Christmas Recap and a Happy New Year

The Holidays are most people's favorite time of year. And for good reason. My number one reason for loving the holidays is: Holiday time=family time! I love my family. Being married, we trade off holidays between families. This year we had Thanksgiving with the Jacobs, which means Christmas was in sweet home Colorado with the Harris family (my mommy, daddy, and siblings). I wish we could just be with our whole family all of the time, but Colorado and California are pretty far away, so we make do.

Buckle up! This is a long post, but how else do I fit in two weeks of goodness?

Our Christmas break in Colorado started with a family run in the morning. It was more like a "Jon and my brothers run and Katrina will catch up later" type of run. Then we did some push-ups of course.

One of our Christmas Eve traditions is to make all kinds of goodies and deliver them to people at night. Chocolate covered cherry mice are a must! So cute and fun to make. Don't mind my creeper brother in the background (he is actually not that creepy).

I love that my husband is so good at baking and cooking! He is the man and the woman of the house... I know, I need to step it up.

One of my favorite things about my mom's Christmas decorations is these stockings. My Grandma Harris made them for all of her kids and grandkids before she passed away. 

I have always been partial to my grandma's stockings so I chose to follow a similar pattern for the stockings that I made for Jon and I. I still have to sew a boarder on them. I will do it some day.

(This picture is from my Instagram)

Speaking of homemade things, my mom made these little wooden snowmen for my Grandma Harris years ago. The set included snowmen for every member of the extended family at the time. After my grandma passed away my aunt gave all of the snowmen to my mom. With the extra, my mom was able to add Jon, some of my younger siblings, and Meghan (my brother's new fiancée! Yay!) to the snowman family collection.

One of the best things about having siblings 14 years younger than me is that Santa still comes in full force. It is so fun to line up youngest to oldest and walk out to see what Santa brought each year. We were extremely blessed this Christmas.

Sorry for the blurry picture, but you can see the matching Christmas jammies that I made this year. Remember my "Christmas project"? They turned out, but lets just say I will definitely need more practice on making them fit everyone.

The weather was abnormally warm in Colorado for the first few days so we took advantage of it and played some Spikeball! Everyone is addicted. Sorry, not sorry.

Christmas time always makes me extra grateful for so many things. One of the things that I was feeling extra grateful for this year is the relationship that Jon has with my brothers. Not all of them are pictured here, but you can get a pretty good idea from the pictures that I did get.

Treyton (the baby of the family) is obviously the one that demands Jon's attention the most, but Chayden (my 182 lb. younger brother) gets his fair share too.

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It's hard not to start the New Year with a positive outlook after having such a great reminder of all of the things we are blessed with. I am excited for what 2015 has in store for Jon and I.