It's the most wonderful time of the year

Merry (late) Christmas and happy holidays!! Now that the post-Christmas depression is setting in, I've had time to reflect on yesterday's events. Actually there wasn't much that went on, I was just thinking of how thankful I am. Let's get started with Christmas Eve night though.


On Christmas Eve, we went to my mom's parents' house. Once we got there around 5, we hung out with all our cousins and aunts and uncles. We eat dinner first and then open presents. So after we played Apples to Apples for a while, my aunt Tracy called us into the kitchen to load up our plates. There was a dinner of sloppy joe's, lots of different salads, cookies, chips, and more. We all got our fill and went on into the living room again to wait and open our gifts. This year we all chose one name and that was our person we gave our gift to. It wasn't really a secret santa exchange, though. I got my cousin Natalee and I got her some tea, a scarf and a bracelet. She really liked them so I'm glad about that! I got earmuffs that play music from my ipod and gloves from my grandma. I also got pajamas, which I'm wearing right now. They are so furry and comfortable.

Once we got home around 8, we all (all being my 2 sisters, my brother and his girlfriend) piled into my room and set up camp in there. It's a Christmas tradition to sleep on my bedroom floor which we call herberber for no reason. We've done it for around 4 years now. So we all went in there at 10:30 and talked until about 12, then we all fell asleep. Of course I woke up at 2 AM because my brother was snoring. I fell right back asleep and then we all woke up at 5:30 to open presents. Sometimes it's as early 3, but this year it was later. Once we were all up and ready to open presents it was 6 AM. So after we opened presents we ate cinnamon rolls.

They were really really good. And

home-made.

I pretty much played around on my iPod all day and took random pictures. 

A Christmas ornament on our tree

.

2 CD's I got. One is 'Made In Heaven' and the

other is 'Innuendo'.

My dad's parents' very lovely

Christmas tree.

Then around 6 we went to my dad's parents' house, who live next door, and ate dinner and opened presents there. I hung out with my cousins there and had a great time.

That's me on the left, and Lilli

on the right.

Then today, post-Christmas depression set in. I'm really too tired to do anything and I miss the celebrations. But the good news is that we get to bring home our cat soon, Belle. The shelter was supposed to call today but they never did so my dad called and left a message saying we were supposed to go pick her up today. Hopefully they call tomorrow because I really just want to bring her home soon. That way my sisters can enjoy spending time with her while they are still home from college!

I hope you all had a lovely holiday break and get to enjoy all the gifts you've gotten, and all the time you got to hopefully spend with family. Happy holidays!