Our Very Merry Christmas

Christmas was amazing this year. Last year, we traveled back home and enjoyed the holidays with our family. This year we choose to stay and celebrate Christmas in England with just the three of us. Although we missed our family, we had lots of great fun here. It was so relaxing just to stay home and enjoy our small family together. We wanted to start some new traditions this year of playing a family board game on Christmas Eve, having our traditional Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve, and a big brunch on Christmas morning. I wanted to read Twas the Night Before Christmas, but we totally forgot. So, we will try to do that next year.

We started opening gifts on Christmas morning at around 8:30 and that lasted until about 1pm when Emily went down for a nap. Emily would take 30 minutes to open one gift since she would want to immediately play with the gift she opened. We went to our neighbor's house on Christmas evening for dessert. By the time we got home, Emily still had five gifts to open under the tree. Christmas weekend was fantastic for us. We hope everyone else had a wonderful holiday.

Snow Day Pictures

Here are some of my favorite pictures from the snow in England.

Snow Days!

England has been covered in a blanket of snow for three days now. Each morning I expect to see the snow melted, instead I see fresh snow the ground. We have been having a blast playing in the snow. Emily has been amazed by the white stuff. She loves to threw it up in the air. On the first day, Jason made the mistake of letting Emily put some snow in his mouth. Emily proceeded to eat snow like crazy. She would make a sour looking face after each lick. I was finally able to get her to stop.

We are very excited about Christmas. Although we will miss seeing family in the states, we are excited to be home and starting our own Christmas traditions. I have been trying to get Emily to say "Merry Christmas" with little results. She can say a mean "Ho, ho, ho."

I have been trying to upload snow day pictures, but it is taking way too long for me. I will try again tomorrow because they are great!

Mail has Arrived

I have decided to take the leap and create a blog for our family, McCurry Mail. I am hoping that some of my family and friends who do not use FaceBook can see our pictures and life updates here. Plus, I have started to really like looking at other people's blogs. I have just started this new "hobby", so I do not know all the tricks yet. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We had a fun day in the snow today. I will post details and pictures out snow day tomorrow.