It's become a tradition (you know, the second year in a row now) for us to go and get a real Christmas tree. Sean loves real trees. I'm impartial*, so real tree it is! I love Christmas weather in Texas, it was 65 degrees the day we picked out our Christmas tree...yes, Sean was in shorts. In Chicago, if it's not negative degrees by this time you are winning.
*I do wish they weren't so messy, but they do smell really nice. That means saving money on Christmas candles...right?
I love Christmas time!
Well, I'm trying to start traditions for us! So, hopefully I can continue this one. Hopefully I don't lose or break these over the years!
We had a few projects going on in our garage. Obviously, cutting the tree, but also putting together our photo booth for our Ugly Christmas Sweater Party 2013! (pics and post to come soon)
I got my first natvity set this year! I was SO excited about it! I've been eying this Willowtree Nativity Set for years.
Merry Christmas to me!
The finished product!
Christmas festivities are not complete without Will Ferrell playing Elf in the background.
The holiday season at work was a lot different this year. The dentist I've worked for the past few years sold his practice. Dr. Doles bought the practice, and I really like him a lot. Dr. Loftus never did Christmas parties (weird) so we had our first Christmas party this year! Dr. Doles treated us all to Mi Cocina (love Mi Cocina), and it went really well!
I got to hang out with Jensen for a night while Lindsay and Evan went to their work Christmas party. I love this little crazy! You have no idea how long it took to take this picture. :)
We went and saw some of the Christmas lights at Frisco square with our besties, Gerret and Sarah. They took us to this great restaurant on the square, yum!
Sarah and I may have forced their hand at getting some frozen custard afterwards...
Unfortunately, not all of our December was fun Christmas festivities. This {insert derogatory adjective} girl hit me on my lunch break. I was innocently driving straight when she made a left turn in front of me. I slammed on my brakes, layed on my horn, and was almost at a complete stop...which didn't slow her down in the least bit. She continued to turn and hit my brand new car. I'm still cursing her in my mind. It's been 9 weeks, and I still don't have my car back.
Sean came a few minutes after the accident happened and I told him what happened. All he asked me was why I was yelling...I told him because I'm furious. Apparently he said I sounded like a psycho. Well, that may be so.
Since Paige and I don't work with each other anymore (still severely depressed about this), we had our own Christmas get together! We exchanged our Christmas gifts, and we rambled on and on about how much we miss seeing each other every day. Sad times.
Sean had his Christmas work party at The House of Blues, down in Dallas. I'm not sure why I didn't get a picture of us...because we looked dang good that night! Probably because it was one of those types of restaurants you feel like an idiot taking a picture (even for me, the girl who has no picture shame). It was a really fun night, and the food was delicious!
I love buying and wrapping Christmas presents for people!
Janene and Aaron had their sweet little twins right around Christmas. We had to go straight to church afterwards, so we couldn't stay for long. It was so good to see them, they're adorable (shocker). Janene is a champ and my future (one day) pregnancy idol.
She's basically amazing!
Christmas Day!!!
This year Sean and I decided to do our own thing. We always get a lot of slack for this...it's not our first time being by ourselves on Christmas. We both have big families, and they're only getting bigger. But, Sean and I are our OWN FAMILY. It may just be the two of us, but I love it. Especially since Sean had gone back to school, we haven't been able to spend a lot of time together, so it was nice to stay home, sleep in, relax, and remember the real meaning of Christmas.
We don't get each other a ton of gifts, but it's fun to exchange a few with each other. I was very excited about getting Sean this watch for Christmas. And if he doesn't like it, he puts on a good show, because he wears it all the time. :)
Whenever it's just the two of us on Christmas, we make a turkey! I grew up having turkey and Christmas, and I love it! Sean and I both agreed this was our best turkey yet! It was absolutely delicious! We're getting pretty good at this. :)
Our Christmas dinner for two.
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!
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