It's a Wonderful Life....Pt 2

On Christmas Day we slept in, ate a delicious breakfast, took a sneak peek at what Santa brought, and then got ready for Church.  While the rest of us finished our breakfast Mandy couldn't help herself and HAD to make sure Santa Clause brought her an Elmo doll.  Santa knows her pretty well.  I think he's brought her a new Elmo doll every year for the past 10 years.  It's Christmas tradition!  And she loves Elmo.  Ahhh...I love that girl.  She is too funny.  I wish everyone could meet her in person.  

The day after Christmas I got another run in... a quick and snappy 4.5 miles with the hubby.  It was cold and we had plans for the day so we hurried.  Plus, we were up WAY too late on Christmas playing crazy games and eating too much food so we slept in pretty late.

Kinda cool, eh?

SAME exact sign I saw two days earlier that said "No Swimming".  I love it!

Later in the day we went bowling, watched football, played games, sat in the hot tub and watched some movies.  Have you ever played Balderdash?  It's a pretty fun game, especially when playing with Al Pal- Justin's other sister.  She came up with the most hilarious definitions.  We also played Wacky Sixes...which is great fun. 

Tuesday we got out AGAIN and went for a run together.  It had finally snowed so we enjoyed our nice 5 miler in the snow.  It was pretty and we were some of the first tracks in the snow.  It felt good!    We got a nice hard run in so we could enjoy some scones, apple cider & skeet shooting later in the day.  Me like to shoot guns. (More pictures to come soon!  Oh goodie goodie!)

We had to prove that it actually snowed!

Haha...I beat you, boy!

We did it!

While on my relaxing Christmas break I was able to sit down and enjoy some quiet reading time.  I started The Help and I read the first 300 pages in 2 days of reading.  It's a great book and I can't wait to see the movie Justin got me for Christmas!    Did I also mention that I got a sweet gift card from my sweetie for a day at the spa???  I'm pumped!!  Plus I got a Christmas piano book with beautiful artwork, some pajamas, Turbo Kick music, new books, movies, that beautiful black/gray striped sweater I'm wearing in my pictures in the previous post,  perfume, and some other great gifts.  He sure knows how to treat his lady!  It was a fun Christmas!

Now...I'm back to the grind.  Our Christmas present from my in-laws????? A trip to San Diego for the fam!  We're all going to San Diego to create some bomb-diggity memories.  So, what does that mean for me???   I've got 2 weeks to get my butt into major gear!