This Christmas Season

This Christmas season has been different from the past 2 years we've been married. First of, we haven't had to scrounge for money to get presents. With that, Dave has been traveling a lot. So this year feels more lonely than anything for the both of us. Luckily Dave has Christmas off.
The second thing we did different this year is we had a Christmas party. It was sooo much fun. We had some close friends over and had a pot luck dinner, played a white elephant game and played Telestrations. Then some people stayed after the party and had a post party and played the Kinect. It was such a blast we decided we will be having a New Years Eve party too.
When Dave is gone, my friend Chelsee comes that day and stays with me till the day he gets back so I'm not lonely. We have had quite the times.
From making a gingerbread village

to stockings

to buying cute stuff for the foot locker my mom brought me,

to buying mumus, and baking cookies.


And lets just say, When he was getting back from his last case, I thought I'd get him really good and give him an "early christmas present" but was I wrong! This was out on the counter waiting for him

and I was up the stairs hiding watching him read the paper and then I shot him in the back like 10 times then he turned around with a pouty face and FLOWERS!!! What in the name of Sam Hill was I supposed to think?! Haha. so all I could do is stand there in shock. Long story short. Dave won.
And some good news, WERE EXPECTING .. an ipad. Thats right, an ipad. In the mail some time in the next 2 weeks. Dave was so awesome at work, they decided he deserves one. And it couldn't be any more perfect timing, I can use it for school starting in February.
Well, we hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
P.S. This computer sucks, so sorry the pictures with this post are not perfectly together.