Christmas

My wonderful readers I hope you all had a great Christmas! My Christmas started around 3:00pm on Christmas eve with our wonderful traditions. About 5 years ago or more my parents decided to stop traveling for Christmas. This was a wonderful thing for me as we started forming family traditions and making memories that will last a lifetime. One of my favorites is my mom reading us an advent book every year. This year we read Bartholomew, a book about a little boy in Bible times. This book really makes you think about what it would be like to live in Bible times. We also went to a wonderful christmas eve service at church. Then came home for our traditional chinese and appetizers. Yum Yum! Of course the meal with finished with lots of cookies and pie. Then we did a white elephant gift exchange the eight of us and my grandparents. I came out with chocolate cookies. :) Then we received our family gift- Settlers of Catan expansion pack and wii sports resort. We spent the rest of the night playing that. Then I watched Hogan and texted one of my good friends till around 12:30an then I went to bed. Woke up around 7:00 am to wait for my sister to get up so we could wake my parents up. Then we rushed in to wake them up. 15 min later we were down stairs opening stockings. Then we finished Bartholomew and read the Christmas story. Next we opened secret sibling gifts and then gifts from parents. The boys and I were excited to find the lots of camping gear under the tree. I was also excited to find a new sweater, two watches, a card and a chocolate snowman (which was amazing because I love snowmen) and some other small things. Then we ate cinnamon rolls, egg casserole, and poppyseed bread for breakfast. Then because of a combination of things I completely crashed till 2:30 when my mom woke me up to say we had to go to my grandparents house, where we ate more food and opened more presents (camping gear, a movie, and some little things) Then we went home and crashed again. That was my christmas! Hope you all had wonderful christmas's as well!
   
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