A little late.

Well it's a couple days after Christmas and we had a wonderful day! As usual it we were up bright and early! Allyson had us up at 4:30 in the morning to open up presents! This year she has been full of questions about Santa and when we turned on the lights the first thing she noticed was that Santa used the same wrapping paper that I used to wrap the presents! Oops....next year Santa will have some special paper to wrap his presents in. As we opened presents all we heard was "that was what I wanted", " I love this", or "Awe Cool!". I think her two favorite presents was her real guitar, and her PS2. I got Steve Rock Band 2 for his X-Box and we have all truly enjoyed that gift, even me and I'm not a game type of person, but that game is a lot of fun! We have spent every night since Christmas playing that game for a couple of hours. Steve plays the guitar, I play the drums, and Allyson sings...we are quite the sight to see and hear! Steve got me a food processor that I have been wanting for quite some time, so I think my new years resolution is to try to be a better cook!

My mom got me a DVD camcorder, and I have had a blast using that thing! She gave it to me Christmas Eve so that I could tape Christmas morning which was a lot of fun! The only bad thing was that I forgot to take regular pictures Christmas morning, I'm kind of bummed about that, but oh well I have it on DVD now, so I can just watch it on the TV!

Well that's it for now, oh and I'm also going to try to blog more often this year too! Even if it's just a little something every couple of days.

Whew....

Boy oh boy did we have a busy weekend!!! Friday night I was
suppose to go to a cookie exchange, and I was so excited to go, but Allyson came home from school Friday with her stomach hurting and just kind of laid on me all day, so I ended up staying home from the cookie exchange. These are the cookies that I made for the exchange. They are very tasty, and I like that they aren't that sweet of a cookie. That night she was very sweet and we had this conversation:
Allyson: I'm sorry you had to miss your cookie party.
Me: It's alright.
Allyson: Thank you for staying home with me, it makes me feel better.
That was enough reason for me to stay home right there.

Saturday we had my Mom's side of the family over for a Christmas party, so I started the day by cleaning the house and getting ready for that. We had a good time and everyone enjoyed themselves.

Sunday I got to take Allyson to go see The Nutcracker and she really enjoyed herself!! It was so pretty. It had been years since I have seen it, and I think I liked it more as an adult that I did as a child. It was so nice to walk around the auditorium and see all the little girls dressed in their Christmas dresses.

This coming weekend is booking up pretty fast too! Friday night is my Grandmother's birthday party, Saturday night we are having Steve's parents over for dinner and doing Christmas with them, and then on Sunday night we are going to a friends house for dinner! I love all the get together's over the holidays!