Merry Christmas!

Shawn and I had a great Christmas together. Last year we'd only been dating for about six months so our relationship was still fairly new. He went home to Kentucky to be with his family, and I went to Dallas to be with the Timiney's. It was really special to be together this year even though we missed our families.

For Christmas I gave him the following:
* Indianapolis Colts t-shirt
*Kentucky Wildcats t-shirt
*49'ers mug
*A Yamato Macross 1/60 VF-1S Super Valkyrie Roy-part of the Robotech something or another thing he loved from his childhood. :) (link to picture)
*A Neck Massager pillow-actually from Bailey because he chewed up his other one
*Some ancient Roman/Greek coins

Bailey got a bazillion new squeaky toys, a bunch of doggy treats, and a cute Christmasy doggy sweater. He's usually pretty good about wearing clothes but this fit a little small so we took it off after we snuck in a few pictures:




For Christmas he gave me the following:
*Anne of Green Gables/Anne of Avonlea/The Continuing Story on DVD
*A CHI Turbo flat iron
*A totally amazingly cute and cool picnic basket! I'm soooo excited to use it :)
*A purple snuggy
*A drawing of a penguin on my Christmas Card. Apparently it's "horrible and must be destroyed", but I love it to death and I will NOT destroy it. So there!
*The beginning of my "new car fund"

Stephanie and Brad gave me a really pretty necklace, Shawns family gave me a Sony Cyber-Shot camera and a few odds and ends, and my family gave me a gift certificate to Day Murray Music. I think I'm going to wait until my trip to Utah to use the gift certificate so I can get more bang for my buck by avoiding shipping charges. I'll be there in less than three weeks, wow!

For dinner, Shawn didn't want me to slave away like I did at Thanksgiving. I don't consider it slaving away but he did :) I had made up some Spicy Pork Bulgogi a few weeks ago, and I made some Kimchi Pancakes. Tasty, Simple and VERY filling. Here are a few pictures of the meal courtesy of my fancy new camera :)

Two More Sleeps!

G'night!

What did the concert say to the toothbrush?

I don't know the punchline to that joke, but I'm pretty sure I'll feel like I got punched in the face come tomorrow morning. My friend Leigh and I are going to the Bobby Bones Show Christmas Concert tonight. Performing are THE FRAY, Owl City, Jason Derulo & Iyaz. We both love The Fray and this will be a fun opportunity to go see them. The last time I was out at a concert on a weekday THIS happened, and I got home and was in bed around 2 a.m. That was hellish the next day when I had to wake up for work. The morning after the concert I have to be to the dentist by 7:45 a.m. Should I just stay up and not sleep at all? Take a 2 hour power nap? At least it's my half day so I can go home and crash after 3 1/2 hours. :)

Happiness and Joy :)

My friend Stephanie sent me an email to see if I'd write a letter of memories about Ashlyn, her daughter. She's 7 (I think) and such a sweetheart. Nothing compares to the love of a child, especially when you're having a hard day.

Pssst

....I'm going to make my blog private. When I get time I'll start going through and adding the email addresses I know about, but I'm sure I'll end up missing some of you. I'd simply LOVE it if you'd reply with your email address :)

Thanks
~Amy

What a great idea!!

Shawns dad said he wanted a "thoughtful, non-expensive gift that reminded him of the true spirit of Christmas" So we decided to buy him something he's been wanting for a while but also send him a framed picture of Shawn, Bailey and myself. Here are a few of the attempts :p

If I'd posted every picture that ended up with my eyes closed/mostly closed, there wouldn't be enough room for them all

Bailey: "You are the center of my world"

My attempt to hold the camera. Shawn's doing his murder the dog pose because he had a feeling the picture would be a failure :p

Shawns idea: I'll take the picture AND hold the dog in place so he doesn't get super excited that you're touching him.

Oh no! He's got him in a choke hold! Quick say cheese!

Shawn looks like he's playing darts with Bailey's head. Oh well-Merry Christmas :)

Tree in Progress

Shawn and I went shopping yesterday afternoon for a few presents and a Christmas Tree. We went to Garden Ridge first, which is usually known for it's good selection and prices. We were both sooo thirsty so Shawn picked up a few bottles of Soda for us to drink while we were shopping. After looking around for 10-15 minutes and not really finding anything we were in love with, we went to go check out. One problem--the line was 98 miles long. Maybe that's an exaggeration, but it sure didn't feel like it. People were abandoning their carts left and right and walking out, but guess who had already "purchased" something? Yup-that'd be us. Because we're both such honest, law-abiding citizens we stood in line for 25 minutes to purchase a Sprite, a Diet Coke, and a bag of bows.

Next we headed to Target. We found a tree we really loved but they were all sold out. We picked up a few random presents and headed off to try out Sears. We found a "meh" tree there (4.5 ft pre-lit), but they only had like one aisle of decorations so we opted to go to Hobby Lobby. For you Utahns-Hobby Lobby is like Michaels/Roberts on CRACK! Surely we'd be able to find something there right? I decided to buy a cute mini-desk tree for my office, a gift for Shawns dad, and a star to TRY on the top of the tree. We couldn't find any stars that a) matched the decor and b) didn't dwarf our 4.5ft tree.

Here are the (humble) results of our tree. The bulbs we bought didn't come with any hooks and unfortunately we didn't think about that. So right now it just has the star ornament that DIDN'T work on top and an ornament from my childhood. It's definitely a work in progress. Merry Christmas Everyone!!