The Hills Roll On

It was a very special ‘first family Christmas’ for us here in Spain.  We missed our families and friends in Canada, but I suppose it that time of life now.  Time to start our own family traditionsJ  This year I (Tara) had the pleasure of crocheting (cro-shay-ing) personalized stockings for each of us (with much help from Gavin who assembled all the pieces).  We had so much fun playing Santa after Eden had gone to bed; stuffing eachother’s stockings.  Our pathetically adorable 6 inch tall plastic Christmas tree was delightfully dwarfed by all our presents.  Friends and family blessed us many times over with Christmas cards, care packages and emails.  We felt so loved. Christmas morning was sweet.  Eden had lots of fun opening her stocking and presents.  Gavin got Eden a Tigger doll and Fischer Price Stacking Rings thingee.   She promptly threw everything on the floor.  I got her a shape sorting thingee; again, everything went on the floor so we decided to move from the table to the floor.  We couldn’t really get her to smile for the pics though as she was getting pretty pooped.  So we put her down for a beautiful long nap and we enjoyed our own little Christmas morning; brunch, stockings, and presents. My parents sent us all kinds of great Canadian stuff.  We kept exclaiming: "All right!!!" as we opened those gifts.

Gavin and I had decided we’d do “only-one-homemade-gift-exchange” this year to keep it simple; but we were both mischievous!   My mischief was to make Gavin hunt for his present! With 7 clues on paper (an assortment of riddles and word games.   After about 30 minutes he found his homemade gift: a plate of Rocky Mountain Fudge.  His mischief to me?  He didn’t make the gift…he BOUGHT IT!  But it’s just what I wanted so I forgive him. A beautiful, feminine, silver watch that FITS!  I haven’t had a good watch in over 5 years.  What a sweetheart!  He searched high and low for just the right one.

By afternoon little Eden got all dolled up in her special Cmas outfit from Gramma & Grampa Follis.  Her daddy did her hair up special (isn’t it getting long?!).  Then we headed out on the beautiful, 15º C day a few towns over to spend the rest of our day with our supervisors family and a bunch of folks from the church.  We had a delicious, gigantic turkey meal with all the trimmings.  ¡Que rico! (How tasty!)  Eden was running out of steam soon enough though…no more smiles  All in all a very pleasurable, memorable day. 

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