Christmas Time Was Here...

We started our Christmas celebrating on Christmas Eve by heading over to Nick's Grandma's house for dinner. We had a great time playing a game, eating good food, catching up with each other, and exchanging gifts. Braelynn, our niece, made out like a bandit but I think that she may have enjoyed the paper and boxes more than her presents. It so fun to see how big she's getting. My favorite part of the night is a tie between Nick and his brother discussing what Barbie's little sister was named and Nick putting together all of Braelynn's new toys including her bike.

On Christmas morning Nick and I woke up and looked through our stockings and opened the few presents we had under the tree. Nick indulged me this year and filled my stocking with tons of silly things including a back massager and three Tim Burton movies...I was wonderfuly spoiled. We started a tradition on our first Christmas that I buy Nick a Christmas book each year. This year I was excited to buy a children's book. We are now the proud owners of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and I think next year I might go for the Polar Express. After we opened everything we headed over to my parent's for breakfast and more gift opening...seriously spoiled. Dad then took us to the movie's followed by challenging us to some Wii bowling. We had a great dinner with most of my family and then headed home to end the night with The Nightmare Before Christmas.

We had a great christmas this year and can't wait for the new year. We hope that you are having an equally great holiday season.

My Tim Burton Christmas

I not so secretly love Tim Burton. Nick would tell you it's because I like strange, weird, or unusual things and that's mostly true. I think it's amazing that someone's mind is that creative no matter how crazy it is. My mom, knowing this, bought Nick a ornament this year of the Corpse Bride and my little sister bought me the coolest mugs EVER of Jack Skellington. The odd thing is that as much as I enjoy the weirdness I didn't actually own any of the movies. However, on Friday my head teacher bought me the Nightmare Before Christmas for Christmas and then I came home to a disappointed husband who informed me that he had also purchased it for my stocking. Luckily, my head teacher kept the receipt so now I can return one and maybe get The Corpse Bride too. Best Christmas ever so far...

Oh, and not having to do with Tim Burton....my husband is awesome and bought me two new pairs of shoes yesterday, which if you've seen my shoes lately you'd know it was long overdue.... I am eternally grateful.

O Christmas Tree

The tradition continued this year, busted knee and all, to take the trip down to Apple Hill and find this year's Christmas tree. My dad started the tradition a couple of years ago and now every year I look forward to the first Saturday in December for breakfast and the tree hunt. The place that we usually go to for breakfast was closed this year so we went down the street a little bit and found Kathee's Cafe which was just as good and I personally think had better service. Nick loved the "Jeet Yet" sign and laughed because it reminded him of the south. Also the picture of Nick below was taken by Jill...not too bad.

After breakfast we headed down to the Christmas tree farm and took some pictures of the families. Unfortunately the crazy man that took our family picture cut out Mom and most of Dad on my camera.

After the pictures we all went our separate ways to find the perfect tree for each household. Nick and I didn't get a tree here but it was still fun to help everyone else find theirs. Below is some of my FAVORITE pictures from the trip.

We had so much fun spending time with the family. It wore Nick out a little but that just meant to that we got to take a nap when we got home. :)