Christmas

Merry Christmas!  

We have so much to be thankful for this year.  It was a very nice Christmas and it was great to spend it with the whole Braham fam and Oma.  We missed the cousins this year and hope to spend the holidays with them next year.   

I planned on making crepes for Christmas breakfast, but Craig bought the wrong kind of flour (unbleached) and the mix was the wrong consistency so we had pancakes and sausage instead.  Afterwards we opened presents and listened to Christmas music.  

Julia got three stackable gold rings, lots of clothes, PJs, robe, Spring Awakening tickets, Kate Spade necklace, jewelry, Michael Kors purse and Christmas ornaments.  Ethan got money, rollerblades, clothes, travel mug, shower head, Bose headphones and Christmas ornaments.  Grayson got a play kitchen, pretend shopping cart and canned food, Dyson vacuum that actually turns and makes noises like a real Dyson, lots of books, new Pottery Barn Camel Ombre Fur Anywhere Chair, several toys and Christmas ornaments.  We got Oma a new mirror, Christmas ornaments, a new iPhone case and a David Yurman bracelet.  Craig and I did our big gifts to each other (watch and bracelet, earrings and necklace) for our birthdays, anniversary and Christmas.  We also got the new kindles and Oma got us a new point and shoot Sony camera and covers for our kindles.  Oma also got the kids a Christmas advent calendar that plays music and lights up and an indoor snowball fight game, which everyone loved.  We hung out all day, ate appetizers, watched Elf and had Dutch style pork tenderloin, new potatoes and garlic spinach for dinner.