So, here I am, posting about Christmas and New Years a month or so later than I should be. Sorry.
Our Christmas was good. It was different than any other since we were missing Matt's parents. We had Christmas Eve dinner at my parents and everyone got their traditional Christmas Eve pajamas from Grandma and Grandpa Gunn:
I played Santa for the Hale boys and we invited everyone over for Christmas morning at the Hale home. It was a lot of fun. Here are a couple of pictures representing the chaos and the cheer of the morning:
The presents that went over the best for the boys were a paragliding gift certificate for Spencer and a XBox 360 game for Justin. Here is Spencer opening his gift certificate. I didn't want to tip him off so I specially wrapped it in a box of baby diapers! It was pretty funny to watch him open it:
Then there was the biggest and most secretive gift for the one special man in my life. I have had some difficult gift giving experiences with Matt on our past Christmases - Three years ago I got him a shaver that I was really proud of and he told me it wasn't that great of a gift because he didn't really need a shaver and last Christmas I was all excited to give him an Ipod Nano and he was like, "I totally knew that this is what you were giving me." - ANYWAY, I really wanted to do good this year so I went to extreme lengths to keep his AWESOME gift a secret and judging by his face when he opened his gift, I think I did a pretty good job. See for yourself: (working on the pictures).Yep, that's right. I got him a Playstation 3. He's so spoiled.
It really was fantastic for me to get to finally surprise him! In my next post I will show you how we put the PS3 to good use, but for now I must conclude. Until next time....
Sarah
