We spent Christmas Eve-as we always do-with my family @ my mom's house. We missed Eric and Heather & it was the first Christmas I can remember that my dad wasn't up from Las Vegas. Like usual, mom went all out!
Grandma Ella and Cassidy are best buds. Cassidy got a cute Cabbage Patch Kid baby doll that I fell in love with!
Baby Hubert got a few gifts, too. One was a cute Build-a-Bear Spiderman bear. Zach and Hilary's baby Cash got a Chicago Bears Bear. Too cute!
Part of our dinner festivities was the use of fondue pots with cheese and chocolate desert. Cassidy and I totally devoured the chocolate fondue! My favorite, by far, was the bannanas and C liked the marshmallows. As my mom commented as I went crazy for the fondue, it was seriouslly the only thing that has tasted really good for weeks!! This was a fun change to the normal Christmas Eve dinner, a new tradition, I think! 
Ben got a little gardner man ornament this year because he's really become quite the green thumb, changed his major to horticulture, and has worked this year at Western Gardens.
My ornament was the cute pregnant snowgirl with an icecream cone w/ pickles in her hand. I will hang this with pride on my tree every year to remember that I was pregnant with my first child on Christmas!
Christmas morning at our house was simple and low key. We snuggled up and opened a few presents before heading over to the parent's Hubert for our third and final Christmas celebration. 
Ben was in desperate need of some new t-shirts. I got him a few as well as a alarm/docking station for his Zune--his current obsession. It was a fun surprise for him! 
Ben got me a new flat screen computer monitor. He uses the one that came with the computer my dad gave me a little while back and with my new computer desk, I needed a smaller monitor so I'd have some more space. I love it!
I got another FUN surprise at the Hubert's with a Sony Digital Reader (very similar to the Kindle that I obsessed about a little bit ago). It was a joint present from B, his parents, and my mom. When I opened it I said, "Shut up! No way!" I was SO excited. It is my new obsession and I spent the evening last night uploading 11 new books...and it only cost me $18!!!! What's better? It's RED!!!
We got baby Liam a cute red snow suit. He's the cutest little guy ever!!!
Here's Brandon on the phone with Elder Hubert in Australia! We all got to talk to him for a bit and I think the entire phone call was about 2 hours. He's doing awesome and has even picked up the tiniest hint of an Aussie accent...he says "mate" at the end of everything! I'm super proud of him, but we definitely missed him being around for the holiday. Just one more Christmas without him!!!We drove home last night in a snow storm. We got home to several inches of snow in the driveway. We woke up to this....
I hope everyone else had a great holiday with family!! I'm thrilled to know that I have one more week off of work. We're gearing up for a fun trip to Las Vegas with some friends for New Years & a visit with my dad.
2 comments:
Wow--I'm sad that I missed all the stuff you had fun doing during the holiday--but not sad that I missed the snow. That's really deep in your front yard. Drive carefully on your way down here..looking forward to spending some time with you
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Thank you for the gifts! I think I've finally cleaned the trunk out enough to fit the barstools in.. LOL. And I love the vases! Hooray, time to decorate my kitchen!
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