Christmastime again!!

This past weekend Mav and I hosted Christmas for my family. We were all here in Beulah and had a perfect Christmas Eve. We decorated cookies, had a yummy steak dinner, went to Mass, took our Christmas pictures, and opened presents (of course the "kids" went first)!! It felt so good to be surrounded by family and we had a really nice weekend just enjoying each other's company!

Christmas with the kids!!

Mav and I went home to Williston this past weekend to spend an early Christmas with his family. We spent Saturday night with Mav's entire family, including six kids amped up on sugar and the prospect of opening presents. Simply put, this equaled smiling, running, screaming, laughing, CHAOS!! Oh but so much fun for us to watch!! We wanted to let the kids open the presents from us while we were there, so they were promised they could open them AS SOON as they tree was decorated. They all pitched in and hung ornaments and took time out to ham for the camera. It took all of 5 minutes for them to open the gifts but what a joy to see them so happy and excited!!! Their sweet little faces remind us what Christmas is all about and we love them to pieces!!

Our biggest purchase this year!

We found a house! As of today, Mav and I are the proud owners of a new house in Jamestown! (I am for the moment forgetting the fact that I still own a house in Beulah - ahhh!) We are soooo excited and are hoping to close in the middle of January. My mom has said she is already excited to paint and I am going to hold her to that! I have attached a few pics that the sellers had on the internet. It's a split level, 4 bed, 3 bath and on almost 1/2 acre. We can't wait to be settled in our new home!

I'll be home for Christmas

I love real Christmas trees!! And this year, I have two! Mav broke down and let me buy a small 2nd tree to put in the basement (only because we found one for $9.99). I love the way they smell and the way that they look all decorated! I am only posting a pic of the one upstairs as the small tree downstairs looks a little sad this year. I have to collect/buy some more ornaments to cover the tree and buy a worthy tree stand. Short version of this catastrophe: I decorated tree, tree fell down, all but like three ornaments fell off, we screwed tree stand to a piece of plywood, I redecorated, and then vacuumed for a total of FOREVER to get all the needles up. Silver lining: none of my ornaments broke AND because I didn't have many to begin with, it didn't take long to get them all back on.
Even after all that, I still love real Christmas trees!!!