Christmas, part 1

Last Tuesday night we headed down to Greg’s parents’ house for Christmas with his family. It was a lot of fun and I feel like I ate and ate and ate a lot of good food. Greg’s mom made cheesy potatoes because she knows how much I love them. I also ate way more dessert than I normally do, and it was wonderful. I love dessert.

It was Miles’ first Christmas, though he slept through most of the gift opening. I imagine we only have a few more Christmases until he’s waking us up in the middle of the night to see if it’s time to open presents yet. I remember waking up my parents, thinking it had to be time, only to find out that it was 11:30 at night.

Santa managed to find Miles, though, and he got some blocks, a baby photo album (that’s a photo album for him), and a GloWorm (I had one when I was little, so I told Santa to bring him one). He also got a lot of gifts from everyone else, including a couple of teddy bears, some cute outfits, and a cover for his car seat to help keep him warm. His Uncle Steve got him a Lions jersey with M. Kretovic on the back of it.

Greg and I got some wonderful presents, too. Greg is anxious to try out his ice fishing stuff, though I think he needs to wait a little bit longer before heading out on the lakes. I’ll be trying out some recipes from my new crock-pot cookbook. That will come in handy when I go back to work next week (I still can’t believe I go back next week already. Too sad.).

Miles, of course, entertained everyone. He was very good and liked meeting all of his uncles and his aunt. He was a little fussy during Christmas Eve mass because it was way past his bedtime and he was hot, so I had to take off his cute vest and just walk him in the back of the church until he fell asleep.

The weather was also pretty prominent on our vacation. Freezing rain on Christmas Eve caused a lot of local churches to cancel their services. We were supposed to head up to visit Greg’s grandma on Saturday, but the weather up her way wasn’t the greatest, so we ended up going bowling instead. When we headed back home yesterday, we ran into some pretty snowy weather. Between that and needing to stop to feed Miles, our trip back took 10 hours instead of the usual 7.

Miles also had a bit of a meltdown in the car just as we were almost home. He cried the last two hours of the trip, just tired of being in his car seat. I think we’ll be traveling at night with him in the future, because he was great on the way down. He fell asleep before the bridge and slept the entire way there.

Below are some pictures from the Kretovic Christmas. Thursday we’ll head down to my grandma’s house for New Year’s and Christmas with my family.