Christmas and Beyond

Here are the pictures from our Christmas :) It was very relaxed and small - which didn't bother us at all!

On Christmas Eve, Dad took me to see The Nutcracker performed by Ballet West at the Capitol Theater. He took me when I was 5 back in 1986 and it's now 26 years later and we got to go again. I LOVED it! We have to do it more often!

Here I am in the lobby of the theater.

 

Me and Dad trying to take a self-portrait - didn't turn out too well :P

 The ceiling in the theater was AMAZING and had an awesome chandelier!

Our view of the stage before the curtain rose.

Christmas Day before we started opening presents. 

Chris and Tara came over in the morning to make a large breakfast for us and we spent the morning having Christmas with Dad.
Here is Chris with the dogs piled on the couch with him.

A ham sandwich!

For one of Dad's presents I got him an Airborne poster to hang in his room.
Here he is opening it up...

 ...and his smile after seeing it. He was really excited to have it!

 Chris and Tara got him a gift card for the iPad Mini he won from work!

Ramin got Chris a pre-order of the new Sim City computer game. Because it's not actually out yet, Ramin wrapped an "air" box of the game :P  Chris was confused at first and couldn't figure out what it was...

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...this was Ramin's reaction when Chris couldn't figure it out!

Dad got Ramin a gift card to Lowe's and Ramin loved it!

Dad got Tara and me some similar items. Some perfume and makeup :)

 This was another one of Dad's gifts from me and Ramin. Keeping with the Airborne theme he got a fleece jacket with the logo embroidered on it

 I got Ramin a remote control Audi A6. He had joked earlier in the month that he wanted an A6 for Christmas after seeing a commercial for it on TV. This was my compromise :P

Here is a video of Belle chasing around the car. It's OK...it wasn't very expensive and I knew she'd have fun chasing it :)

I got Tara some good hair products now that she's gone darker. She seemed to like them :)

Chris and Tara got us some new dishes. I LOVE THEM! I think I may need to go buy another set of them because I love them so much and I want to throw away all of our other plastic crap!

I got Chris some Ninja Turtle glasses. He seemed to like them :)

Dad had to go to work that afternoon and so Chris and Tara went to spend some time with her family and then later that evening they came back over to our house and so did Mom and Bob.

Tara bought Dingo and Belle some candy cane treats....here's Dingo with his.

Ramin opened some more presents from me. This was a new Puma shirt.

My mom got Tara some card-making supplies.

We wrapped a few of our gifts in funny boxes...this was one of them - cat weights! 

I got Chris a National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation t-shirt. We also happened to be watching that movie on the TV at the same time so I had him stand next to the TV holding up his shirt :P

Tara had some actual good dog reindeer antlers and so we put them on Belle and made her sit cute for a treat....she is soooo sweet when she does this.

And that was our Christmas - we also had my mom's famous lasagna for dinner and then went to bed. It was a great day.  Here are some other random photos from the past 2 weeks.

I snapped this cute picture of Liesel and baby Lizzie on New Years Eve Jenn and Matt the other week. SO CUTE!

That same night we came home to find a few candy wrappers on the floor...I looked in our bedroom and sure enough my stocking (which was still filled completely with candy) had been torn open and all the candy and most of the wrappers had been consumed. The only culprit was Belle as Dingo was in his crate. I wasn't that upset actually....I get to make a new one now and I didn't have all of that candy distracting me from starting my new P90X workout plan.

It's been DAMN COLD in Salt Lake City the past week...it never gets above freezing and it's usually in the single digits...this was the temp when I went to work one of the mornings this week.

And here is Belle again...invading the bed. I had literally just mad the bed all nice not 10 minutes before I found her like this. She somehow takes the corner of the comforter and moves it down so she can lay in the bed. What a little punk...but she's a cute little punk!!

Anyway! Happy New Year 2013!! I'm sure there will be more pictures over this next month...but I won't be doing too many extracurriculars as I'm spending a lot of my time working out. I work out for an hour+ every day, except for Sundays....which is why I have time to write this blog post :)