Friday, December 26, 2008

Wonderful Christmas

John, Heather and I opened up our gifts on Christmas Eve. We traditionally open our stockings on Christmas Eve, but it usally turns into "hey, we should open our presents too", so we did. Then yesterday morning Jess came over and we helped the Babe open all her gifts, cause she wasn't too interested in that yet. Then we went over to Jack and Sharons to be with the rest of the family. This year I got:

  • DVD's: Phantom of the Opera (Gerard Butler), Mama Mia, Atonement and Pride and Prejudice both with Keira Knightly
  • Candles, Incense
  • A cool change purse with a peace sign on the front
  • Gift cards: Blockbuster, movie tickets, and Bimart
  • A cool picture collage frame
  • Vegan box of chocolates.....they were so good (yes, already ate them up)
  • A bunch of awesome scrapping stuff
  • Adele:19 CD, I LOVE this CD. It's all I've been listening to for two days now
  • A big box of oranges, I look forward to that every year

We also have a tradition that started with our first Christmas together, and it is to get an ornament that is dated. We have a very random decorated tree, ornaments ranging from an orca to a ship. This year we didn't get our ornament because of all of the ice. I was just saying to John yesterday morning how we needed to see if we could still find a 2008 ornament. Well, Ethan painted ornaments and gave them to everyone yesterday, and on the back of it, it has his name and 2008. That was very surprising, so we now have our ornament for this year. We ended the day yesterday observing birds in the backyard. Sharon has so many different kinds of birds, it was really fun. When we got home, we of course gamed until bed, I finished my Dragonlance Test of the Twins book, and am going to start Dragons of the Dwarven Depths tonight. Heathers girlfriend came over last night and brought homeade taffy, so our house smelled really yummy all night, so that was cool too. Had a great holiday!

Becca made this doll for Jen, I had to take a picture......

Me and John in front of our fireplace....

Jessica opened up her tag maker from Creative Memories, I couldn't wait to see her open it!

Making music with the table....

Brittany listened to her tunes pretty much the whole time.....

6 comments:

Ajedrez said...

"WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS"
MERRY CHRISTMAS, TAMMY
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Jay Andrew said...

There we go again - you got Phanatom for Xmas and BC has lent it to me to watch! We should synchronise watching it so we can "ooh" and "aah" at the same time!
Yay on the Adele CD too - I keep meaning to get a copy.
Looks like you had a fabby time.

Jennifer Evans said...

Hey! You got P&P! The best gift ever! ;) So glad you and John like your gift from Ethan. Really, it was the only craft he liked doing all month! Ha!

Marsha said...

Looks like you had a very Merry Day indeed. Our plans got a little screwd up but it was all good in the end!

Rebecca Grinder said...

Wow... I feel famous! My doll made it on your blog! ;) So sweet!

Jessica Gray said...

I loved the Tag maker thank you thank you. Christmas was awesome! I love that you where able to get the music table the babes had so much fun just banging the table.... Ethan "Again!" was so cute