Christmas!!!!

Christmas Eve was spent driving home from Las Vegas. When we got home everyone was already with others eating dinner. Which was fine because I don't think we were planning on eating Christmas eve dinner with anyone. because everyone was already occupied Patrick and i decided to continue our Christmas eve tradition. Going to Mimi's Cafe. I know that we did that the first Christmas we were married. And we did it last Christmas but we got take out instead. It's a funny tradition but it is nice to know that even though we have been married for 2 and a half years we already have at least one Christmas tradition.

We then went home and let audrey open the presents that we had. She really really likes opening presents. She enjoys ripping the paper off and hearing the noise that it makes. We didn't do santa this year. I felt a little bad but Audrey didn't know what was going on and since we had gone to the Las Vegas Bowl I decided that i didn't want to spend any more money. We will start that tradition next year when she understands what is going on.

Christmas morning we went to grandma and grandpa griffins house for the annual christmas breakfast. Audrey loved the hash browns. I don't think she had ever had them before. Either way she devoured them. It was nice to see everyone and talk with everyone even though i have no idea what half there names are. Grandma you are one amazing woman to remember everyone and make sure that they have a little christmas joy... Socks!!! I love the christmas socks they always come in so handy.

Once everyone left the rest of the morning was spent playing Rock Band that dad had gotten the family for christmas. Awesome game. I love playing the drums. I do have to admit that i was getting pretty good at the game by the time they left for Texas. Watch out matt Patrick and I have been practicing Guitar Heros. And that my little brother is a challenge. hee hee hee :) Love you.

After we effectively scrambled our minds with Rock Band we made our way to Veniece's moms house and had christmas dinner with her family. Although there were a lot of people there, there was not nearly as much as at grandma and grandpas. It was fun to see everyone play with audrey. She was scared half the time but once patrick and i decided that we were not going to hold her she gave in and decided that being help by dad and Veniece was better than anyone else. Warren and Diana really seemed to enjoy her knowing that they were going to be having a little grandchild of there own soon.

Dad wanted to go and see a movie but patrick and I thought that Audrey needed to go to bed. Veniece was nice enough to play grandma for the night and stay home to watch audrey. Patrick, Dad, Matt, Sam and I went to go and see national treasure. It was a fun movie. I think i liked the first more but the thing entertained me. You would think that i would have more of an analysis of the movie for you but when a movie is made only for entertainment purposes then you really can't say anything about it.

I think that veniece had fun playing grandma. She is a grandma....she wasn't playing she was being grandma. i enjoyed watching dad and veniece be grandma and grandpa. It fits them and it's just sad that we can not see them more often so that they can play with her more often. Hopefully some day in life we will be in a better financial situation to go and see them more. We are just going to have to wait for a few years.

I guess in conclusion christmas was fun. We got to see audrey freak out about sitting on santas lap. Had a birthday party for audrey. We even got to sneak around and go to Las Vegas for a weekend. Then spent christmas day with family that we never see. Can you believe that all of that happened in a weeks time. Tuesday was the pageant, Wednesday was the party, friday we left for vegas, we drove back on monday and Tuesday was christmas. That we a lot to fit into in a weeks time. I swear we did more that week than we did in Italy. Okay so maybe not but it is comparable.

Loves
Elizabeth, Patrick and Audrey