i've been home from school for a week now, and have just been hanging out and not doing anything that i don't want to do! it's been nice!
christmas eve was wonderful, we went to our christmas eve service and then came home and had lefse. it didn't turn out the best ever, but it was good to have our traditional norwegian meal and it let me reminisce about all of the times growing up that i had it. i can only think of one christmas that i might have missed having it, when i visited my dad's family and got my holly hobbie phonograph for christmas. oh wait, make it two, i visited jerry's family one year for christmas in west virginia while in college and i didn't have it then either. but ever since we've been married, i've made it every year except for the one year we went to kansas for christmas, which was 5 years ago. (yes, it's been 5 years since i've seen snow, i know, it's sad.....depresses me every time i think of it!)
christmas morning, elisabeth woke us up at 7 a.m.! the kids are always so much fun to watch! elisabeth got a "just like me" american girl doll, a barbie girl mp3/computer game thing, a sewing machine and an easy bake oven, along with some clothes and other things too. nick got an xbox 360 and a couple of games, along with some itunes gift cards, and some clothes also. jerry received a wvu football jersey, keychain and car decal, along with a new bible. i was given a beautiful black jewelry case (to match our bedroom i'm redoing), some gold hoop earrings, and a massager....i'm in heaven! i also got a pretty kitchen set of potholders/towels with chefs on it, just what i needed since my old ones were getting a litty dingy!
christmas day is pretty laid back around here, we like to eat things like cheeseballs, veggie trays, little smokies and things like that. we left to see the new national treasure movie in the late afternoon, and stopped by sonic for something to drink after the movie. (we were surprised that they were open!)
since then, we've just been hanging out. thursday i made a spiral ham with all of the fixings. we've had a video game tournament one evening, a card game night another evening, and just hung out last night. i think we may have a movie night tonight and watch "it's a wonderful life" and "the nativity story". we're still trying to enjoy christmas, for all 12 days!!! i even have some leftover potatoes from thursday, i'm thinking of trying my hand at lefse once more, so we can have a few to eat here and there for a few days.
today i'm going to paint our red tv stand black, and have jerry help rearrange our bedroom to accomodate the bigger tv. then i might pull out my sewing machine and get it set up to start on a few projects i've been wanting to do for awhile. i have over a week left of my break and jerry will be back to work on monday (but off on tuesday), so i want to be creative a bit before school starts back up!
