A Merry Little Christmas...

Can you believe it, Christmas has come and gone. Maybe it flew by to fast for me since I had to work on Christmas Eve. I now know what is one of the most depressing things ever...driving to work and passing other families going to Church or to spend time with their family and friends. Well with it all said and done, I made it. I survived working Christmas Eve and I actually pretended to be really happy to be a work to see if I could brighten at least one patients day!

So lets back up...

Christmas Eve: I had to work the night before so I came home bright and early to wish my love a happy Christmas Eve. I only got three hours of sleep before I woke up. I guess I was filled with anticipation and excitement?! I knew it would only be a few hours before Zach would be so shocked about his Christmas gift....a 52 inch flat screen. It was so funny because we received a package from Crutchfield that Zach saw. He was dead set that he was getting a Tom Tom for Christmas. If the boy can't find himself around Oxford yet-we are in big trouble! So the delivery boy pulls up in a unmarked white van and of course Zach gets paranoid because he is clueless. I open the door and then demand Zach to help the little guy bring in the box. This is when he figured out what was going on. He was so excited and couldn't believe I had actually pulled this off. I was very thrilled for him....but whoa what was I thinking. He is permanently glued to the TV. Then off to work I go.

Christmas Day: Zach's family tradition is a Christmas Breakfast. It was very tasty and really fun, even with 3 hours of sleep in a 30 hour period. We had some great food and good company but I must admit the best part of the morning was this "Crazy Santa" game. This was the first year of a new tradition. Zach's parents hid 2 fifty dollar bills in the living room and we all had to search for them. Whoever found them got to keep them. It was very frustrating as well as entertaining. . .for the parents at least. All 6 of us wandered around like a bunch of goofballs for a good 15 minutes. I found myself searching the best places, the tree, the deer heads, pictures...everywhere. After staring at this one particular deer head for 3 minutes at least I gave up on it. Shortly after, Margaret, my sister-in-law walked right up to it and yelled "I FOUND IT". I was pretty upset about this because you do know I am very competitive. So on to searching we go....long story short. I found the 2nd one....in the exposed ceiling beam knot hole. Did you follow that? Meaning in a really random place that no one would ever look- I still don't know what made me look there. I am glad I did!

To finish out Christmas Day, Zach and I had the family over for dinner. It was suppose to be my Grandparents and Mom and his family. My Grandparents got sick so Mom came to Celebrate with us. We had a great time cooking, cleaning and pretty much doing the normal run around to get things ready! (UGH this is getting long). The food was decent but the company was better! ;) Mom gave Zach some "runny (maybe suppose to be running, this is just what I have always called it) money" and he is super thrilled about spending it on something great. I got my juicer we already discussed, Mama Mia, two shirts and a ped egg...I am really excited about that!

I think I will get to my pedegging I had planned! Merry Christmas to you and your families!