Happy Late Holidays!! We had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving with Christina's family and then Christmas with Mike's family. It was so much fun to have almost all of the nieces and nephews around to play with and get extremely full at Chuck-a-Rama. We had a fantastic Thanksgiving but we definitely missed Dan & Liz's family as well as Aaron & Karen.

Christmas of course is another one of our favorite holidays and actually the whole week is a celebration since Mike's birthday is on the 26th and our anniversary is the 30th. We had a fun Christmas Eve with the extended Jenson side of the family. They have a party each year where there is a ton of great food, games, the Nativity scene put on by the little kids, and of course Santa Claus comes!

Beside Christmas Eve with the Jensons, our few holidays traditions have been to open our stocking and presents at home and then go over to Mike's parent's house for the family Christmas. This year Christina scored high with Mike with a whole box of Mike's favorite candy bars in his stocking.
Christina's favorite gift was probably the statue that Mike gave her of the couple holding the baby, and Mike's favorite was definitely his new snowboarding package, although the PB Twix were a close second.
All of the Loot! :-)

Just like the Habel parent's the Jenson parent's out due themselves for each of their kids for Christmas. There wasn't one present under the tree the night before Christmas; a tradition stemmed from Lisa, so Santa definitely had a hard night at work.

Well after two fantastic Christmas day celebrations we moved right on to another fantastic day, Mike's 25th Birthday! He joined the Quarter of a Century club in style by going to lunch at Chili's then to see the "I am Legend" movie, and then ended the night with a party of friends and family.