Christmas Day

Matt and I slept in late on Christmas morning ... hopefully our last time to do this so we took advantage of a quiet house. We made Christmas breakfast of Early's sausage (that Matt's parents sent us) with toast and eggs, and drank coffee with chocolate milk (we ran out of creamer).

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Christmas 2009

Matt and I exchanged presents at home -- Matt got me a sweater and a Peugeot pepper mill and salt mill that I've been wanting. And he also surprised me with a replica of a 1840 Peugeot spice grinder. I got him 2 Wii games, pj bottoms, a wallet, and cologne. What I really wanted from Santa was an iPhone, but he told me that we needed to get that together.

At noon we went to my mom and dad's to open more presents. My mom cleaned out Lord & Taylor's because I got 8 boxes of new clothes from her. And Matt got a nice Lacoste jacket and Scrubs DVD. We sat in the living room and drank hot cocoa, tried on our new presents, forced my dad to try on his new jeans.

After my mom's we went to my aunt's at 3PM for Christmas dinner which wasn't served until 5:30PM (is that right?). But they just had their kitchen and family room remodeled so it was just nice sitting around her huge island and chatting with everyone eating appetizers. Everyone was in good spirits, dinner was delicious, and the peppermint ice cream for dessert really hit the spot. -- My cousin posted some pictures on her blog here.

The day after Christmas, my spotting stopped, my morning sickness came back in full force, and I puked 3 days in a row. I guess somebody was trying to give me some a Christmas break!