Hello all! Hope everyone's Christmas and the ringing in of the New Year was as great as mine! I promised a post over the ice skating and lights, and made a mental promise to post about Christmas, so why not throw the New Year weekend in there all in one! :)
Cameron and I joined his good friend Joey and his girlfriend Kristin in Bricktown a few weekends before Christmas to ice skate! I think it was every one but mine's first time to ice skate, and the boys were immediately comfortable on the ice and left Kristin and I in the dust! (Just for the record, the ice was seriously run down due to not having the Zamboni out on it for a while, thus making it very hard to skate on...a couple of weeks later we went to Stillwater and got to ice skate on some nice, smooth ice, and I liked it much better ;)) After we had enough of the bitter wind chill, we stopped at the Bricktown Brewery for dinner before we headed to the Chickasha Festival of Lights! Here are a few pictures from the day:
A few pics of the rink..
A few pics of the rink..
Joey & Kristin
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The week of Christmas, we had the pleasure of going to Stillwater to visit Cameron's dad, step-mom, and brother and sister. It was such a good time! As mentioned before, we also got to ice skate there and enjoy some Hideaway Pizza and Eskimo Joes. Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures while there. The following weekend was Christmas, and we spent Christmas Eve celebrating with my family at my mom's first with my sister and her group, then later with the rest of the fam at my Grandma and Papa's! Saturday Cameron and I exchanged gifts, and he surprised me with tickets (and other goodies, too) to the touring Cirque du Soleil show, "Alegria!" It was nothing short of wonderful.
My nephew, Hudson, loving a rolling horse my mom got him
Grace modeling her new helmet for her bike from Santa (My sister sent Santa a text message asking him to drop off their presents a night early since they were going to be away from home on Christmas Eve ;))
One of my favorite gifts :)
The gift I put together and made for mi madre!
The tree at Grandma and Papa's...and that is only half of the gifts!
Grandma and Papa opening their gifts...(My sister got better pictures of them two and of all the families grouped together..I'm going to try to get a hold of them and post them later!)
Family Christmas Tradition: at the end of everyone unwrapping their gifts, we have a major paper throwing war. While opening gifts, it's best to prepare and start rolling up your paper in balls, and keeping any boxes you got for a shield. It's always a fun time! :)
Cameron smelling some Polo body spray I got him!
Some of my goodies from Cam in my stocking at his house :)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I spent New Years Eve in T-Town at my sister's! Unfortunately Cameron was working, but I was still happy to celebrate with my family. My niece Grace even made it to midnight! Barely, but she made it. :) I didn't get many pictures from that night, but we stopped at Wal-Greens before that evening and got some decorations and confetti poppers, and Grace got a light-up champagne glass that she drank milk and water out of throughout the night. :) Here is a picture of her posing with it:
The next day the Sooners played int he Tostitos Fiesta Bowl...and won!! (Boomer!) Grace and I were decked out in our Sooner get-up and red lips (her fav) and Hudson was in a new OU shirt too! :)
Next week school starts back up and things will get busy again, which is bummer because this break has been SO nice. I don't have much exciting going on between now and the end of February/ the beginning of March (a trip to Austin for Cam and his friend Clint's birthday and then a trip to NYC for Cam's birthday also and our one year anniversary!:)) I may or may not get a post between now and then, but if I don't, there will for sure be one after that!!
