family. We did that in our tradition-each of us going one at a time until they were all gone. Last night, we all just ripped into them at once.
We watched a little tv and relaxed before we went to Sherlock Holmes. My oh my, the movies were packed! I never even knew people went to movies on Christmas Day. I guess that's what happens when absolutely nothing else is open.
I thought Sherlock Holmes was okay, not extremely good though. I said 7 out of 10, just average. It was a good story that made you think a little bit and did a good job of revealing and filling in clues as the movie progressed but all in all it was a dark movie-literally-and the story was based on a guy who practiced magic.
We came home and Katy made ham, peas and cranberry's and we ate leftover red mashed potatoes. That was good too and I was glad to get in some ham.
Otherwise, I've just been watching basketball and football and Katy put our spices in their jars on a new magnetic thing on the wall and used our new Kitchen Aid mixer to make more banana bread.
Oh yeah, this weather. I'm sure you think it's worse here than it really is. Yeah, we got alot of snow and there were watches and warnings all over Minnesota but it was supposed to snow all night last night and all day today. Well, what happened? Yeah, I'm asking the same thing. It was really disappointing to me to have just about none of it happen! I got up last night at 3:30am to use the bathroom and looked like a little kid expecting snow on Christmas but didn't see anything falling. I got up at 8:30 and looked out the window again and I only saw a little drizzle! It was on an off for the morning and part of the afternoon-heavy snow in big flakes, rain and drizzle-but when we went to the movie and left it was all slush and rain. It was much too warm today for snow and I'm really annoyed that it didn't snow! I really wanted to have it be 25 degrees and get us a ton more snow. We probably had 10-12 inches on the ground before last night but I'd say that alot of it is melting now with the rain that's coming down now. They compared this storm to the storm of 1991, which was apparently something to talk about. But it was a major disappointment! I think this might have been one of the top three snowfalls I've seen here. I don't think this is any different or worse than what happens in New England for a nor'easter though. New England just melts faster or melts due to 38 degrees or rainy slush coming down. Here sticks because it's so cold-except not this time!
Merry Christmas again!
The new Kitchen Aid mixer in action! Thank you Mom and Dad!
