Christmas Day

I LOVE Christmas mornings at my parents' house. It use to be Wendy woke everyone up early to open presents, but this year I had to wake everyone up! Sam and Wendy have turned into such sleepyheads in college. I love coming upstairs and seeing how my mom...I mean Santa... left the fireplace setup. 

Santa came...love this scene. 

Opening our stockings. Best part was when Wendy found a bracelet that was not from this year. Not sure how many Christmas ago she was suppose to get that! haha

Dad forgot to wrap our presents, so waited behind the wall to bring them out. Silly Dad! 

Justus looking handsome in his new coat. 

Dad got a map to mark all the National Parks he has been to.

Pretty Christmas Day, so had to take a selfie. 

After our morning of fun, we headed to Joan's for lunch and her annual gift game. The lunch was delicious and fun seeing everyone. It was nice to spend so much time with Grandpa Jack, he is as feisty as ever. I love Joan's gift game. She wraps a gift many times and it gets passed around the room. Each person can only unwrap one layer at a time then it is passed on. If you take off the final layer it is yours! I scored the Peppermint Bark this year, which Justus was pretty pumped about.

Peppermint bark for the win! 

Grandpa Jack, Grandkids, and Gunner

Cousins + Mike cerca HS graduation

Grandpa Jack :)

After a great day with my side of the family, we headed to Kim's for dinner. We had a delicious Mexican casserole and my favorite- mulled wine. The theme of gifts this year were socks- everyone got socks! We stayed at Kim's so we could take off for Okoboji the next morning. I was able to squeeze in a Yoga session before our Starbucks stop and 3+hour car ride.

Starbucks struggling with the spelling of our names. At least they tasted yummy.