Merry Christmas From The Vaughns!

Hope everyone has enjoyed and is continuing to enjoy an awesome Christmas.  We started our celebration by hosting Christmas Eve last night.  I believe a good time was had by all.  One of the big attractions was of course newborn Allie!  She's my first niece!  She might get spoiled...just a bit!  The other big news is that a new marriage will begin soon.  As my nephew and his girlfriend are engaged!  They will likely tie the knot very soon, as in before the new year, then have a reception to celebrate a year or so from now.

As for Christmas morning...we did our traditional thing.  Got up when we wanted to, gave the boys a short walk.  It's Christmas so they got a little break from the morning routine by only having to go on a short walk.  We then opened presents which Cody seriously loves!  He hung in there until every gift was opened.  Little Piper liked her first Christmas.  She hung around as we opened gifts but she's full of energy and is quickly distracted by other things.  She's like a bolt of lightning.  She travels around the room striking at a moments notice.  Gone as quickly as she appears!  She loves the wrapping paper almost as much as the gift.  Perhaps more than the gift!  As for Simon, well we lost him to a rawhide early on in the unwrapping session.  After gifts it was time for what has become our traditional Christmas morning breakfast...cinnamon rolls.  This year I made the cinnamon rolls from scratch.  It was fun and they turned out yummy.  I'm a rookie at baking cinnamon rolls from scratch, it was successful enough to try again for sure. However, there's plenty of room for improvement with the cinnamon roll venture!  Lol! We've relaxed all day enjoying some of our new items we got from one another and others. 

Last year I spent so much time and effort on the Christmas Eve meal I completely forgot to plan out a meal for Christmas night with my brand new husband.  I felt bad last year having to serve Brad leftovers for lunch and dinner.  I honestly don't know how I could've forgotten to plan out a nice meal for Christmas day.  Geez!  Well not this year folks!  I planned out a meal for us to have tonight....no leftovers.  We snacked on last night's leftovers earlier but will sit down to a freshly prepared Christmas dinner for two. I'll end this post so I can go finish up the preparation of that meal!

Merry Christmas to all!