Welcome back to my website! Happy Holidays! I hope all of you that are checking out this new post are drinking eggnog (with something fun in it) sitting by the fire and listening to Christmas music. It’s the best time of the year!! Here is why it’s the best....
First my brothers are home! A year is too long to wait. Dylan my brother and his husband Jayden are in Edmonton for Christmas this year. Last year we were in Australia (where they live) this year we swapped white sand beaches for snow. It is so good to see them and have them home. I counted down to the last minute until I got to see them again. We are going to do all the bro stuff while they are in town. Hot tubs every night, workout at the gym (working on those big buff guns), go out for dinner at the Keg (eat lots of alberta steaks), play games, watch movies and all the other good stuff. Mostly I am excited to just have good chats about all the things that happened since we last were together.
Then we got all the usual fun Christmas stuff. Still so exciting every year even though not much is different from last. Like decorating the tree, singing loudly (off key) to Christmas music, and doing advent calendars. Anyone buy/make cool or strange advent calendars or just the typical chocolate? I wonder if they have a ketchup advent calendar... different brands of ketchup every day.
One of my favourite things to do with my family is go sledding. Nothing better then getting all the warm clothing you own on your body and sitting on some plastic/wood and going down a hill. I could do without the having to walk back up to the top of the hill part. Just sled back up the hill in reverse would be nice.
Christmas is the best time mostly because the people. Doing all the fun activities like making ginger bread houses wouldn’t be nearly as fun without family and friends. Everyone is excited to do fun activities together and make time to see people. I love watching Christmas movies all together as a family then running right into the hot tub. Very chill evening. My forever favourite Christmas movie is Elf. It cracks me up every time. Never gets old. I cant wait for Christmas morning when we open stockings and gifts. Everyone is half asleep and no one talks until coffee is in their hand. Everyone gathered around the tree loving each other and loving coffee. The best.
Some of my favourite things to do with family are...
Help my mom make her world famous chocolate turtles. Nothing is quite like her home made turtles. I love giving them to people and seeing their reaction to eating them. Everyone who has had them before also knows what's coming at Christmas time and they are excited when I bring the tins. They know how addicting they are
Game nights with my family. That is if we don’t fight and I still have a family at the end of game night. Just kidding. We do get competitive though. Some of my favourite games are dominos, play nine, Sequence, sorry, Pass the A’s, monopoly and spoons
Love it when everyone is cooking together for the big Christmas feast. Well mostly my mom cooking and the rest of us getting in the way or eating bits of the food.
Every good holiday has to have lots of hockey. Forget family and friends what you really need during Christmas time is Connor McDavid scoring goals and bring home the win for the oilers every game. I want a clean sweep all the way to play offs for Christmas. Santa can bring me that on Christmas morning and every single game.