Christmas Love

Christmas Eve in Pictures

This movie keeps getting better and better. It's a Wonderful Life.

Christmas Morning

The easiest, yummiest mini cinnamon rolls for breakfast.

Opened our stockings to one another.

Went to go see Disney's Frozen at 10:30am. Best decision ever! There were only a few families in the theater and it wasn't busy at all! The movie was so cute! Loved it.

We made our Christmas meal. Cranberry marinated pork chops and steak, dutchess mashed potatoes with gravy, and roasted parmesan green beans.

You can find the recipes for the mashed potatoes and green beans here and here.

We proceeded to open gifts! We managed to make our gift opening last until 7 at night. It was wonderful. Here is a gift I made for James. It's our compromise for now since he would one day like real taxidermy displayed in our home...I'm not too keen on the idea so this will do for now:

James surprised me with these amazing lamps for our home. Our home is so much brighter and beautiful when they are lit! 

We each had wonderful gifts we gave one another. Some of my other favorites from James included gorgeous sparkly earrings and this cute library tote bag with my favorite novel on the front! Such nice surprises!

James also loved his new soccer shoes!

It was a marvelous Christmas! So thankful for our Savior Jesus Christ, for His birth, for His life, and for the spirit of Christmas being in our home this year.

We LOVED going to the temple a couple days after Christmas with our best friends Than & Ixchel. We were able to do my family names initiatories and endowments. Than isn't in the pictures but he was there!

Oh and afterward we had lunch at an authentic Mexican restaurant. Ixchel had to order our food for us in Spanish. I had my first fish taco and it was delicious. It was so good to go to the temple together and to catch up with our awesome friends.

Now off to Texas to ring in the New Year with my family!