Although its already been a few months, I'll start with a quick recap of our first holidays together. Thanksgiving was a bit of a personal triumph as we were able to pull off a full spread (minus the delicious sweet potatoes grandma brought) in our tiny apartment. Thank you Alton Brown for imparting your turkey knowledge onto we first-timers! Ironically, the only thing that didn't work out was the boxed pumpkin pie- that'll teach us to attempt to take short cuts!
{Joseph hones his carving skills on Mr Turkey}
Christmas was (of course) a ton of fun including running around to visit various family members and friends. We had a skinny little Christmas tree (which I somehow managed to miss on all of our pictures) and a few strings of lights on our second story railing. We established a new Christmas Eve- Eve tradition of watching Muppets Christmas Carol (which I had never seen) with friends, and then moved on to Christmas Eve with my family. This year was slightly different because they chose to keep it a 'dry' Christmas, meaning no alcohol- needless to say Joseph was thrilled to 'get off easy'. Our favorite part was by far Christmas morning. Joseph was especially excited to finally rip the wrapping off the big box that had been taunting him for the past few weeks.
{Have you ever seen a smile so big?}
Joseph got me a lovely new iPod nano with double the space of my old so I now don't have to delete half my iTunes library whenever I want to add new songs. Plus a book on the art of Tangled (which if you haven't seen- go forth!). Speaking of Tangled, we enjoyed several family outings during the vacation- including a trip to the Midway aircraft carrier on Black Friday, and then down to Hollywood to ride the train and see Tangled for our niece Hannah's birthday.
{Jaron @ Grauman's Chinese}
{Disney Ice Cream Parlor. Yes- we consumed that monstrosity and yes- it was delish}
And of course, no vacation would be complete without a trip to the good ole land of Disney with our good ole married buddies Stemanda.
{Snow-capped castle}
And so now we're pressing forward through school (half way through the quarter!) with the hope of spring break glimmering in the distance. Not to mention an anniversary in there somewhere. However, I promise to update earlier than that.
Cross my heart!
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