Christmas Day!

"Finally! I got a Barbie!!"

(and for anyone who knows Lili, KNOWS that this is just one of about a hundred. But she didn't have this one)

Brett went to the school's Santa Shop and spent his OWN money to get his sister the perfect gift.

Brett got an xBox from Meemaw and Peepaw!!! He didn't think he was going to get one. We managed to keep it from him until he thought all the gifts were open.

He was so excited after he opened it, he told me he went into the bathroom and cried!

Poor little guy.

Look! Look! Look!

Lili got a guitar too!!.......gotta love the grandparents.

now where are those earplugs...

Lili, the happy elf

What a Christmas!!

I didn't get my new house, bummer, but everything else was fantastic.

I got a TON of giftcards, which we went out to spend today.

We had a 'plan'. Yeah, I know......

We were going to get up early and head up to our usual shopping area. Jeff happened to have the local news on as we were getting ready and they reported that the US highway we usually take to get there was CLOSED. wha??? I guess we had some freezing rain overnight and even the plows weren't out yet because the roads were so icy. Great.

But, I was undaunted.

"Let's just head SOUTH", I said.

So that's what we did. We went to another favorite area of ours in the opposite direction.

The one good thing about where we live is that's it's centrally located.

But, I don't think we drove over 35-40 most of the way, it was still pretty icy, even most of the way south.

It did warm up though, so for the drive home it was really, really foggy.

mmmm, mmmm, just can't get enough winter.