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After Christmas with the Remynse’s, we had Christmas with the Moser’s and Dagman’s. These are the extended family Christmas’s on my side. We started off at Wade and Lynn’s house and had apps and snacks and some catching up. Lynn had some amazing shrimp cocktail and Holly had some great spun butter that I can’t wait to get the recipe for. You could tell it was the off year as a few faces were missing but they were thought of and a few stories may have even been told in their absence!

The next day, after a relaxing morning with Mom and Matt shooting a few pheasants (almost limited out!) We headed off to Grace and Rick’s for the Dagman Christmas. It was a full house, with all uncles and aunts present and only 2 cousin families missing, but it was a FULL house! And as each family grows or we become families, it becomes more full! This wasn’t Matt’s first Dagman holiday, so he didn’t have culture shock of all the people, or the organized chaos, or the temperature, or the food, or the aunts, or the wine! It so fun to see him accepted by my vocal aunts. They will tease him and flirt all in the same breath. The best part was watching the Peters family open presents. Between Kemma and Carsteyn so excited about presents and Aunt Descie getting the pic of her when she was little and Am appreciating my simple postcard, it really drove home what Christmas is all about.

Best meal: Both were good meals but Mom’s stuffing and the turkey is what made Grace’s meal take the cake!

“I’m going to wait to buy my dress for your wedding just in case you ask me to be the 6th bridesmaid.” – Aunt Merri