1 Month and 16 days ago...

it was CHRISTMAS WEEKEND!

holy moly. our christmas weekend came and passed like a son of a gun.
let me give you the gist.

friday before christmas:

we went ice skating with my parents and little brother...
it was fun until my mom fell and smacked her head on the ice. poor thing.

christmas eve:

we went to my aunts house to decorate cookies... but we showed up late. we didn't get to decorate them. but we did get to eat them.

then we went to my parents' to hang out and we all made a ginger bread house together as we laughed and giggled.

we went to visit this house for their awesome christmas light display. there were TONS of people lined up blocks and blocks away. we were lucky and got a great parking spot.

 we toasted with champagne glasses full of orange julius. and watched the nativity story.

christmas day:

christmas day was on sunday this year. we had church at 9:00 so we got up a little early so we could open presents before church.

i was expecting the new computer ryan was building for christmas... but when ryan came down stairs to start breakfast he pulled out a present from the "spider closet" (which i am sure is pretty self explanatory) and put it under the tree before i saw. he said it was from santa.

he opened his presents first. he said his favorite was his new tools!

then it was MY turn. i thought it was probably some slippers i tried on when we went shopping for family together. they were so fuzzy and soft. even after i opened it i was thinking it was fuzzy slippers. i was smiling. and i said aww. but then i saw Nikon on the box. i was in total shock! and then i started to cry. it was a brand new D3100 Nikon camera with a brand new camera case to carry it in. how sweet. it was awesome!

after church we went to to my parents' and opened presents. and later we had fondue. it kinda started to be a tradition at my mom's it was so much fun.

ryan was really cold. and i thought he looked really cute :)

it was a fabulous christmas!