Christmas and Family Affairs!

Christmas time is here!
It seems like it kind of crept up this year and now all of the sudden I'm realizing that I'm completely not ready for Christmas to be here.

Steve and I are going home to Montana to visit my family this year and I am SO excited! Not only has it been years since I've been home at Christmas but my brother and his wife will be there as well and I think it's been at least a decade since I've been home at Christmas with my brother there too.
I love my brother and even more I love his fabulous wife!

Apparently I'm not the only one excited either.....
I got an email this afternoon from my stepmom letting me know that she's already scheduled for us to go get family pictures taken AS WELL AS.....a sleigh ride! I don't think i've ever been on a sleigh ride in my entire life - nor have I really had the desire. Who wants to sit in a cold sleigh and ride around in the below zero weather and get your face frozen from the wind burn? NOT ME!

I will make the best of it though and I'm sure it will be fun. I must just be ungrateful.

Another note of importance for our Christmas that might seem odd to some is that ALL of our family will be together on Christmas night.
That means my mom has invited her ex-husband (who consequently happens to be my father :) ) and his wife (who consequently had an affair with my dad back when he was still married to my mother) over for a big family dinner. My moms ex-live-in boyfriends children (who consequently my father hates) said they might even show up too! So all in all we should be have one huge big old dysfunctional family reunion!
We used to spend Christmas Eve with my mom and then Christmas day with my Dad & Stepmom but now I guess since us kids are grown and married our parents have decided that they can act like civilized adults as well.
Hopefully things don't get to interesting.

As dysfunctional as my family is nobody can ever say that we're boring......weird maybe, but boring never!