Merry Merry Merry Merry Merry Christmas!

I couldn't sleep almost at all; part excitement, part not feeling well. Martin's alarm went off at 7:30 and he got up to wrap my presents while I put his presents under the tree, and stuffed the stockings. He finished about 8:30 and we started our Christmas morning.

Seth left this for us under the Christmas tree this morning. Dr. Pepper is Martin's favorite!

Our Stockings.

Presents under the tree.

Martin with his presents

Me with my Christmas presents in my Christmas jammies.
Abbi opening her presents!!
She loved it!

Martin's presents: Wireless mouse, 2 hoodies, longsleeve collared shirt, book, travel mugs, 20 questions, pajamas, socks, undershirts, sweater, candy, belt, 2 jaguar cars, and the rice is for a heat pack that I've been meaning to make, but ran out of time.

My presents: Christmas dishes from Tai Pan Trading that I'm in love with, 5 shirts, scarf, fuzzy socks, fuzzy blanket, lemon heads, kisses, and a 22oo piece scrapbook kit with TONS of rub-ons that make me very happy!

Abbi's presents: The brown toys were in her stocking, a big busy bone, 2 smaller busy bones, and beggin strips.

I think our Christmas turned out great! This was our first Christmas alone together. Our first Christmas together was when we were engaged, and we spent the morning at Mom and Doug's house. Last year Martin's parents were here. It was so fun, and Martin is the cutest thing! He did such a good job with my presents, I was completely surprised with all of them, and I love them all!

After we opened presents Martin went back to bed to try to stay on his regular schedule from working the night shift, and I took a little nap. When I woke up Mom had called and wanted me to go with her and Doug to Gayla's house and Jason's house to see what everyone had gotten for Christmas. Both of their families had an excellent Christmas, and they must have been good because Santa brought them great gifts!

Mom took me home and I woke Martin up and we headed over to Mom and Doug's house for breakfast (at 2:30 pm.) We saw what they got, made/ate breakfast, and Martin helped to set up Mom's new laptop, and Doug's new LCD computer monitor. We left about 8:30ish and have been relaxing and enjoying the rest of our Christmas together.

"Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night"

Christmas Eve

Christmas eve is our family's big day that we have dinner and open presents. We had all of my family plus Grandma Mills, and all of Doug's and grandkids that live in Utah. Total of 27 people! Gayla also brought their new Christmas puppy, Minnie. Mom recently had surgery on her foot and couldn't be up for very long so we all pitched in and made Christmas dinner.

Our Christmas Picture.

Christmas Eve presents. Greg Olsen 2007 calendar, really nice Doctrine and Covenants book, Pirates of the Carribean movie, Christmas poem, A Father's Greatest Gift book (I'm really excited to read it,) Lifesavers story books (a Christmas tradition,) screwdriver set for Martin, and a calendar Sara made for me that matches my purse. We also got a box of oranges, a case of green beans, a case of corn, and a bunch of meat. MMM we're stocked for a while!!

Christmas Eve, Eve

The 23rd Kara and Mike invited us over for dinner and exchanging of gifts. Martin was sick so he couldn't go, but I went and Kara made some yummy dinner AND cookies!!

These are the gifts they gave us. Awesome dice, and bags to hold them, and a dog bone punch for me!! I love it! They are so awesome to us!

Star of Wonder

Every Christmas my huge extended family gets together for The Little Star Party. For as long as I can remeber we've had this party. Grandma and Grandpa Mills (when he was here) would wrap enough presents for everyone. Generally stuffed animals or something small. Then they hand presents out to everyone, and then Grandma would read the Story of the Little Star. (If I can find it I'll post it on here.) Basically every time the word Star is read, you pass the present to the person next to you, at the end of the story the present you are holding you can open. Our presents this year were star ornaments with snowmen on them. Very cute.

My Grandma is getting older and can't talk very loud so my mom read the story this year.

Martin and I. (I'm so sick of my hair, I hate it!)
Martin with my cousin Keri's baby Aiden. Awww. I haven't seen Martin hold a little baby ever. Sam was about 6 or 7 months old when we were dating. He was super cute with him, but didn't know quite what to do. Adorable!!
Us in front of the Christmas Tree at my Grandma's apartments. Notice how I have no coat and wearing flip flops when it's 32 degrees outside.

Winter Wonderland

This is from the first snowfall of the season, like a week or so ago.

The were cute in the snow, running and sliding. Abbi liked to eat the snow.

These pictures they are looking at each other, and Puck is getting ready to pounce.

...A Lot Like Christmas

I've been meaning to put my Christmas tree up since Thanksgiving and have just now gotten around to it. It also took me a while to convince my brother into letting me put it up in the living room. So there will be two trees in there this year. I didn't want to put it in the family room or downstairs because the dogs would get to it, and it wouldn't fit in our room.

The teddy bears I have gotten for Christmas from my mom for the last 12 years. I have 1994-2004. Then I'm missing 2005, because my mom wasn't going to get it for me because I was married, and I didn't get it because I have so many. Then she bought me one this year. I guess she forgot. So now I'm tempted to buy a 2005 one off of E-bay...