Christmas

This year was our first Christmas in our new house, and now that we have the room, we decided to host our family and friends on the holiday! I've been beyond excited for a month for this to happen; my whole life we've always been visiting someone else on Christmas, so this year everyone came to me.

Everything was going really well the morning of Christmas. Everyone was due to arrive in just a few minutes, and all of a sudden we heard a big crash... We reluctantly opened the oven to find a baking dish had completely shattered. We began scraping glass shards and roasted vegetables from the bottom of the oven, but some of the glass got in the heating element. We put the ham in to heat up, and the oven started smoking. (remember, this is 15 minutes before 16 people are due to arrive at my house) We turned off the oven and ate the ham cold. This is what the bottom of my oven looks like now:

We haven't even attempted to turn it back on: partly because we're scared it may be completely dead/broken and partly because we just haven't had the energy to investigate it!

Aside from the oven incident, all went really well. Here are some pictures from the day:

Board Games!

Kiowa hovering in the kitchen for some water to drop!