Christmas Eve

We awoke around 8 to get ready for the day. Nate is more of an early riser than I am, so he was able to be awake and ready to go long before me. We went to his parents' house in Deweyville to surprise Barbara and Larry with their Christmas present. Ashley and I were able to get Barbara down to Ogden for last minute shopping while Nate got his Dad outside to work on his Subaru. All the while... their new oven was delivered out front and put in by Seth without either of them knowing. All the kids pitched in for it.
While we were in Ogden, I bought some stocking stuffers for the night and some sweaters for Nate. We stopped at Wendy's for lunch on the way back to surprise Barbara. Larry couldn't believe it and Barbara screamed in excitement. :) It's a pretty nice one too. Nate and I hung around for a bit more before heading home to celebrate Christmas on our own.
Unfortunately... When I got home, I found my little bunny Duke had died in his cage not long before I got there. I don't know for sure how he died, but I was pretty upset. He was such a good little rabbit, I loved his quirkiness and his soft fluffy coat. Nate got pizza for dinner and then we settled down with some red grape juice and some fancy glasses. Can't get better than that for romance!

While eating out delicious dinner, we watched It's A Wonderful Life 

After we read the Christmas story of Jesus in Luke. As our new tradition goes, we each wrote our gift to Jesus on a piece of paper and stuck it in our gift box. I finished some few things for the following morning and we went to bed.