Christmas!

Happy Boxing Day to you and yours.  We are in the midst of that storm they keep talking about . . . so I guess it's a great time to settle in and get some pictures up from Christmas.  The frosty winds may blow, but we're snug for now!

On Christmas Eve we went to our little church's family service.  We enjoyed the live nativity and Christmas carols, so familiar and welcome the day before Christmas.  We took a couple pictures on the way out the door . . . in most of them I looked ready to go into labor.  It must have been the top?  Sheesh.

Not to be left out . . .

After church we had lovely little dinner, just the two of us and some pork tenderloin. :)  Of course this was followed by our traditional Christmas pj's and a picture so the Andersons could see how much we love them.  

Then we went to sleep and waited for Santa to come . . . 

And in the morning enjoyed a wonderful Christmas together.  

All three of us. 

I'm so thankful for Skype . . . we had fun chatting with both sets of our parents.  I caught up with my brother for a second, who was all alone in Houston since he works for a church and had to be around for Friday and Sunday.  He's headed to Colorado to meet my parents tomorrow but until then, I've been enjoying his Christmas card. 

We had breakfast with the family I nanny for and then headed out to . . . 

the city!  Since it's our last year just the two of us, we were free to jump on the train and head in for dinner and a show.  We saw West Side Story and it was a good choice!  Such a great show, and it goes off Broadway in a couple weeks.  Matt's friend sent us his keys so we could use his apartment while he was home for the holidays, and he is a great source of ideas on where to eat and what to do.  Dinner at a restaurant near his house was excellent.

We caught a train back to Long Island this morning and arrived in Stony Brook just as the snow started to fall.  And fall.  And fall.  They are predicting 15-20 inches for our area and I'm not sure whether to be excited or afraid.  It's really coming down. We've got the car parked in our neighbor's driveway since our driveway is a million feet long and gravel and not plowable.  I took this picture as we walked home from the car . . . and then slipped and fell a few feet later.  Whoops!

I took the following from inside the warm comfort of our own home.

Snug as a bug, with a load of firewood ready just incase we lose power.  There's enough cookies in the fridge to keep us fed for a day or two.  :)