Family Christmas and Michigan Reception

Last weekend Dan and I headed to Michigan. On Saturday morning we celebrated Christmas with my parents and my sister and her family.



My parents

Dan's turn

My turn

Antlers we gave the kids as part of their gift

 After grabbing a quick lunch we headed to the church for our Michigan reception. We brought up our wedding pictures to use as a slide show while people had cake. We set our guest book out again to get signed and even had a bouquet of flowers similar to my bouquet. The turn out was really good and fun to see people and get to celebrate with them as well.

cake and flowers

pumpkins candies

 An added bonus was getting to wear my dress again! I also had a nice orange tie for Dan that I gave him from Cambodia.

 My Grandparents couldn't come to the wedding in Indiana so it was nice they could make it to our reception. My Grandpa just turned 95 and my Grandma will be 94 in January!

Me and my Grandmother

All of us together

 Dan and I opened up our gifts and cards back at my parents house that night. It was fun opening them up with my parents and chatting about how everything went. We estimated that about 150-200 people came. After the reception we also had my mom's family Christmas, which meant more food and playing games. It was a lot of fun but I was feeling exhausted.

On Sunday after eating lunch and packing up the car we headed home. We did stop at a Big Boy to grab some food and realized that it was the same Big Boy we had stopped at the first time we had traveled up to Michigan to move my furniture to Indiana. Which was also the beginning of us being gone every weekend...since that September trip we have not had one weekend when we were home the entire weekend, not traveling, or having people over.

It is safe to say that the next few weeks we will be spending our time at home, unpacking, hanging pictures, and sleeping in!