Our first Christmas in the trailer turned out to be really nice. The Wednesday before Christmas Meric and I decided to make cookies and candies for goody plates for his home teaching families, co-workers, and some of our neighbors. We made almost candy, 5-chip cookies, and soda cracker candy. I have really gotten use to how my oven cooks things and have no problem using it but it is small. I can't fit a regular sized cookie sheet in the oven so instead of baking 12 cookies at a time, I can only do 6.
Once the cookies were started, I decided I wanted to decorate the trailer for Christmas. We decided to decorate our back "TV room". I draped strings of lights around the room and from the ceiling and hung our stockings next to the fireplace. (Meric actually got his own stocking this year thanks to Lissy's Christmas present.) Then Meric decided he would go out and try and find me a little table top Christmas tree. He came back with a little potted living tree covered with fake snow and sparkling decorations. It was perfect! We hung lights from the tree too and piled presents around it on the table. It was nice to have one room that looked like Christmas.
Friday before Christmas we went out to give our neighbors the goody plates. Our last stop was to the owners of the campground. They invited us in and offered us some goodies that they had made. They had peanut butter no bake cookies, just peanut butter. I had never heard of doing those cookies without the chocolate. They say you make them just the same as regular no bake cookies but you leave out the chocolate and add more peanut butter. The cookies were really good. Then we sat a chatted for a while, 5 hours! I really like the owners and their family. They are good people.
On Christmas Eve we decided to try making cornish hens. I have never had them. We got 4 and made them in my roaster pan. They turned out really good. I even made gravy from the drippings, another 1st for me. Later that night we tried to talk with Meric's family online. I say tried because it was kinda crazy at Meric's parents house in WA, we couldn't always hear Deric's family in AZ and Briton's family in the Marshall Islands were having troubles getting on to oovoo with the rest of us. Briton's family was able to get onto Skype so Meric and I decided to switch over and just talk to them. It was kinda nice to see and talk with them again.
On Christmas morning Meric and I opened our stocking presents and watched Forgotten Carols while we ate fruit flautas. We then talked with my family online and watched as everyone opened presents. Later we called Meric's family again and chatted with them and opened more presents. I love technology and the fact that Meric and I in KY can talk with all of our family wherever they may live. It really was an enjoyable Christmas holiday.
Meric took the whole week after Christmas off. We spent most of the time eating and playing games. The owners of the campground told us about a Christmas light display in town that we went and checked out. There is a lake recreation area in Etown that puts on a gigantic light display you can drive through every year. Buisnesses and churches all contribute their own displays. It was really a cool display. One even had you tune your radio to a certain frequency and their light display flashed insync with the music. It is definitely something we will do again next year.
For New Years Eve some of the seasonal campers came back for a get together. We spent the evening hanging out by the fire and talking with our neighbors. It was a lot of fun and nice to get to know more people better. I can't believe that 2011 is gone, it went by so fast. I know that 2012 will hold some challenges but I look forward to the adventure!
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