The End of Christmas Vacation

I am always so sad when Christmas is over. It comes and goes so quickly. You spend so much time and energy getting ready for it, and then in a blink of an eye it is gone. I have really enjoyed these 4 days off and I am not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow (yuck!). Why do your days off go by so quickly as well?

But at least I had a great 4 days...We went over to our friends, Mike and Korri's, on Christmas Eve and shared it with their family. It was so much fun, they have the sweetest family. They had many, many kids at their house, so it was fun to see Christmas through a child's eyes. Afterwards, Kevin and I came home, enjoyed some hot chocolate, and then he made me go straight to bed. He said "Santa still had to wrap all my gifts"!! I think Santa must be a procrastinator:)

On Christmas morning, we woke up early and opened our gifts. Here are a few pics:

All the gifts under our tree

Me and my new purse (a gift from my hubby)

Kevin and his new Missouri shirt (a gift from me)

After opening gifts, we got busy cooking Christmas dinner. Our neighbor Scott and his two girls, Megan and Molly, came over for dinner. It was low-key, but nice. I was a little sad since this was my first Christmas EVER to be away from my family, but it was still nice to have Christmas at my own house for once.

Scott, Molly, and Megan

Chloe and Elvis enjoying their big presents of the day, candy-cane shaped rawhides

Diesel got one too, I just had a hard time getting a picture of him with it.

Anyway, we spent the rest of the day just hanging out, talking, and playing games. We played "Phase 10" and "Yahtzee"... Look at this picture I took of Diesel while we were playing cards:

Is that not the saddest little face? He was dying for someone at the table to give him some attention. He looks like me now that Christmas is all over...so sad!
Well, I just wanted to share a glimpse of our Christmas day with everyone. I hope yours was just as merry!