Plenty of gifts under the tree and Santa made a stop too. Good thing we put out the reindeer dust. Wanted to make sure they could make it all the way to Hawaii!!
Gretchen got some cute socks in her stocking....along with lots of other cool stuff. Even Mason got cool stuff, even though he was having fun at Tammy's house.
And John got a very special gift from Colin. Colin made the frame too! John asked for Habitat of Durham donations for his Christmas present this year and some lucky homeowner is going to be very happy with his presents! Thanks everybody who sent donations!!After opening gifts we got cleaned up and headed for 10:00 church. This was the first time we had ever been to the actual Christmas Day service. It was very nice and quite a number of strangers that we got to welcome. Then we set up for the Sunday service and headed home. Had a mini Christmas dinner with Gretchen before she headed home ahead of the predicted snow. She did end up driving through snow, but not much that was sticking to the ground. Mason was delighted to see her when she stopped by to pick him up.
John and Jean picked up a little and then skyped with Jill. It was great to see the boys all excited about their presents. What a great invention skyping was!! Following that we watched the Nutcracker performance by the North Carolina School of the Arts. Very nicely done. Then we watched the Skating Awards program...also very fun. Then an unusual Christmas dinner of Vermicelli with Garlic Shrimp and Pumpkin Pie. It was a different Christmas this year, but I think everyone enjoyed it, even though we missed the Bairds being with us! Just to top it all off, we did have a WHITE CHRISTMAS - very late in the day, but on Christmas Day nonetheless!
