Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

I hope everyone had a great holiday season! I know we sure did! 
We love this time of year because we are surrounded by lots and lots of very wonderful people!  We are so blessed to have such fantastic friends and family, we don't know what we would do without them! We laughed SO much, I think we burned off a little of that holiday weight!  It was a blast!  With the annual cookie making, parties with friends and family, playing LOTS of games, and eating WAY too much food....I don't know what we are going to do with our time now that the holidays are over! It always goes by too fast! But it was great!
This year for Christmas, Kyle and I decided that we wouldn't do gifts for each other so we could spend more on the gifts for our families!! We had a lot of fun trying to find the perfect gift for everyone! I think we did a pretty good job and it was great to be able to give a little more this year!  Our Christmas celebrations started the Sunday before with Kyle's mom!  We always go up there for a yummy dinner and to exchange gifts.  We have a lot of family to visit on Christmas so it's nice to be able to spend the whole night with them rather than rushing from place to place on Christmas!  On Christmas Eve, we went to my family's party where we exchanged white elephant gifts and ate yummy food! Christmas Day Kyle and I woke up and opened our stockings, then headed over to my parent's house to open our gifts from them.  After that we went over to Kyle's dad's house and opened gifts with them. Then it was off to my Grandma's house for lunch!  It was nice this year because we had a little bit of time to take a nap before we went to Ky's Grandma's house!  Even though it is a little chaotic for us on Christmas we love all the time we had with our family!


New Year's Eve was another time for us to be with family and to laugh and play lots of fun games, which we LOVE to do!  We went up to Kyle's mom's house for the night! His mom and step-dad put on the best New Year's party!  They have tons of snacks and we play board games, poker, and other little games that you can even win money! It's SO much fun!
New Year's is always a great time to reflect on life and make goals to help us grow and I love that about this holiday!! I realize how blessed and grateful I am for all that has happened.  In 2010....

Kyle and I had our first wedding anniversary!
I graduated Nursing school!
We got to go back to the Philippines!
and have made new friends!

In 2011...I hope to..

Get our own house!  (and for Kyle that means getting a dog too!)
Go back to school for my Bachelor's Degree!
and Spend more time on others!


I can't wait for what this year is bringing!  New babies and new beginnings! Hope you all had a great 2010 but will have an even better 2011!!