Holiday Break 2012

Goodness, I have been meaning to blog about my holidays for days.  But everytime I thought about it, just wasn't enough time to sit down and do it.  So finally here I am.  I was off of work for about a week and a half.  The break started with us going to the Broncos vs. Browns game on the 23rd.  Thanks to some friends who have season tickets and were out of town, so they sold me the tickets.  I was absolutely thrilled.  Though I have been lucky enough to go to a few Broncos games, for free, and in the suite next to the owner's suite...this was actually my first time going to a regular season game!  Our seats were great, for December the weather was nice (minus the last 30 minutes or so when the sun went down and it got pretty darn cold), and of course my team played amazingly.

All ready to go!

 

View from our seats.

 

 

On Christmas Eve, I went to Christmas service.  It has always been a Christmas tradition of our family for as long as I can remember.  When I was a kid we would go to service on Christmas Eve, then go home and open one gift before bed.  Then the next morning we would wake up and open the remainder of gifts.  My brother was always awake first, and often was the one jumping on my bed shouing "It's Christmas, wake up!"  After church went home and spent the evening with my mom, stepdad, Chris's brother and his girlfriend.  We played Apples to Apples, which is one of my favorite games.  Then began opening some of our gifts.

 

Christmas day we woke up, finished opening gifts, had breakfast, then played a game of Cranium before his brother and his brother's girlfriend left.  That evening we headed to my aunt's to spend the evening with my dad's side of the family.  It was great to see everyone and catch up.  It was definitely a nice Christmas.  And I got some nice gifts which included awesome Coach sunglasses, a fancy Dyson bladeless fan, some cutes clothes, Bronco's gifts, an at home UV gel polish kit, and plenty of giftcards.  So I even got to enjoy some after Chirtmas shopping, where I got lots of cute clothes and a pair of boots I had been wanting.

 

 

 

 

For New Years Eve we went to dinner at a steakhouse called Mackenzie's Chophouse with our friends Megan and Jay.  After dinner we headed up to Cripple Creek.  The boys gambled, Megan and I drank champagne while goofing off at slot machines.

New Years Eve dinner

 

With Megan 

 

 I hope everyone else enjoyed their holidays and are ready to start of the new year!  It's the year of the snake (which I am) so I am hoping it brings nothing but great things my way!