Merry Christmas!

Back from a lovely long holiday weekend.. it went a little something like this:

wednesday- i got out of work around noon and headed to run a couple errands. i stopped at the grocery store and then michaels for some supplies for the christmas balls that i made, hopefully i can make a tutorial on those, i need to remember to take a picture of one of them! when i returned home, i had some lunch and then started on the gifts. i made twelve decorative balls and afterward Alex and I headed out to Willow Street diner for dinner with his parents, grandpa and the Denlinger-Moses clan. I had a decent burger and a salad with wayy to much dressing.

thursday- alex headed off to work and i woke up at 8 am to receive the directv guy to install our HD dish. While the directv guy was working outside i cleaned the house and started a cheesecake, alex brought me eggs around noon when he came home so i could then finish the cheesecake! around 1:30 i left to meet my sisters at the york galleria for our annual christmas photo with santa. of course, when i got there at 2, santa was on break until 3! so we waited an hour, were 4th in line, took a nice photo and then headed out. when i got home, i had a nice surprise.. the cheesecake didn't crack! this was a first for me, so yessss! we started our dinner prep, hung out for a little while and then did our presents to each other. He got me an ice cream maker! and Baking Illustrated! and some other stuff.. so exciting! And i got him some thermals, a knife magnet and some other stuff. We then had our meal, strip steak/brussel sprouts/sweet potato which was yummy as always. We hung out some more and then headed up to my parents house. They were at a holiday party so we played some Wii while waiting for them. i couldn't wait to go to bed so that i could wake up to christmas morning!

friday- merry christmas! everyone woke up and got ready and when my grandparents got there we did gifts by the tree. i don't know why this happens every year but my sisters just can't pay attention to when it's their turn to open gifts.. i was the gift coordinator. I got lots of nice stuff from victoria's secret and some other stuff as well, Alex got an awesome coat from AE (who picked that out? ;) ) and a really nice fossil watch, and some other stuff. Then i opened my birthday gift from my parents.. a Wii!! so exciting! then we played my parents wii while waiting for my sisters to get ready, it's addicting!
- we headed to my grama's house for our yummy fresh ham lunch. we ate (omg yum) and then did gifts. then i brought in my new wii and we played for the rest of the afternoon.
- around 5 pm we headed to my other grandparents house, helped get all the food out and ready and when everyone arrived we did gifts in sets. i got a really nice candle, some chocolates, monies, and some wii stuff! then my grama let me open my birthday gift which was some more wii stuff! i now have mariokart and mario brothers, a charging station for the 2 controllers, and the wheels for mariokart. i think that's all alex and i really need, which is nice.
- around 8:30 we left to head back to Lancaster. We stopped at Alex's grandpa's house where his family was and hung out until around 11 pm. Then we needed to go home and feed those kitties!

saturday- woke up and got ready, then headed over to alex's grandparents house where we hung out all day chatting and playing games. we had a really nice roast beef dinner and got some awesome gifts. i got a really nice tray from pier one and alex and i got some chopsticks and a spice set, oh and i got a snuggie and a bra purse! lol. fun times! alex's cousins are all so entertaining! around 8 pm we headed home, hung out for a little.. watched tv, played some mario brothers and then went to bed!

sunday- sleeping in is awesome. we did have some errands to run so we woke up around 10 am and headed to best buy to exchange something for a new mouse and new phones. then we went to the grocery store and marshalls. the line at marshalls was so long though, we decided not to buy what we had in our hands.. too long of a wait. we headed home and cleaned up some more, then started the meal. we made leek and potato soup, alex attempted novelli's bread recipe and before we knew it, alex's family had arrived. we hung out, opened some gifts and then ate dinner. i also tried out my new ice cream machine but we made sorbet and it didn't get frozen enough to serve. I need to find some sturdy quart containers to reuse for ice cream and sorbets. i did some online shopping, got 4 pairs of shoes from aldo, huge sale right now, and then some books and such from amazon. I need to get a new years eve outfit, so i'll probably hit the mall this week for forever21.. so cheap!

it was an awesome holiday, our first married one and we really enjoyed spending time with our families. now onto my birthday wednesday and then new years eve on thursday!!! can't wait!