Christmas Parties

A couple weeks before Christmas some of my husbands relatives decided to get together

for a big Christmas dinner. The majority of the relatives live about two hours from

us, so we headed out when Nate got off work and drove down to visit with everyone.

Here is a picture of Nate's cousin Jamie and her husband Rob....

A picture of some of the Aunts and Uncles....

Here is Nate's cousin Katie and her boyfriend....

And of course, here is Nathan and I...

We did a white elephant gift exchange..here is Pat opening her present...

Nate just realized that his popcorn is gluten-free and fat-free..

But he still wanted the caramel corn.

For Christmas my mom made homemade caramel corn so this tub of

popcorn is still sitting in our house waiting to be eaten. It was a fun dinner

getting to know a few of the cousins that I hadn't met before.

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