Christmas-continued!

So, I realized I never really described our Christmas/Christmas Eve festivities. After consultation we have decided to be a Christmas Eve Church going family...apparently we are not waiting to open our presents on Christmas for going to Mass! We went to 6p Mass, we originally thought 4p would be better, but 2 of the 3.5 of us were sleeping at 4, so we didn't make the 4 service. But we made it to 6 and Gwen was the best in Church she has been in a long time. She is so funny though, she loves music and when they finished the opening song and she clapped. Fortunately she is not a loud clapper, but she went to Church with me again and clapped again for the opening song but she was facing backward so the Grandma behind her said "Thank you." She also sways and bobs her head when they play the music. She obviously entertained/was entertained by people around her. Mass wasn't super crowded, we were thankful for that!
We came home Gwen had some dinner and then Eric and I feasted on the Christmas Eve shrimp dinner with more butter than you would think is healthy, but it is Christmas! Since we are in MD now, we added crab to it.
Christmas we woke up and had our Christmas butterscotch rolls and opened Christmas presents, Eric covered Gwen's eyes coming down for breakfast, so she wouldn't see all the fun new stuff!
Then Gwen went down for a nap, it ended up being a long-ish nap, from all the excitement, but that is to be expected! It was also a blessing because I needed to cook! We had some friends coming over with their 2 kids the oldest girl is just a couple months older than Gwen, so they had a GREAT time. I swear after dinner they just ran back and forth squealing and giggling and having a great time! We didn't take any pictures, I was too exhausted to get the camera, but they had a great time. They mostly did side-by-side playing, but they are starting to interact more, which is cool to watch. The funniest thing that happened, ok the funniest thing with Gwen was she is obsessed with the baby's car seat, while we were watching her she stuffed everything she could into the top of the carseat, she had moved the shade over so she could really only see through at the top end. We caught Gwen trying to put her ball popper in the car seat, when Jamie tried to clean it out when they were leaving it took her about 5 minutes to clear everything out of there, between the upside down baby doll and the 'small' toys that she got from all over, it was like crazy! The funniest with Eric was that before dinner, I mean as we are sitting down to dinner Eric goes to open one of his homemade beers for our guest, and we in the other room hear a boom and walk into the kitchen and hear dripping and Eric is covered with strawberry beer. And, as I said since we were just sitting down the beer fortunately didn't get on food! But, Eric reports it was like a column of beer spewing out of the bottle. My grout will never be the same!
We had a nice time with our friends and bonus...a couple days after Christmas the best man and his fiancee came to visit! I think a good time was had by all, unfortunately, we didn't get to see them until late in the day so there are no pictures of them and Gwen, it takes her a long time to warm up to people.