Having Ourselves a Very Merry Christmas

This evening we find ourselves at the end of Christmas 2007. We're done baking cookies, we're done with eating 10,000 calories a day, done with wrapping, the frantic shopping, done with crafting gifts for family and friends and done with recieving 5 catalogs per day from LL Bean. Now I can sit back, reflect on the season and sigh a great big "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...."

We did have another great Christmas. The girls were spoiled with Nintendo DS games, DVDs, clothing for their American girl dolls, clothing for them, MP3 players and a variety of books. I was bestowed with a Cricut much to my surprise but the biggest of all was my very own American Girl doll, Molly. Growing up I loved dolls and Barbie and when the girls started getting into the American Girl Dolls I was the one having way too much fun dressing them and doing their hair. I've told Nate recently that if I ever ever get the urge to have another baby to just buy me the doll instead. Well, I haven't even mentioned babies and he got me one anyway. What a guy! Nate was given the well intentioned gift of a personal groomer given to him by us as his nose hairs are only slightly scarier than mine.

My mom traveled from Libby to Moscow last Thursday and we had a great time shopping for those last minute gifts, hot tubbing, eating our weight in chocolate and cookies and drinking lots of adult beverages. My brother and his wife, Lisa arrived on Sunday from Boise. We had a ton of fun together and with the glut of presents that were displayed out on two (not one, but two) tables we decided to stretch out the Christmas cheer by opening a present each every couple of hours until this morning. This was great in that we all enjoyed each present for a few hours rather than ripping and tearing all at once.

Sadly, all of our guests retreated back to their homesteads this morning and left just Nate, Annabelle and I (Josie went to stay with Grandma for a few days by herself. We'll pick her up this Friday) to veg out in front of the tube and take some well deserved naps. Ahhhhhhhhhhh....indeed.