Sunday, December 27, 2009

My First Married Christmas

This may seem silly to those who have been married awhile or to those who have never been married, but I was really, really excited about our first Christmas as a married couple. For some reason it just seemed to be more calm and relaxed than our holidays when we were dating/engaged. Which is totally ok with me because I don’t like the crazy expectations that Christmas can bring.

Daniel had to work until 1 pm or so on Christmas Eve, and I just lounged around a bit. Then when he got home, we took a nap. I LOVE naps!

Finally it was time to get ready, which for me means shower, straighten hair, put on makeup, put on 4 different outfits only to end up wearing the 1st one I put on. For him means splashing on some cologne.

Then it was time for the obligatory self-portrait shots:

100_8891

100_8910

100_8904

And we were off to his grandma’s house at 7:30 or so for the annual let’s-fit-30-people-in-a-tiny-house-and-open-gifts thing. It’s so crowded, but there’s truly no other way to do it, and it’s always a blast!

There’s lots of uncles (Mando is below!) and lots of picture taking:

100_8935

Cousins:

100_8936

And more cousins:

100_8937

My beautiful, gorgeous, cute-as-ever nephew:

100_8951

100_8975

100_8955

Siblings:

100_8988

100_9006

100_8985

TONS OF GIFTS (guess which is one of mine…come on, guess…)

100_8940

Pretty tree:

100_8945

Lots of staged family portraits:

100_9038

And even a wedding proposal! Here, Aunt Cindy is opening up her engagement ring- you can see how excited her daughter is on the far left:

100_9012

So, we had a lot of fun there, but we chose to open our gifts to each other alone at home late in the evening.

100_8918

100_9046

Daniel loving his new after-shave balm from Victoria’s Secret. It’s called Vertical- Pee Wee bought it for him.

100_9051

Santa Paws bought me something, too:

100_9044

Funniest pic EVER! Look at my son and I. Hilarious.

100_9059

100_9060

Daniel excited about his new thongs underwear.

100_9064

And socks. Can’t forget the socks. We’re practical people.

100_9058

Then I opened up my next gift:

100_9055

Ummm…

100_9065

Here’s what was inside the box. Sneaky hubby!

100_9066

Hubby is apparently like seriously freakin’ excited about his new desk chair. He’d been sitting on my big, fluffy Home Goods Chair:

100_9072

2 of my 3 fave boys:

100_9077

Here’s the third:

100_8986

100_8949

Pee Wee getting tired.

100_9074

“Dear God, Please break mom’s camera and close her Best Buy account so she CANNOT afford another. Love, PW”

100_9085

And another self-portrait…

100_8889

Or two…

100_8912

And Christmas Eve was over!

My mom then drove down from San Antonio on Christmas Day, so here are some pictures from her visit!

My mom and my little fur bro, Elmo:

100_9099

Daniel and Santa Paws:

100_9107

Elmo von Yorkie:

100_9129

Me!

100_9113

Gotta love gift cards!

100_9116

Pee Wee loving his toys:

100_9141

100_9143

And that’s it!

I hope you had a beautiful Christmas/holiday! What did Santa bring you? I love that Santa, Santa Paws, and friends/family all bought me stuff I needed rather than wanted! It’s so nice to have new sweatpants, new workout game, and other stuff that I would probably never buy myself because it’s simply too practical.

I feel old.

And my gorgeous nephew gave me baby rabies.

Oh my ovaries.

0 comments: