Christmas 2011

This Christmas was a big one. We stayed here in Phoenix with Brian's family. We started off Christmas Eve with the usual dinner and "Grab-Bag". This year's dinner we went to Benihana's (my first time there). Mya and her boy's wore their matching snowman pajamas to bed while they waited for Santa to come and leave their gifts. Santa brought Mya a rocking horse this year that has really ugly, non-matching, uneven eyes so mommy will be fixing those babies! Mya got a whole boat load of noisy gifts this year. The only ones that didn't make a single sound were her rocking horse and her first baby doll, which she absolutely adores and is just as big as her. Daddy went so far out of budget this year and got Mommy her camera she has been wanting forever. I am getting used to it and figuring it out so from now on there will be 900 pictures per post instead of just 9. Once I get the technique down I'll adventure out and maybe figure out a way to save up for Photoshop and some other essentials for good photos. I never want to have to pay for a photographer for pictures again. Well maybe for Mya's wedding and that's it. Scratch that she isn't getting married or ever dating for that matter. I got to update my Christmas tree this year to a little more modern and less traditional. We decided to go with a turquoise to match my turquoise wall and added touches of green once we found the cute giant candy canes. I couldn't really capture the beauty of the tree with the flash directly on it or with no flash so it's a really cruddy picture of our pretty tree. Now that I have read a few things about flash I should put my tree back up and try it again. Nah! I'll wait 11 more months. Brian was so excited to have a house again this year to decorate. He was a little bummed last year that we couldn't really Griswold the apartment last year and Jamie didn't really want her house looking like the Northern Star. Mya finally got to meet Santa this year at Bass Pro Shops since last year we didn't get home and settled in quick enough to go and meet him. She did really well but wouldn't smile because she was being so observant to all the hustle and bustle that was going on. Before Kate headed back out to Utah we decided to squeeze in sometime to hang out and see what the Glendale Glitters was all about. It was a nice relaxing evening but the best part is always when Pop's tops it off with yelling random things to people out the window. We can't wait until this next Christmas to see what fun and joy it brings.