On Christmas Day, Stephan baked up some Rhodes cinnamon rolls for my birthday breakfast. We opened the few presents we had for each other. We picked out our own Christmas presents. Yes, we are boring. I got Stephan headphones that were normally $30 for $10 with Amazon gift cards that I got from using Swagbucks. I also got him a new polo shirt. Stephan got me Josh Groban's newest album, a beret, and a couple of tops (he wrapped the beret and shirts together).
Since we spent last Christmas with my family, we spent it with Stephan's this year. Stephan got to talk to his brother Brent (who is coming home from his mission at the end of March) and then we opened more presents. Lots of good presents. One of my favorites was a wheat grinder. After presents was dinner. Since there were so many people there that day, my mother-in-law forewent the traditional turkey dinner for a soup bar of sorts. Then we had a birthday for me, with the cherry pie I made. My mother-in-law isn't used to someone in the family having a Christmas birthday, so she didn't have a cake. She felt bad, but I wasn't upset because I wasn't expecting her to have a cake. Then I got my birthday present: essential oils. I am having fun learning how to use them :)
The rest of the day, people played games and such. We ate dessert. And I spent most of the time holding my adorable new nephew Kelton :)
Then Stephan and I came home, and he basically pampered me the rest of the night. His birthday present to me will always be Christmas evening to do whatever I wish, and my wish was to be pampered.
Now to Houston...
My parents held off on celebrating Christmas until the 28th because Stephan and I were flying in on the 27th and my brother Craig had to work on Christmas day. We got good presents there too--I got a sewing machine! I was originally going to get my mom's old one, but she found out that it was almost on its last leg, so she got me a new one instead. It has to be shipped, but I'm so excited about it! I've been wanting to get serious about sewing for a while now. And as tradition dictates, we celebrated my birthday later.
Yes folks, I got THREE birthdays. So, why am I gypped again?
We spent a total of a week in Houston. I got my haircut by my hairdresser Scott (please don't let it be a year before I see him again), and it looks great. I like my hair shorter--easier to manage and the curls bounce more. We saw the new Narnia movie--I liked it, but I know people who were disappointed. And we ate Mexican and Indian food (Stephan's first time eating Indian). All in all, a good trip. I don't want it to be another year before we visit my family again, though.
Now we're back in Utah and to our routine. Stephan has started a new semester of school. We recently found out that Stephan will not be graduating until December (a miscalculation on his part). He's taking a lighter class load and is getting 20 hours at work, for which we are grateful. He was working 15 last semester, which made things really tight after my layoff. I'm back to watching Aiden a few times a week and trying to organize our apartment better.
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