Christmas and New Years!

OUR FIRST ENGAGED Christmas and New Years!

With our usual December 'get away' vacation in the beginning of the month, our December flew by quicker than usual! I dont think that we were the only ones, I hope we werent! We didn't even get time to put up the Christmas Lights! Darn. Mike and my dad had an ongoing dispute whether we needed more Christmas lights. He thought for sure we needed more, but Michael's resounding 'no' was to no avail and I am pretty sure that my dad ended up leaving us about 3 extra strands of lights. Not that we need them, I keep forgetting that we have so many and always stock up for some reason. "Stocking up for the depression", as my grandma Eltrich would say while packing katsup samples in her purse at McDonald's. It must be in the family.

The week that we got home, Mike and the boys went to the tree lot without me to buy our tree. Well, as you can see..."it wasnt such a bad little tree"...

The top 3 reasons when I gasped in shock at the sight of our Christmas tree?

-Mike accused the lot attendant had the tree propped up on one side...

-he was in a hurry because Landen forgot his coat at school and it happened to be pouring down rain...

-He let the boys pick it out. Well, after the initial shock dissapaited, we had a good laugh and I thanked the boys for such a unique tree that we will likely not forget!

We were lucky to get to go to the Singing Christmas tree with Caroline, Jim, Mom, Dad and Judy and Greg. It was nice, I haven't seen it since I was in High School.

Christmas was busy busy. We were so excited to have the boys on Christmas Eve and were able to have a great time with the Eltrich family. Saturday, we even went to my mom and dad's house to have a little Christmas in their new home.

One short week later we celebrated New Years at Jazzbones with Paul and Bridget.