Christmas in Alaska

For the first time in the 7 years Kolt & I have been together, we spent our first Christmas away from our family in Tucson.  I was a little sad & missing family, but we made due with our Alaska friends.  Christmas eve we went over to the neighbors house for dinner.  They had invited us & 3 other couples & everyone brought a different dish.  We had a great meal, Turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, fruit salad, etc.  It was fun & there were babies everywhere!  Our neighbors have become good friends of ours, they have 2 little boys, 2 years & 8 months.  The wife is in the Coast Guard & the husband stays home.  Out of the 5 couples, including us, that were there, Kolt was the only husband who was active duty.  The wives were the active duty out of the other 4 couples.  Kolt & I got a kick out of how times have changed with the military & how it's not so uncommon for the female to be active duty & the husband to stay home now.  But we had good food & good company & a good night.  After dinner Kolt & I came back home to relax & we decided to open a baby gift from my sister, Mandy.  We also exchanged gifts with Kolt's friend Cooper.  He bought us our first box of diapers.  Mandy gave us some wipes & a baby blanket.  The neighbors gave us a little frog booster chair for the dinner table for when the baby gets a little bigger.  We LOVE all of our baby gifts so far.  
Christmas morning we woke up & Kolt made a breakfast casserole that we usually eat every Christmas morning at his mom's house.  We had Gunner open his gifts so that he had something to keep him busy.  Then Kolt & I took turns opening all of our gifts.  I think we each got everything we wanted plus more.  The rest of the day was very relaxing.  We stayed in our pajamas all day, I slept while Kolt watched tv.  In the afternoon, Kolt made our Christmas dinner.  Ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, & green bean casserole.  It was delicious.  I had baked homemade chocolate chip cookies the night before & had also made some of my mom's homemade fudge for desert.