Christmas

Christmas this year was great! Chris and I went out to Sacramento to spend it with my mom. But the few days before Christmas was spent with Chris's family. His brother and sister both came in town for the holiday so we spent some time with them. The Saturday before we went to lunch at Chuck a Rama with ALL of his family. His grandparents, cousins, parents, siblings, and his awesome wife. :) It was a yummy lunch and it was fun to catch up with family. We then hung out at his parents house playing cards for the rest of the night.

After church on Sunday we went over to the In Laws for a Christmas dinner. We ate lots of yummy food, visited with the fam, and played our favorite card game Progressive Rummy. It was a nice relaxing day, as most Sundays are. :) Chris and I also opened our gifts that his family had for us since we weren't going to be there on Christmas Day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas Eve (which was Monday), we met Chris's family over at Perkins for a big yummy breakfast! We hardly ever go out for breakfast, and since it is my favorite meal, I was so excited! Their french toast is AMAZING, and it definitely filled me to the brim. We then spent the afternoon at Esther and Jared's house relaxing, napping, and getting ready for our trip!

Chris and I were leaving that night for California! Yay! I was so excited to get to spend Christmas in California with my Mom. It had been many years since I was able to do that. We needed to be at the airport at 5:30pm to head out, so we stopped at Subway to grab some dinner (Some Christmas Eve dinner, eh?) haha, and then got to our apartment to finish packing. The bad thing was that it had started snowing a few hours earlier, and I mean SNOWING!! Tons and tons of snow and it didn't look like it was going to let up anytime soon. I was scared our flight was going to get cancelled. But Chris's mother came and picked us up and took us to the airport. When we checked in we found out that it wasn't cancelled but Delayed till 10pm. Ugh. So we got to spend Christmas Eve in the airport. Waiting.

We read magazines, watched people, and played cards waiting for our plane to arrive. Our plane finally arrived at 10:05pm. We waited for those people to get off the plane, and then we finally got to get on! It had stopped snowing, but had to wait for them to de-ice the plane and do paperwork before we could finally leave, which was 11:15pm!! Holy cow. 5 hours later than it was supposed to. It was a pretty smooth flight and we arrived in Oakland at 12:15am and my Mom and Lee were waiting for us when we got there. By the time we got in the car and drove to Sacramento it was almost 2am. What a long night. We totally crashed as soon as we got to Mom's house, and it felt really good to actually be there out of the crazy weather.

Christmas morning we woke up about 9am with breakfast waiting for us that my mom had made. And then we opened presents. My mom was really good to us giving us gift cards and candy and scarves and socks. We also got some nice things from our family who couldn't be there with us. It was a modest but really nice Christmas. One thing that Chris and I gave to both of our parents was this:

Yep! That's an announcement for exactly what you are thinking, but I will get to that later :) The rest of the day we relaxed, ate lots more food, went to the movies and saw Parental Guidance and then played Rummy for a few hours before going to bed. It was a great Christmas and fun to show Sacramento to Chris since he had never been there before.

The next day we went to the movies AGAIN and saw Les Miserables. It was pretty good. Good music, good actors, but it was kind of long. And LOTS of singing. :) haha We walked around the outlet stores for a bit afterwards, grabbed some Burger King on the way home and hung around the house the rest of the night playing more cards and eating ice cream and brownies. Yummy!
 
Our flight back to Idaho Falls was leaving on Friday, but Chris and I were staying at a hotel down in Oakland the night before so my mom could get back to work on Friday. We wanted to spend a few hours in San Francisco, but by the time we got up and got ready for the day and headed down there, it was pretty late in the day, and we didn't want my mom to have to drive through a bunch of rush hour traffic. So instead we got checked into our hotel, ate lunch at a restaurant across the street from it, and said our goodbyes. The trip went SO FAST!! It was sad to already have to say goodbye and hopefully it wouldn't be too long till we can see her again. Chris and I hung out at our hotel the rest of the night. Went swimming, watched movies, ordered pizza, and ate a bunch of candy we had gotten at the gas station earlier. We love hotels and it was really nice to just relax and be together.

After we got up and ate breakfast the next morning, we got ready to go, and then our hotel drove us to the airport for our flight! We were there a few hours early since our flight wasn't till 3pm and we had to check out of our hotel at Noon. So we ate lunch at the Chili's restaurant there and hung out till we had to board. Chris loves getting to airports hours and hours before we have to board cause he worries that something is going to happen, so he likes to be there super early. So, our flight was on time, and we said goodbye to warm California, and got off in SNOWY Idaho :( It is so cold here!! Boo!! But it was definitely a nice Christmas and I am very grateful we got to make the trip. It was totally worth it. The only bad thing is I didn't take any pictures while I was out there! I need to get better at this picture taking thing. :)