Indy Christmas

A few factors have shuffled around our Christmas plans this year and we celebrated our Indy Christmas last night with Eric's family. The change made things a lot more stressful in the week leading up to hosting everyone... suddenly, hosting responsibilities were combined with getting all shopping done, out of town stuff shipped, and cards in the mail. Yeah... just a little stressful. And it was pretty obvious I was stressed... at least when I was home, looking at the list that needed to be done. But you know what? I got it all done!

So luckily, we had almost all of Saturday to prepare for dinner and Christmas festivities at our house. We needed all of that time, too! Since we had the party the night before, none of the typical 'do it the night before' things were done (like desert). The day started with that and we had to finish that before moving on the the normal 'day of' stuff. We were smart and didn't choose any difficult sides for this meal - kept to the simple basics,  for the most part. Eric got a little creative with a couple of sides, but nothing crazy. So dinner ended up being ham, green beans, mashed potatoes, roasted yams, and white cheddar mac'n'cheese bake. And a spiced apple cake with carmel sauce for desert. Wait... back up to the ham... Archer Farms (Target brand) is an AWESOME ham! Comparable to those $80 hams you find out there! Yum!

So dinner was good, obviously. Then we had gifts to open. Four kids and gifts are interesting. I can only imagine what they're like at their house after Santa comes! But I guess relatively, they didn't get too crazy. But they did love all of their gifts! They immediately had to open them and either play with them or put them on. I remember being like that. LOL I think we did good on gifts this year. I almost forgot what it's like to buy for younger kids, not that they're any less picky. But I guess if you just watch and listen, it's pretty easy to figure out what they like.

So all in all, we had another great Christmas in Indy. Still can't believe I can say this one is in the books already. Where did this year go? Where did this last month go??