Catching Up!

Time to catch up the blog!  It's been a long and busy week!  Super busy week!  Who's week hasn't been busy this close to Christmas?  I was up extra late two nights in a row to do Christmas baking.  I took 9 packages to the post office yesterday and 3 today.  Whew!  You should have seen me trying to haul in all those boxes yesterday.  I had to make 2 trips to the car to load them up then to unload them once I got to the post office.  I was a sight, as small as I am carrying boxes stacked above my head.  Lol!

I can't believe Christmas is on Wednesday.  I feel as though I blinked and it was nearly here. We went out tonight to try to finish up our shopping.  We're still going to have to go out tomorrow.  Hopefully, we'll finish up by the end of tomorrow.  However, I'll likely have to go get stocking stuffers on Monday.  It's definitely not as easy shopping for one another now that we are married.  I know it's been harder for Brad to find time to shop for me without me being with him.  Both of us are struggling with hiding gifts from one another! I decided one day this week the best idea would be to go shopping super quick before he gets home.  My full plan was to be speedy enough to get things wrapped too before he arrived home.  I almost made it!  He came home while I was still wrapping his gifts. I was nearly done. I was in the spare room wrapping so it was easy to shut the door to keep him and his baby blues out! 

We're hosting Christmas Eve, which I'm super excited about.  I love to have everybody over for Christmas Eve.  Or actually any occasion but especially Christmas Eve. Before I started this blog I was thumbing through a recipe book reading ingredients for the dishes I'm making.  I'm trying to figure out when in the next few days I should go grocery shopping for the Christmas Eve meal. Which day will be the least busy? Hmm, that is the BIG question. 

Before ending this post....I must mention we had an awesome celebration for our 1 year anniversary.  I couldn't have asked for more!  We saved watching our wedding video for our anniversary.  There we were on our anniversary night watching our wedding for the first time.  The video was amazing!  Brad's cousin did such a good job.  The amount of content was above what I could have imagined. And yes, we did thaw out some of the wedding cake to eat it! Since the 1 year anniversary is the "paper" anniversary I got Brad tickets to the Dallas Stars and a magazine subscription.  Tickets are made of paper and so is a magazine! Last night we went to the Dallas Stars hockey game.  We had a great time.  Nice seats!  They won too!  We sat in the lower level which was a bit colder than we experienced the previous time we went to the Stars. I didn't mind though especially since we were right at center ice a little ways above the players tunnel.  All in all I don't think we could have had a better anniversary weekend!