Our fourth and final Christmas celebration was just as wonderful as the rest. This is our most traditional Christmas. Because of the weather, we drove down to Delano on Wednesday night, the 23rd. On Christmas Eve, we went to the service at Bop and Nanny's church, and then came home for Bop's wild rice soup. After a couple games, we all checked in a little early, so that Santa could come, you know. Waking early on Christmas morning, we always come down to a tree that couldn't possibly hold more presents underneath it, and bulging stockings on the fireplace mantle. Stockings come first, then presents. We all take turns opening so that we can see what everyone else is getting. Next comes breakfast: egg bake and cinnamon or caramel rolls. Our uncle, aunt, and cousins then go home to rest for a few hours and change clothes (pajamas are the uniform for the present opening), and when they come back in the early afternoon, we have a very bountiful lunch of Swedish meatballs, candied apples, boiled potatoes, corn, rolls, poppy seed bread, and lots of other things I (Julie) can't remember. Even though we all know Christmas isn't just about presents and good food, it is so special to get together with family, and Nanny and Bop, Bop especially, just love making it a storybook Christmas.
The cousins in front of the tree. L-R: Katie, Emilee, Julie, Amy, Carson, Logan
After lunch, some of the cousins went out to make some snowmen. The snow was perfect, and so were the snowmen, except for Duchess (Bop and Nanny's dog) kept stealing the carrot off his face. L-R: Carson, Logan, Amy
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