We had a really nice Christmas this year. It was our first Christmas not being with either of our families, so it felt a little strange to just have the 3 of us. The best present this year was the 3-way tent we got Ruth. We had such a blast playing in it with her on Christmas day. It is a surprising ab work out to crawl through that tunnel!
The food was also great! Christmas Eve we had steak and twice baked potatoes and Christmas night we had lamb and roasted carrots and red potatoes, YUM! This was my first time making lamb, and using my new meat thermometer. Sounds dumb, but I pulled the lamb out after 30 minutes because I didn't know how to read the thermometer and I thought
it was over-done. After cutting into it and finding it to be completely raw inside we stuck it back in. Ha! But attempt #2 turned out great and we snacked on it all night long. Oh, and roasted carrots are ridiculously delicious...they're practically candy.Ruth has also become a world-class present un-wrapper. She helped us open our presents: Brad got a Mossburg shotgun and a I got a recliner! One of my favorite parts of this holiday season was reading everyone's family letters that were sent to us. I also enjoyed the music. One of my new favorite Christmas albums is by Aimee Mann.
