Christmas all worked out in the end at our house. With Chris loosing his job unexpectedly the beginning of November, I was really worried about how it was going to work out. We couldn't have had Christmas without Peggy, she had given us some Christmas money and it was enough to make sure everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I had also bought the girls a bunch of dresses in the summer so that was a real bonus not having to buy dresses in December. This year it was just our family. We bought a 34.6 pound turkey from friends of ours that raise organic turkey's for Christmas. I slow roasted it and basted it every 30-45 minutes. It was the most delicious turkey we have ever had. We are sold. Next year we are going to buy 2 and make sure our one for Christmas is over 40 pounds. We also cut the wings off before baking that we cooked up later, but I will post about those later. It was a great no stress relaxing Christmas day.
Stockings the kids thought were going to be filled
stockings that were actually filled. Santa is so sneaky.
tree
Ezra wanting to climb on the presents!
Ezra loves these balls. He can stick his finger in them and they don't roll away!
