Merry Christmas!

I had this Christmas eve off... my first in how many years I can't remember. Before Joe blew snow outside, we had an oven-baked pancake breakfast. 

We had no agenda, but to put finishing touches on gifts and such. Our main event was the dinner. Then Joe's brother Mark came to stay with us for the night. We had a relaxing evening, watching a non-Christmas movie.

We woke up to a beautiful clear morning today, after some funky fog and rain last night. Hope Santa had Rudolph's red nose guide his sleigh. Merry Christmas everyone!

Almost Christmas... But Not Quite

The last stretch of work days before Christmas... I think I'm ready. Today, though, we didn't receive any UPS shipment at work, so I took afternoon off, anticipating to work extra few hours to complete all holiday orders hopefully on Thursday not Friday. 

With my time I got to bake Kahlua cheesecake this afternoon. The house smelled wonderful, and Joe gave me his approval by licking the spatula clean. Now we have a special dessert for Christmas to look forward to. Maybe sharing a few slices with some friends.... 

10 Days Till Christmas!?

Honestly, I've had much more hectic holiday seasons mostly due to my retail work environment. It's been busy enough, but I have good helpers and the workplace is managing to stay in good spirit... mostly. Still, time seems to fly by even faster this time of the year. I finally printed our holiday cards last week. Now they are dry and ready to be mailed out!

So, our cards were printed, presents picked... and, of course, our first official snow storm of season happened last weekend.

With plenty of goofing off in-between (oh, we are out Christmas shopping in town, let's stop and grab something yummy to eat!), we are slowly checking off our list. 

P.S. Joe hunted till the last day of rifle deer season as much as he could. He saw deer every day he was out... but toward the end his bucks became very illusive. Joe decided not to hunt any further. Good thing he had a chance to pull out all his gear before the snowstorm. There's always next year!