Christmas, Part 1

Christmas has been huge this year. It always is, particularly for my kids. They usually get to celebrate by opening presents about six different times. At their mom's house, at my house, at multiple sets of grandparents' houses (they have four sets). It always seems like they open presents for about a week.

This year we started the celebration early with Jordan's sister, Rosie and her significant other, Don. They came from St. Louis on Saturday, the 23rd. They were tons of fun to have around. It turns out that Don and I are amazingly like-minded (keep the faith, brother). Oh, yeah, and they brought a case of wine with them.

On Christmas Eve, the four of us went to Chris and Autumn’s for dinner. Like me, Chris loves to cook and apparently has a tradition where he invites a select number of couples over for a fancy Christmas Eve dinner. More power to you, man. I always end up doing all of my wrapping and such on Christmas Eve, so I was more than happy for him to do the cooking. It was a great spread, and the company was fantastic. Hopefully they will include us in their tradition for years to come.

My lovely wife, Jordan with Chris.

Here I am with Chris’ lovely wife, Autumn.

Petrea with her Papi...

Petrea had a great time putting her finger in Jordan’s key lime pie and then sticking it in my mouth.