Dec. 18, 2011

Last night was AWFUL!!

I took a couple of benadryl to help me sleep (I was too excited to sleep!!) at around 9:00pm or so, and I was woken up by the herd of elephants upstairs stomping around at 10:30.  And I could not go back to sleep.  I tried, I really did.  I played soft music, I played some ambient sounds.  I played some games on my iPod to try to tire me out.  Nope.  WIDE AWAKE.

I finally gave up around 3:30am and decided to get up and get ready.  Good thing I did, too.  My one checked bag was pretty heavy, so I took stuff out and put it into a second.  When I got to the airport, it was a really good thing I did that, because my big checked bag was just shy of 50 point at which they charge you more money for having an extra-heavy bag.

Besides that, the flights were fine, although the three-hour layover in Denver was unpleasant.

I got to the airport a little earlier than anticipated, and my boyfriend wasn't there just yet.  He got stuck in traffic.  So, I grabbed up my bags from baggage claim, and stepped outside--and there he was!!  I cannot express how GOOD it was to see him!!

Then, we went out to lunch and went HOME!  He decorated the place so well!  All our little figures (our Chinese dragon, our Indian statue, etc.) had Santa hats, and the tree looked AMAZING!!!

I am so lucky!!  It's gonna be an awesome break!  So long until next year!!

This is our GORGEOUS tree!! 

This is one of our special ornaments for the year; we are adding two special ornaments each year, in hopes that one day we will have Christmas trees with just unique ornaments!

Here are our other special ornaments; we actually got three this year.

Here's the North Pole Village we are collecting.  We actually have many more than these three, but these are the three oldest in the collection!

Our pair of teddy bears in their Santa & Mrs. Claus outfits!

Nightmare Before Christmas scene!!  I love this!!

Here's our Indian statue with a Santa Hat!

Like I said--everything had a hat....