Holidays 2012

This year was the best Christmas yet! I got to spend time with all the people I love and it was just amazing.

Every year my sisters and I get together on Christmas Eve and do what we call "Sister Christmas" because we spend Christmas Day with our families. Every year I get us matching pajamas and we play Monopoly all night (I've won EVERY year) and then we go to Denny's for dinner because it's the only place open at midnight Christmas morning.

(We need a better photographer-everyone wears glasses so none of the photos really came out non blurry

Alyse, me, Jessica Rachel)

Well, this year we had an addition to Sister Christmas. The electricity was out at Adam's apartment Christmas Eve and it broke my heart at the thought of him being alone on Christmas Eve in the cold, and waking up alone Christmas morning. (Now Adam is pretty agnostic, as well as Jewish so Christmas isn't a big deal to him) but he humored me.

My sisters were gracious and kind enough to invite him to sister Christmas and we had a blast.... Until the boy started beating me at my own game. He smoked me in Monopoly and I don't think I will play with him again. I think he cheated- I just can't prove it.

After totally losing at Monopoly off to Denny's we went. The staff there remembers us and our matching pajamas and were waiting for us this year- that was cool. We're like infamous on Christmas Eve at Denny's lol

Rachel and I

Bummed I didn't get a pic with just Alyse and I- but I'll make up for it!

It was about 1:30 in the morning by the time Adam, Jessica, and I got back to our house. I have a very old fashioned family so Adam slept in my bed while Jessica and I crashed together in hers. To say the least it wasn't the most restful sleep ever, and I felt like I had just closed by eyes when I peaked at the alarm clock and it was 7:00 in the morning. It was time for this girl to get out of bed and get the food going.

The rest of the day was spent munching on food, hanging with my sister Jessica who I feel like I never see anymore, enjoying dinner, snuggling with my love and just being happy. 

Jessica and I

I am so blessed to have such an amazing man in my life to share not only the holidays with but the every day struggles too. Together we manage to make almost any situation fun. For example, yesterday it was time to shovel his driveway from all the snow we've had in the last week. He was all macho man "You stay in the house while I go be big man and shovel." So I wasn't to keen on the idea of shoveling so I stayed in the house and straightened it up. I put the kettle on so that he could have something hot to drink by the time he came back in. While the kettle was on I went to the window to check on him and saw what a hard time he was having because there was such a thick layer of ice. We were never going to the driveway clear enough to get my car in but we could make a path so he could be safe coming to and from home. (Adam commutes to work via train, as he lives so close to the train station.) 

So, I started feeling back, turned off the kettle, bundled up and outside I went to be of whatever help I could be. Basically I just cleaned the stairs and attempted to chop through ice so he could then shovel it away. That was until I snowball came flying my way. I picked up a handful of snow to toss back at him, realized it was a chunk of ice and decided to go charging after him. He caught me, lifted me up, and spun me. Holy cow he picked me up!!! I can't/couldn't believe I can be picked up!!! Total NSV! 

Total cheesy situation, and no one ever wants to shovel, but we managed to make it fun doing it together.

I love him.