Merry TexMas

We moved to Texas only 10 days before Christmas so it was our mission to get unpacked and decorated for the holidays ASAP! We unpacked boxes in record time, the kitchen was set-up before the movers even left, and surprisingly we had enough furniture and stuff to fill a 3100+ sq ft home. So next came the Christmas Tree...

Our house felt so cozy and comfortable with all the decorations but it was missing one big thing, our families!!! We knew we would be spending our first Christmas in Texas alone but it didn't really sink in until Christmas Eve. We have never spent a holiday without our families before so it was a little sad but we tried to make the most of it and started some new traditions of our own. On Christmas Eve we started the day baking Christmas cookies and watching Christmas movies but then we adopted one of my family traditions and went to mass and had a Chinese dinner, it's the only place open on Christmas Eve =) Lucky for us, we didn't have to do a repeat on Christmas Day because the Richards invited us to their home for Christmas Dinner with their family. It was great having a adoptive family for the day and we even adopted one of their Christmas traditions and headed out to the theater that night. All in all Christmas was very Merry in Texas but we did miss our family!