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