Our First Christmas

On Christmas morning we went to church where I sang with the worship team and Dave did a reading with a few other people. He did a great job. After church we stopped at Dave's work because he needed to check the fridge temperatures.When we got home we grabbed some L&P and Sprite, and headed off to our pastor's house for a Christmas dinner. His three youngest kids were home; Vanessa, Ronda and Dave. His wife Heather was busy cooking and another older lady came, but I forget her name. We sat around and talked to Paul's kids for a while. Dinner was great! We had turkey, potatoes, beans, salad, ham and some other yummy food. After dinner we played a game called Kiwi Trivia. It was kind of like Trivial Pursuit but instead of different categories there was different levels of Kiwi trivia. Dave and I were asked the easiest questions, so we almost won. We knew quite a few of them, but the ones about the Maori were pretty hard. We left around 4pm. When we got home I took a nap while Dave talked to his family. At 5 we played a game of tennis with Paul and Ronda. Tennis on Christmas...I know, not your typical Christmas event. We were quite equally matched which made it a nice challenging game. Once we got home we started cooking our own Christmas dinner. The dinner was delicious. Once the dishes were finished, we sat down by the tree and opened our gifts. We received gifts from Dave's brother and sister-in-law, my parents, my friend Sarah Matherly, our landlords, and a few from each other. We'd like to thank everyone for the wonderful presents! We love them all and can't wait to us and eat them all. After opening all our presents we plopped on the couch and watched the best Christmas movie ever, Home Alone!

Ok, so this isn't a Christmas picture, but of our broken camera. It cartwheeled into a lake and decided to die due to water and sand inside it. We disassembled it to dry it and get the sand out, but it didn't work. We'll have to buy ourselves a new one as a late Christmas present.


Standing by our pastor's Christmas tree. Look at all their Christmas cards!

Christmas dinner.

Christmas dinner with just the two of us.

Snuggling in front of our Christmas tree and exciting presents.

Don't you like the book, Dave?

At least I liked my book.

Best Christmas present ever! All my favorite foods. Thanks Sarah!!!

Dave posing with new socks from my mom and a few other presents.

We had a great Christmas together!

Merry Christmas everyone!