Holiday Festivities!

   The Holidays have gone and i'm still looking at a month of break while everyone else goes back to school. I'm anticipating a little boredom but so glad i get to relax before the next semester.

   Christmas this year was so fun and relaxing... i think my favorite part of Christmas day is waking up late and doing nothing all day but eating and opening presents. This year we added Sunday morning church and invited our tenant from downstairs to have dinner with us.

Our always funny looking Christmas tree

Gingerbread men!   

 

The space was suppose to be for the tree but it just ended up
looking awkward...

   This year i ended up seeing New Years Eve and Holiday Inn. Each year i feel this gigantic pressure to have the most fun i have ever had on New Year's Eve. I guess it would be easier to have the "movie" kind of fun if i was the type of person to make out with whoever or fall in love in two seconds... (both are still fun movies to watch).
   We spent New Years Eve with my family down in Portland, Oregon! I always love visiting them and catching up. This was probably one of the best New Year's i have had and it was so simple and had absolutely no pressure. We went to my cousins basketball game, agreed to ALL see War Horse, played a ton of Carcassonne,  The Game of Things, drank Diet Coke, each ate a pound of cookies, DIDN'T do karaoke (which is really weird), and laughed... a lot. My sister's boyfriend also got to celebrate the New Year with us which was fun!

New Years Eve Chinese food!!
(not quite PC)

Harmony Ear Candles

  We bought these candles that you are suppose to put in your ears and burn. It's suppose to create a vacuum which sucks up your ear wax. We each did it to both our ears and got some pretty nasty looking red wax out of each candle. We ended up trying an experiment and burned one while it just sat in an empty can of Coke. We got the same results and all ended up pretty disappointed that it didn't really work....
   Life is hard when your a skeptic

   Before midnight we played a game and hopped into the hot tub while the Aunts and Uncles built a fire outside next to us. We drank some sparkling cider and laughed our heads off while welcoming in the New Year with family, cider, a fire, Christmas lights all around, and a game of "Who would die first in a Horror movie" (I was the last one alive).

Countdown to 2012!

P.S.

   ladies... My cousin Chris (pictured front left) is unfortunately taken... i believe this pose was for his girlfriend.