A very merry belated Christmas to everyone!! We had a lovely first Christmas as a married couple here in Colorado and hope that everyone else had a great holiday too. I can't lie, it was certainly different spending the holiday out here just the two of us as I'm used big family get togethers. However, it was nice to start developing some of our own holiday traditions for our new family.
I was fortunate to have both Christmas Eve and Day off work and Matt has two weeks leave for Christmas so we were truly able to enjoy all of the holiday together. A number of our friends out here traveled home but our good friends Nick and Sarah have all their family here in the Springs and they were kind enough to welcome us into their family. They have an adorable little girl who turned one on Christmas Eve and Friday the 23rd we went to her family birthday party. It was lots of fun to watch her with the cake and presents--I swear all kids that age are more interested in the wrappings and boxes than the gifts. Christmas Eve night we had a lovely dinner with Nick and Sarah's families again and attended church with them as well. It really was so nice of their entire family to welcome and include us, and we greatly appreciated it.
Christmas Day I was up bright and early, ready to open gifts! Matt on the other hand, had to be encouraged to get out of bed. :) We took our time opening presents and had my aunt's skiers french toast for brunch. There were a number of fantastic gifts: I surprised Matt with a record player and he got me photography classes. We spent the day relaxing and just enjoying the fact that it was Christmas. It's hard to believe that Christmas has come and gone, it's always a little bittersweet once it's over. Time to start looking forward to the next Christmas! :)
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| Lots of presents under the tree!! |
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| Cooper enjoying one of his gifts. |
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| I think he likes it :) |
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| The aftermath. |
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