To grandmother’s house we go, change of plans

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas full of family and good food! I stuffed my belly FULL today! Ha, but I stuffed it full of tasty, healthy food so it was happy ; )

But first … a mini recap of Christmas Eve …

To Grandmother’s House We Go

Yesterday, Erik and I went to my grandma’s house to visit her for awhile. While there, we had our own little photo shoot just for fun … mostly of fruit and of ourselves, ha.  

Note: all paintings seen in background were painted by my dad ;)

When evening rolled around, we went to a Christmas Eve candlelight church service with my sister and her husband. (My sister likes to make faces similar to this while having her picture taken). And after church, we ventured off to my other grandma’s house to open presents.

My cousin, Nina, and I …

The most exciting part (as far as presents are concerned) was getting our new juicer … yay!  I already LOVE it and I’m positive you will all hear more about it later!

I can’t seem to stop taking pictures of dogs

Ha, you are probably all sick of seeing dogs on Lesley Lifting Life but with the many cute doggie (and cat) faces around, I can’t resist! Here are some cute ones I couldn’t help but share … I especially love all the action shots!

Change of Plans

Erik and I were planning on going back to Missouri Saturday morning but with all the snowing/ice/bad weather that’s been going on we decided it might be in our best driving interests to stay here another day. I normally don’t like having to go to work right away when getting back from being gone but at least the next work week will be a shorter one also!

I’ll be back later with our Christmas dinner recap that was full of delicious, easy to make, and healthy food!