Our Christmas celebrations continue

Madison and I have never spent a Christmas or Thanksgiving together before, so it has been really fun to experience everything together this year! After having a wonderful time with the Taylors over Christmas, we are now in Normal, IL with my dad for a while. We're going up to Wheaton to see our friends and celebrate new years with them, then back here for a day before we head home to Oxford. Our festivities have really been drawn out which has made it fun. We arrived last weekend to the Taylors, and enjoyed pre-Christmas time playing games, last minute shopping, etc. Then on Christmas Eve, I played at the Christmas Eve service at their church. The service went very well, and it was nice to experience it all. Overall, it was a pretty easy day, considering that is the 3 year mark of my mom's death. 

Christmas day was exciting -- we got up, opened presents, had an amazing late lunch, then all the cousins & aunts & uncles came over later that evening. The next day, we headed up to Madison's grandparents, spent the night, went back to Oxford, did laundry & wrapped dad's presents, cleaned out the car & filled it with much warmer clothes, coats, etc., and took off the following morning (yesterday morning) for Normal. We left about 9am and made it here by 5:15.  Not a terrible drive. Madison and I had fun making lots of mixes the night before, so between that and talking about how much fun we had at Christmas, etc., we had a pretty good trip. I get very impatient when I have to be in the car for more than 6 or so hours so at times I was probably acting a little crazy/loopy, but Madison survived the trip with me just fine. :-)

Today we are just hanging out in the exciting town of Normal...(ha ha), and possibly going to a movie -- then tonight we're doing Christmas,  and tomorrow early-ish, we are headed to Wheaton for a few days! Yay! 

When I get home, I will take pictures of some of my presents and blog about it!