New York, Christmas, and New Years Pictures are Here!!!

I forgot to mention that on Dec. 15th James and I and some of our friends took a day trip to NYC! It was incredibly cold! But it was a lot of fun we went to some interesting places, namely the indian restaurant that is decked out with lights from all kinds of holidays. I believe in one of the pictures it even says "happy halloween!" it was a riot! So have a look at our trip and notice the fun faces of the people around us!



For Christmas we went to Michigan for 3 short days and then flew home to VA on Christmas day. Being in my home town for Christmas is always so wonderful. My family was all there and I was able to spend a lot of time with them. We were all able to go to the traditional Christmas Eve service at the church I grew up in. When my family goes on Christmas Eve we take up a whole pre row!!! We also had a new addition to our Christmas festivities. My cousin Cathy is engaged and her fiancee Matt was able to come celebrate with us. When we came home on Christmas Eve the dogs had a party of their own and tore up all the toilett paper. Shredding it around the house like confetti! Of course James and I got some wonderful presents from both sides of our families this year too! On Christmas day we flew back to VA to spend it with James' family. That was really fun too! James' dad and sister had a present wrapping contest. Teralyn was announced the winner by the judging panel of Grandma Babers. James' Grandmas had just had knee surgery on both knees and was walking around all over the place. Despite the pain of healing I think she is feeling so much better. Christmas night James and I crashed, exhausted in a good way!



New Years was a blast! My parents came from MI to drive us our presents so we wouldn't have to ship them, and to spend New Year's Eve with us. It was so much fun. James and I got a tent for Christmas so after my parents got here we assemebled the tent in our 1 bedroom apartment. Well... the tent was actually very large! It took up our whole living area but it is so COOL!!! Not to mention it was a fun experience setting it up. Now James and I can really go camping in our new tent! I was able to show my parents where I've been working this past year, and we went exploring to some monuments that they hadn't seen before. For New Year's Eve mom and I made pizzas from scratch! It was fun and easier than I had thought. The only problem was the fire alarm went off 5 times that night... go figure!!! James parents joined us for New Year's Eve and it was fun! We played games, chatted and ate pizza and fondu. We really enjoyed having our parents over and the games made us laugh even after everyone went to bed! It was a really fun holiday and I was so blessed that my parents came to visit, I LOVE having them near. I'm counting down the days until the cruise in April that my Dad is giving everyone. Yay! Well have fun looking at the pics!