Our visitors starting arriving on Monday, December 22nd. We were all excited to see everyone. The house was ready... all the bathrooms were cleaned! :-)
On Monday, Dec. 22, my parents (Meme & Poppy) arrived at our house. Laila & Justin also arrived but were staying in town and having dinner with other family members that evening.
John took the kids shopping that morning. He's a last minute shopper kind of person and took the kids to do some shopping for their Mama! I like that idea.
Meme & Poppy arrived and were treated to some warm cheese wafers fresh from the oven and some great Christmas music. I bought three new Christmas CD's this year with really good music - Casting Crowns - Peace on Earth; Natalie Grant - Believe, Selah - Rose of Bethlehem. These are some really good CD's with some very poignant songs to help you remember why we celebrate Christmas.
Dinner this eveing was a fabulous mexican dinner at our favorite mexican restuarant - Los Ramirez. It was yummy!
December 23
On the 23rd, we awoke to a lovely site in our front yard. One of Rachel's hoodlum friends covered our trees/yard with toilet paper. Wouldn't have been so bad except it had rained over night so it was yucky wet toilet paper all over the yard. I was oh so happy about this. Rachel has some work ahead of her today. If we knew who did this, I'd get them over here to help clean it up. Poppy tried to help but hurt his back in the process.
We noticed the wrapping job on our way out to take Rachel for her EMG-Nerve Conduction tests which came out normal, thank god. Although, the neurologist has ordered a couple more MRI's - brain and spine. Why not? We'll just MRI everything from the waist up and just see if anyone can see anything. We're thankful nothing is showing up that is bad, but we're also frustrated to not know what's causing her pain. My insurance company loves us this year.
After the doctor's appointment, Mom and I went to the HEB with the rest of Friendswood! It was quite crowded but we knew what we wanted and were pretty organized so it didn't take tooooo long. We're getting our supplies for the next few days worth of great meals. And man... they were good too!
Laila & Justin, Ariane & Steven joined us this afternoon/evening for a great meal, some great wine, and fun gift opening.
I also try to have a Christmas puzzle going throughout the year and it was fun to see so many folks take some time to work on it. Just a fun thing to do and it's a really pretty puzzle this year!
John treated us to a great dinner tonight - BBQ chicken & sausage, his famous BBQ beans, and some very yummy Risotto made with some of Dad's Viogner. Dessert was one of my Dad's favorites - Apple Pie. This one was made by the HEB but was sooo good! Steven and Ariane brought a couple bottles of wine and I believe we drank those two plus a couple of more between all of us. They were all good!
Gift exchanging happened after dinner and there were lots of DVD's, gift cards, and a really cool pair of Nike's for John! Check out all the pictures!
I just love having family around the house!!
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