the MOST wonderful time of the year!

if you know me, you probably know that i've never been a huge fan of Christmas. i'm sure when i was little i got excited about santa and everything. but after that, i never really enjoyed it.
but this year has been totally different. well, last year was good too - i was on a cruise!

bo really likes Christmas, and it's rubbed off on me. we've done every possible "christmasy" tradition with morgan that we can think of. we braved 30 degree weather to watch the christmas parade. we rode around looking at christmas lights - while morgan kept telling us to "be quiet" and "don't talk" for some reason. she is very demanding! morgan got an "elf on the shelf" that she named curtis from her mae mae. that was a really fun tradition that we plan to continue for years to come.
and i guess it helps to have a preschooler. she was very excited about santa and gifts and everything - it's the first year she's really understood about santa. unfortunately, morgan was at her dad's on christmas eve, so christmas morning was somewhat anti-climatic. but it was nice to for bo and i to open our gifts and get everything cleaned up and ready before morgan got home. we even got showered and dressed so that we looked halfway decent for the christmas video.

anyway, for christmas this year morgan got: a swingset (which bo and his dad, granddad, uncle and cousin put together for 6+ hours in the freezing cold), 2 baby dolls, a baby stroller, swing and high chair, a portable dvd player, clothes, coloring books, markers, dvds, an aquadoodle mat, some books, a necklace and bracelet, press-on earrings and lots of dora stuff.

bo and i pretty much bought each other the stuff we told the other to get. i did suprise bo with a bunn coffeemaker. he had no idea he was getting it, so that was fun. bo got me several gift cards, some cooking supplies and a weight watchers cook book.

we also got a TON of stuff from bo's parents. his mom goes all out for christmas. i got several pieces of my gail pittman pattern (which is going out of business :-( so sad), some gift cards, some pottery from peter's and mccartys, and some money$$$$ - bo's favorite gift!

my wonderful husband really made this the best christmas ever - he works really hard at everything he does and he supports me at everything i want to do - including our "biggest loser williams family edition" which will be covered in a later blog.

i hope that everyone who may read this had a wonderful christmas and that 2009 brings many blessings to your lives!