i try. i make mistakes. i grow. i love. i love to eat pineapple. i cook and bake whenever i can. thai food is good for my soul. i collect blankets, sweat pants, and crazy socks. i believed i was peter pan when i was a child. i love to love. summertime is my favorite. i love feeling the sun on my face. i have a lot of good intentions. i had a bull cut when i was younger. shakespeare was a genius. i love to laugh. God is everywhere. i love having painted toes. i am very blessed, and i try to "live life, every, every moment"

Friday, December 25, 2009

MERRY CHRISTMAS! (Really!)

It's Christmas time! I can't believe this year has gone by as fast as it did. There are so many things that happened this year, just thinking about writing it all down for a quick little "re-cap" makes me a little discouraged. Never fear, something of that nature will come sooner or later. I don't have much time because my family and I are about to start our annual fix of "24", but I wanted to write just a bit about how wonderful today was!


As you can see, that clock says 6:00. Yes, that is what time we wake up Christmas morning to open presents. Don't ask me how that got started, but I ONLY remember opening presents that early. I usually don't have a problem falling asleep or waking up during the night before Christmas, but I do have to keep in mind that I still have a 13 year old brother who was soooo excited last night. (sometimes I wish i was younger again, just to feel like that!)

Usually at 6:00 in the morning, it's like pulling teeth getting everybody out of bed (Even though we all secretly LOVE IT). My parents take FOREVER, and everybody is so groggy. I view Christmas as the only day that I can jump on everybody's bed in the morning to wake them up, and NOT get in the least bit of trouble for it! Unfortunately, that luxury was not given to me today, because BOTH my parents were ALREADY awake and ready to go, and my siblings were just waiting in bed. Talk about disappointing...

Christmas was absolutely wonderful. And not even the gifts. I mean, don't get me wrong, that was all amazing, and I feel so grateful to have such wonderful parents who care so much about us. But just being with the family was FUN. Sometimes (hahaha), we have such a good time together, and today was one of those days. I am going to leave this post for now and just post some pictures of the day. (Which included TWO SEPARATE NAPS for me....) Merry Christmas!


Santa came to visit! Thank goodness, I was worried for a moment...


My mom took this picture. It's blurry because she was wearing her reading glasses and focused the camera according to that.


We always go to the Tree Room in Sundance for our Big dinner of the year. Here are all the "kids".


My amazing parents!


Can you tell we are related? Yeah, me too...

MERRY CHRISTMAS! I HOPE YOU ALL HAD A WONDERFUL DAY!

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