Our Christmas

For Christmas this year we had an extra EXTRA NICE addition: DD's boyfriend.
He and his parents don't really do much in the way of celebrating on that day, so he spent Christmas Eve and Christmas day with us. One of our tradtions is to open our stocking on Christmas Eve, so we went out, got him a stocking, and stuffed it to the gills with goodies and yummies. Didn't want him feeling left out, and he's truly become a good friend to us. DD was surprised, too: we didn't tell her we were going to do that.
Christmas morning we all opened our presents, then DS and I made enough bacon, eggs, and buttered toast with jelly to feed an army. Had coffee, juice, chocolate milk, too.
In the afternoon we went to spend the rest of the day with DH's very large family. He comes from a clan of 6 boys (one passed) and two sisters; his parents then had 12 grandchildren,and 5 great-grandchildren. Sooooo there was a lot of noise but even more fun.
After a large dinner we opened presents. The off-white scarves I'd knitted (pic and info in previous post) were very well received.
One of the MANY gifts that was passed out to DH came last. Two of his brothers are retired and have taken up golf, and have been trying to get DH to play, too. I wasn't surprised to see a very large, tall box for him and knew exactly what it was: one of the BILs had bought a set of clubs and the bag at a garage sale for him!
Last night DH put a cup down on the floor in our living room, took out the putter and some of the balls that came with, and started practicing. It looked like fun so I had at it. No brag just fact: I hit more in than he did :-)

Gifts I received:
$30 gift card to Jo-Ann from DD
$30 gift card to Kohls from DS
Flat-screen LCD computer monitor from DH
Weight-lifting gloves from DH (I need them so the weights don't slip in my hands)
Top Chef game for my computer from DH
plus LOTS of goodies from the BILs and SILs
and $100 from MIL

My birthday is coming up soon, so I'm wating to use the gift cards and the money from MIL after. Don't want to spoil anyone's surprises!