Better late than never

Here are some Christmas post. A little late, but here they are finally!
Enjoy....

Christmas

Christmas this year was something new for us. We have never lived away from family and have never had to figure out how to celebrate with family while living away from them! Well we took the week off and went into IF. It was a nice Christmas, we brought all of our presents and opened them Christmas morning at Matt's parents and then spent evening with my family. It was nice and being so far sure makes me appriciate family!

The best part of Christmas was Patrick's present my little sister had gotten him. She bought him a book that helped teach him how to play the guitar.True to her personality she decided to make the present unwrapping funny. She wrapped the book in tissue paper, then in 10 grocery sacks, then with wrapping paper, then put it in a box and then wrapped the box. She was laughing the whole time. It was funny and funnier to watch her think she was so clever than it was to watch Patrick!

Patrick opening his BIG present. He got an Xbox


Matt with his new hat, pretty cute huh?

Me with my new sonicare toothbrush. I love it.

It is blurry, but this patrick opening his clever present. See all the bags on the ground?
Isn't heather funny?

My sisters laughing. Again, Cleaver Heather!

Gingerbread House

Last year at Christmas time we made a gingerbread house. Nothing fancy, just one of those kits you buy at the store. Well I thought it was fun so I wanted to get one again this year and make a new tradition. Well I got one and it sat in our house for about 3 weeks. Then we came into IF sooner than we thought we were going to so I ended up bringing it with us. Finally on Christmas eve we put it together. Now let me tell you I am no Martha Stewart. The roof kept falling off and the candy design is less than desirable, but we sure had fun.
After we were done Matt read the direction. "Let the icing dry before decorating" Is that where we went wrong? HMM... Maybe next year.

Don't we look like we are having fun?

Here it is in all of its glory... Pretty huh?

Gym

In the last part of October I got my family a gym membership. Matt thought it was a ridiculous idea so usually it was just Patrick and I going. Well I finally got Matt to go. He started going on the elliptical machine with me about 2 weeks ago and has turned into a gym rat.
He loves the treadmill. He will go on the elliptical with me for 30 minutes and then he gets on the treadmill. He will walk on it at an incline of 10 and won't stop. Last night after we had been on the treadmill for a while I told him I was done and was going to do some weights in one of the other rooms. Well he got off the treadmill and came with me. While I do weights he got back on the treadmill in that room at an incline of 10 again. It is the craziest thing to watch.
He used to have the mentality of why pay for a gym membership, just go outside and move. Well we were talking about going to IF and he says, "do you think APPLE will give us a 2 day pass?"
What?? My husband is officially a gym rat.

Hair Color

Hair is pretty interesting. I had my hair colored right before Christmas. The colors I picked were golden brown a dark brown and then a few pieces of blond (bleach blond). The girl that did my hair was a little worried about the blond, but it took fabulously. The blond looks like blond, not orange or any tint of orange. However, the golden brown did not come in as it should have. It came in almost a reddish. The color has toned down a little, but in looking at it you would think I tried to go red! Hair sure is funny.