Merry Christmas!

What a wonderful Holiday weekend we've just had {and it's not over yet! We still have one more family gathering, a girls night, and a visit with an old friend}. How incredibly blessed am I? Well I'll tell ya. I am such a blessed woman!

What better way to start the festivities than with some good food in the company of friends and family, followed by winning a $25 gift card to Target, at the Brasher's Work Christmas Party on Friday {not to mention the half a day of work}.

Of course nothing beats some serious last minute shopping on Christmas Eve! Luckily the places we went weren't crowded and we knew exactly what we wanted {thank you gift cards!}. Following our Shopping, Devin and I headed out to Grandma Wilhelm's for the Christmas Eve Festivities; dinner, singing, Santa, presents, and lots of family. It was a bitter sweet Christmas Eve, as it was the first without Grandpa Wilhelm. Although he wasn't physically there, his spirit filled our hearts as we gathered together.

Christmas morning came too quickly! After sleeping in for the past 3 days, sadly, it was hard to wake up at 730. The only thing that got me to get out of my bed was the fact that I got to rock my leopard footie pajamas {it's not Christmas unless footie pajamas are involved} and that Santa had brought me a big box {it wasn't at all what I thought it was}. Too make it short, our Christmas went like so:

730: We opened our presents from each other and presents with Devin, Angie, and Adam.
830: Breakfast, read a Christmas book, and opened presents at my parents.
12: Opened presents, had lunch, took a cat-nap, and played games at Grandma Ann's.
330: Headed home for the night, cleaned-up/organized/played/ate some Christmas goodies.

Santa was very good to us this year {good thing he is soo good with his Ebay hobby}.

Santa brought Devin a poster/picture/drawing of The Good Fella's, some Very Sexy For Him body spray, a Steelers Helmet signed by San Antonio Holmes, a watch, {family} gift cards, basketball shorts, a tie, church socks, a movie, cash, and PLENTY of snacks in his stocking.

Santa brought me a laptop, which I was convinced for weeks it was a sewing machine, {this is my first post on MY laptop}, Toms, Cinderella {FINALLY}, {from family} gift cards, pj's, a scarf, tights, a movie, cash, Betty Boop cups, and PLENTY of snacks in my stocking.

Needless to say, Devin and I were very blessed this Christmas, not only with presents, but mostly with the company of our amazing families.

I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas! Here are a few of the minimal pictures I took {I was horrible with the camera this year (sad face)}.

Memom & Papa bought all the big kids bibi guns{for vacation in July}