"Our Christmas"

Starting the first holiday season we were dating (2006), Jason & I have celebrated "Our Christmas." It started as the weekend day that we exchanged gifts & made a special dinner to celebrate the holiday, before we would each go to our own families for the holiday. It was an excellent tradition to start, and it is one we still continue, even though we spend the actual holiday together now (we spend half of it with my family & half with his...making the exciting trek between Indy & Evansville early on Christmas morning). This past weekend we celebrated "Our Christmas."

First of all--Jason got his main Christmas present from me early...I took him to see "Star Wars in Concert" at Conseco Fieldhouse on 12/12. "Star Wars in Concert" is a live-orchestra playing of a lot of the music from Star Wars, with scenes from the movie flashing in the background.  The music was great--it was great people watching--and we got to see lots of neat props from the movies. 

Apparently the force is not strong with this one...

Ewoks! I want an ewok!...these were behind glass though

A very shiney C3P0...I still can't believe the actor fit inside of this costume...so skinny

This year, "Our Christmas" started with our gift exchange...this would best be demonstrated in photos....

We woke up to a "White Christmas" with a new 1.5 inches of snow...

Our beautiful tree...loaded with presents...

Bentley kept trying to stick his nose into all of the presents as they were being unwrapped...

Jason holding up his Vader ornament--representing his main Christmas present of the concert

The dogs finally realized they weren't getting presents...so started playing with one of their old toys...

So is it cheating that I bought Jason's "stocking stuffers" from our wedding registry? He needed this chisel so he can break into some geodes he found hiking/kayaking awhile back...Here he is breaking into Bentley...

Check out that bedhead...gotta love it...but also gotta love chocolate oranges :-P

I got a grown-up jewelry box for Christmas :-) It's HUGE...and I love it :-)  I've wanted a grown-up jewelry box for a long time--maybe now I'll stop leaving my necklaces/earrings in every room...eh...probably not... :-P

Isn't it beautiful? He did a great job picking it out. 

After our gift exchange we made brunch--and then went to go see Avatar in 3D. We both really enjoyed the movie. Unfortunately, we didn't appropriately plan for how long the movie was going to be...so we ended up having to go get dinner out Saturday night. We made our "Our Christmas" dinner on Sunday night instead. So really, we got to celebrate all weekend long :-). This year I made a fairly simple dinner of a baked ham, country style green beans, cornbread, & individual potatoes au gratin. It all ended up being quite yummy, if I can just brag a little :-P. Jason made a delicious blackberry cobbler for dessert.

Oh...and I guess this is pretty obvious in the photos above...but I now have glasses. I'm planning on wearing contacts about 75% of the time and my glasses the rest of the time...but honestly, enjoy rocking the glasses on occasion. What do you think? :-P... too scary?  Gotta love the eyesight getting bad as I'm getting "old"...

Scary?...yes. :-P

Happy Holidays everyone!!!  I wish everyone safe travels!  ~Amy