Two sleeps until Christmas!

On Thursday, we celebrated Christmas with Beth! Juanito made a whole delicious dinner for us - ham and mashed potatoes and corn and maybe some other delicious food. Beth brought crackers (the British kind, not the kind you eat), and we had fun all getting to do those. We opened presents. One of the presents Beth gave Houston is a tiny "finger hand," which Houston absolutely loves, and ever since he opened it, he's been going around petting people with it and trying to freak them out. We ate cake and pie and just generally had a really good time. Yay for good friends!

And speaking of good friends! Today we traveled to Lansing, where we met up with Karen D. and Amiya! They're at Karen's brother's house this weekend in Ann Arbor, so it was convenient for both of us to drive to the midway point and hang out. Yay!! We met at a pet store and walked around there for a while, then went to an old used bookstore for a while, and then got lunch at a little hole-in-the-wall-type place. We figured it would be more fun for all of the kids to be not just sitting at a table for the entire time.

Amiya is absolutely adorable. Adorable! She is super smiley and engaging and so, so cute. All of us just love her (and Karen!).

We usually open our stockings on Christmas Adam (the day before Christmas Eve, of course, because Adam came before Eve), and since we weren't going to be home tonight, we opened them in the afternoon. A couple of months ago, all three kids were like, "Fidget spinners are the stupidest things in the world!" And then one of my girls gave me one, and i brought it home, and all of them could not stop wanting to play with it. So we got them each a fidget spinner for their stockings, and they've all been playing with them since they opened them.

And then tonight, we went to my parents' house, along with the ENTIRE FAMILY of approximately a million people (Fine. Thirty-ish. But when we're all packed in to my parents' house, it's a lot of people!) for dinner. Dinner was chaotic and loud but also delicious and fun.  And then we played Tripoly with nearly all of the original family plus several grandkids. And it was entirely fun.

So. What i'm trying to say is, it was a really fun day! Yay!