First Christmas!

Today was Christmas morning in the Huber house! We will be heading to South Dakota on Tuesday for Christmas with the Huber's so Brett and I decided to have a little family Christmas of our own first. We cuddled in bed last night watching "Elf", said Merry Christmas Eve to each other and quickly fell asleep before even making it a fourth of the way through the movie. We awoke this morning, rubbed our tired eyes and sprinted down the stairs to our stockings. Ok so the sprinting down the stairs didn't exactly happen like that...it might have been more of a walk rather than a sprint but none the less we made it to the tree where Santa (aka Brett and I) left each other sweet goodies in our new stockings.

myself looking a bit on the prego chubby side! gotta love it!



brett looking beyond excited to dig into his stocking!



us and our stockings still with tired eyes!

We were so excited about the combined traditions we can now continue with our family. Waking up and digging into the stockings was first on the list followed by our combined traditional breakfast. Brett's family always has grapefruit with their Christmas breakfast and my family always made pancakes with the first pancake for each person as the first letter of their name. We also always had sparkling grape juice to accompany our breakfast!

Brett did a wonderful job carrying on the tradition of the pancakes!

Our Christmas breakfast!

After filling our bellies full of Christmas breakfast goodness we headed back over the couch where Brett read us the Christmas story from Luke 2. We took in the beauty of our Saviors birth and cuddled on the couch talking about how next year we will have a little guy cuddling with us. Eventually we will get a nativity set and follow the Huber tradition of reading the Christmas story while each member of the family gets to move around their assigned person or animal. Our last tradition that we kept was to open gifts...although this year we decided to do a combined gift for each other which is yet to be decided what that is going to be so we saved one of our stocking gifts (that didn't fit in the stocking anyway) and we opened our gifts! It was such a beautiful morning with my husband...the best Christmas we've ever had.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night...at least for now!

Here are a few pictures of our recent ice storm as well...