Friday, January 4, 2008

good bye christmas...

today i took down the tree... and i feel much better... christmas is so weird.


don't get me wrong i love all the holiday hub bub as much as any other american but as i get older things just are'nt the same.... i guess the magic has been lost for me.


We did have an awesome christmas though. We did all the christmas crap, went and saw the lights... visited santa, hung out with friends and family.....


This year I decided we should stretch it out the holiday fun, and forced my mom into having a christmas eve eve.... it was actually really fun....For many years I lived away from home, so christmas to me was always a vacation, at least a week of rest and relaxation....next year I think we will do the same christmas eve eve... and than head to cali to spend the holiday with b's family... it is only fair, he has been up here for the last three....


I was lucky enough to have my two younger sisters in town for two weeks ... Jo went back to bellvue on tuesday, and becki left for texas on wednesday... thursday was a very sad day for me... but that is okay I will see them both soon enough...


We did a handmade gift exchange instead of our usual pick names, it was super fun... and I think everyone had a good time making there gift. We had paintings, birdhouses, quilts, mosaics... it was really fun. I ended up with a very nice frame, which framed 2 five dollar bills, and a ten.... john felt his money qualified as a handmade gift, since he did make it with his own two hands... very nice...


One of the coolest gifts I did this year was a custom made hat for B... it was one of those things that could have gone either way... looking really bad or really good... thankfully it turned out really good...