A Project of Happiness: Holidays 2012 : A Life Update

Christmas this year was nice. I spent Christmas eve during the day accompanying my dad on some last minute shopping (He waits till Christmas Eve every year) and then I spent the night with Chad and his family at his grandparents. Chad and I exchanged gifts Christmas Eve like we've done every year. He got me boot socks that I've been wanting and searching for, a curling wand and seasons 7,8 and 9 of One Tree Hill to complete my collection. I gave him his Timberland boots he's been wanting, a hat and an Eagles sweatshirt that he actually got back in November when we went to an Eagles game. It was a good Christmas for us both.

L. My boots and Boot socks I got for Christmas R. Our new Superman PJ pants. (Chad and I got the same ones from his Mom)

We came home and watched True Blood (Quite possibly my favorite show ever and Chad's now addicted) and went to bed fairly early. Got up on Christmas day and went over to Chad's Grandparents where most of his family was gathering. Exchanged gifts with his brother and brothers girlfriend and ate some lunch/early dinner. After that we said our goodbyes and headed over to my dad's / my dad's girlfriend's. We ate dinner and exchanged some more gifts.

L. My Brother Mikey, My Niece Hayden and Chad. R. My Dad, His Girlfriend, Robin and Hayden

Myself and Hayden opening presents and playing with her new toy.

L. Hayden R. My dad and Hayden

After spending some time and having dinner, dessert and coffee with my Dad and that whole side of the family chad and I said our goodbyes again and started our 4 hour journey to Maryland to spend a couple days with my mom, my little brothers and my baby sister.

The backseat of my car!

We didn't get to Maryland till almost midnight so everyone was pretty much sleeping. Knowing the kids would be waking us as soon as they got up to show us all the things Santa brought them we headed to bed. Sure enough just before 9am Mackenzie was sitting on top of me with pretty much half her new toys showing me everything while my eyes were just barely open. We lounged around playing games and exploring their new toys for awhile. Had some breakfast and eventually started showering and getting dressed for the day.

T. Mackenzie playing on chads phone. B. Chad, AJ and Bryan playing video games.

She got those ear muffs for christmas and would not take them off for anything. As you can see, we painted her nails!

Being silly and wasting time waiting for my mom and older sister to get there!

Mackenzie and I decided while we were bored to put as many flower clips in Chad's hair as we could. I used to work at Claire's so Mackenzie has a crapload of hair accessories. (50% off discount how could I not?)

Once my mom finally got home from work and my oldest sister got there with her son we exchanged more gifts and had some lunch. After all the craziness was over the adults sat down and decided if we were gonna go do something for the night or hang out at the house. We all decided to go get some energy out where the adults could enjoy too. So we went to Dave and Busters had some drinks and played some arcade games. Really I just walked around with Chad and Mackenzie and helped them both play. Chad was nice enough to put all his tickets with Mackenzie. When she realized how many tickets they had all together she was ecstatic.

One of the machines didn't print tickets when Mackenzie won so we got a guy to come check it out and it was out of tickets. Once he put tickets in it, it wouldn't stop printing! I think other people played on it too but didn't ask anyone to check it so it had been backed up for it a bit!

The rest of our time there was spent just hanging out and a trip to the mall so the kids could run off some steam in this bounce house place that Maryland has so conveniently placed in one of their malls. Chad and I left on Friday back to PA being I had to work at 3pm that day. New years was extremely low key for us. To be honest, If you haven't figured it out already, I'm really not a huge party type person. So I was perfectly content with laying in bed with my handsome man. I don't really feel like New Years is anything amazing. I believe in setting goals for yourself, but not the "I'm a failure if I don't complete this goals" type goals and that's about it. So I leave you with some pictures from the holiday season. I hope all your holidays were wonderful.