Christmas went by almost as quickly as it came. For some reason this December we just couldn't get it together fast enough. While we love the holiday season between sicknesses, work, and school (for Stephen) we didn't get our house decorated until about a week before christmas and even then it was to our normal extent. Oh well, next year we will make up for it. Christmas itself however was busy as normal. We traveled to Wilmington on Tuesday night arriving around 2am. We then spent Christmas Eve at my grandmother Seabock's house as we normally do. Below is a picture of her christmas tree and all of the gifts! It never ceases to surprise me how many there are there. We stayed the night at my mom's house and then woke up christmas morning and did gifts with her.


The day was the spent at Stephen's grandmother's house for lots of gift opening with cousins, and lunch. The pictures below are of Stephen, his grandmother, and his youngest brother Mark. Also a picture of this Christmas' favorite gift, puffy vests!!




After that we went to my grandmother's again for dinner. Whoa! Talk about to much eating. We then finished out the day at my grandma Phelps's house for gifts and some yummy snacks. Yes we literally ate all day. Unfortunately this Christmas was shorter than normal as we had to come back home early Friday morning to be back at work! Bleh!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas holiday! We will be leaving on Wednesday morning to celebrate New Year's in Hot Spings, VA with Stephen's immediate family and we cannot wait!! Wishing you many great things in the coming year!

Christmas is getting so close..

Well it has been quite an interesting past two weeks. Stephen has been really sick, and trying to finish up the semester. Then I got sick and have been moving quite slowly around the house. Needless to say our normal Christmas decorating extravaganza did not happen as normal on the first weekend of December. We did buy our tree as we have the past 6 years, but it hasn't even been decorated this week. I am hoping that we will get everything up and decorated this week!

These are pictures from Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving day was busy as always, but so much fun to be able to see our whole family and spend time together, and eat great food! It may seem like we only went to Stephen's family but my family is just harder to get pictures of.. Hehe!




The day after Thanksgiving was full of shopping. Stephen went out with me at 5am! and then I took him home around 8am, and met up with my aunt and cousin (long time shopping tradition) and my mom (the first time ever she has come out of the day after). We shopped ALL day long until about 4pm when we were ready to crash! However I can say I got alot of my shopping done! Yay!!