Christmas Day

Ok so there were a lot of pictures from Christmas day, so I have put them in a great electronic photo album. Flip through at your leisure. As far as the details of the day goes...The Russell's who love their sleep...but also love to rock until the wee small hours of the morning...stumbled, somewhat reluctantly, out of bed around nine to go to breakfast. The aforementioned late night consisted of (after leaving Grandpa Wall's) wrapping gifts, searching for a store that was open with Planters Dry Roasted peanuts...Walgreen's folks...in case you're wondering...oh and it was CROWDED...crowded like I had to wait for a parking space to open up...attending midnight mass, watching The Sound of Music, and going to Denny's...anywho...we got ready and drove to Little America. We decided to break with tradition a bit and went to the buffet instead of the coffee shop...it wasn't very good...the coffee shop is SO MUCH BETTER!!! The good thing about the buffet was the fresh fruit table...but other than that...the coffee shop is where it's at!

So breakfast ended and it was back to the house to open gifts...which took a REALLY long time because we were all ready for a nap...you can see in the pictures that unwrapping gifts included mini naps. The best thing about the gifts was watching Jonah. He really was the highlight of the day. I mean I seriously scored this year...I must have been really good because Santa was super nice, but we were all so enthralled with Jonah...but I mean seriously...who wouldn't be!

The rest of the day until dinner was nap time...Steph and Dave and their kids and Grandpa came over for a light dinner and we enjoyed a game of Imagine Iff...and the last twenty minutes of Mama Mia (because Steph had missed that part) and of course a drive home in an insane snow storm! I maybe should have not driven home, but when I got there I just enjoyed watching the snow fall from my couch with some cocoa and a blanket. It was great. I love the holidays!