This Christmas was
so nice, and pretty much stress free. I got all of my shopping done early, and we stuck to our budget this year! The only hard part about being done so early was that I had the hardest time waiting to actually give Dan his gifts! I was up almost all night Christmas Eve because I was so excited; I felt six years old all over again. I had prepared a little scavenger clue hunt around our house for his main gift. They were quite clever...if you ask me :) I hid the bat well, at the bottom of our linen closet behind some sheets. (thank goodness because Dan confessed he had been searching for it around the house...after he gave me the "no peeking" lecture.)
Introducing The Worth Mayhem 120 aka the green booger. I cannot count how many home runs Dan has hit with this bat. He is very excited to use it this summer! He also got a nice shirt, some shoes, racket ball supplies, softballs, and some Jordan shorts. I was just as equally ecstatic about my gifts. He got me a new Kodak camera that is thinner that my cell phone so I can easily take it anywhere instead of hauling along our nice, but gia-nourmous Fujifilm. It takes awesome pics. I also got a wool coat, a "Taste of Home"cookbook, the last Michael Crichton book, "Pirate Latitudes", and a way cute purse!
After opening our gifts to each other we went to Payson to spend time with our families. Dan's mom makes her famous egg casserole breakfast every Christmas. It is so delicious! We opened gifts, ate lots of yummy food, including a yummy yaki niku lunch, and played ping pong; we also went and saw Sherlock Holmes with Lorin and Sue. Dan's family got a wii for Christmas so we spent a lot of time playing "Smash Brothers" and "Mario Cart"; the wii Sports was also fun! Dan's younger bro Jake got a skateboarding game for his xbox, and Dan had fun playing with him!
Later that night we went to Matt and Cathy's house to exchange gifts. We got a really special present from Matt and Cathy. This picture:
in a nice frame, with each of their testimonies and a neat story. Thank you Cathy for that very thoughtful gift! We draw "pixies" each year, and get that person/family a present instead of getting every sibling in the family a present. This year our pixie was Mandy and Neil. We got them a gift certificate to Los Hermanos because they just had a new baby and if I were a mom of two, I would want a night out with my hubby! Kelee had Dan and me for her pixie. She gave us the cutest Eternal Family picture frame. David came over and it was nice to spend time with family and play with the kiddos.
Today it dumped! And as much as I hate the snow, it looked too fun to resist, so I bundled myself up, and took Yuki outside to play! I realized I am kinda short of snow gear. I don't own boots, or snow pants-but Dan's fit if I rolled the waist a few times, and I couldn't find matching gloves (well I used to before Yuki came along...she thinks she can chew on anything that she finds; hence the reason I am only wearing one glove). The difference between playing in the snow at age 22 versus when I was a kid is that the fun only lasted about ten minutes before I was ready to come in. Yuki is so funny in the snow; she will be running full speed while at the same time trying to eat as much snow on the ground as she can. If you kick the snow up at her she tries to catch it and ends up doing flips in the air. Dan was stuck shoveling for most of the afternoon, but he came and took a few cute pics for me :)
I like to move it move it, JK-Dan happened to take this picture at the exact moment I started to slip
