Christmas Update

Well I survived my very first Christmas. I have to give alot of credit to my both of my grandmothers and my mom and mother-in-law who all made it look very easy to do!!! It is alot of stress planning, shopping, cleaning and cooking.

We went to dinner and to church with our friends Jamie and Karim and their kids and had a great visit with them. After church I went home and finished the cleaning and prepared the stuffing and got some of the appies made for the next day. Everyone arrived for breakfast at 9:00am and then we opened presents. We told everyone that we did not need or want anything as we could not afford to buy gifts this year but not one person listened. We received money (as we have a couple of vacations for next year), gift certificates, CD's, some stuff for the house, some really nice coffee mugs and an electric knife. There were 9 people over for dinner on Christmas day and then my grandmother (dad's mom) stayed over night.

On boxing day we hit the stores and I bought myself a new jacket with some of my money. Paul attempted to go into Best Buy but the line up was out the door. We then had to go over to my Aunt's in North Vancouver for an open house.

I spent a couple of days over on Vancouver Island with my dad and Heather and we had a great time. They were really bad and in addition to taking us to Mexico in May for our Christmas gift they also got us a BBQ which we were in need of. Now Paul has to learn how to cook. We had a very quiet New Years and spent it with our friends G & M and Breanne.

I hope that everyone's Christmas and New Years was good and that everyone is well!