Chris and I both planned to have 2 weeks off at Christmas just to unwined from the semester. So no work and no school was a great Christmas present for us. We spent most of the time house hunting. The first day or two was fun...then it was stressfull, exhausting, and then gradually went to discouraging...then back to exciting. lol. If you've been house hunting you probably know what I mean.
We spent a lot of time with our families, which was so nice. During the school year they are so neglected. For the last two Christmas Eves we've spent the night with Chris's family so that we could get up with all of the little kids and open presents. This year we wanted to sleep in our own bed, and sleep in. However at 5:00am we both woke up and couldn't sleep any more. We got up, turned on some christmas music, and Chris started to put together my christmas present while I made breakfast. I was going to get a camera for christmas, but I decided that I wanted a rocking chair instead. (We got a great deal on the chair too. Normally it's $300 but on black friday it was $150.) For breakfast I made two kinds of crepes. Banana and nutella, and strawberries and cream. They were really good but way too sweet for breakfast, maybe for a fun dessert. After making ourselves sick after breakfast, we opened presents. Chris got a brand new bag for school that will hold his laptop, a nice sweater, and one of those plaid hats that have the things that cover your ears. His favorite feature of it was that it came with a bottle opener. lol. He said that he'll wear it when he takes our kids sledding so that they'll be embarressed. lol. He wore it all day on christmas. I'll try to get a picture of that on here.
We went to our parents houses afterwards and got rubber car mats, baby toys and books, a crib mattress, and our first little baby sweater. Chris loved the sweater because it was a batman sweater that lights up when you move. Chris loves batman. He got the dark night for christmas and has already watched it multiple times.
our Christmas was wonderful I could go on about it forever, but I won't.
I'm going to shorten the story of our house hunt. We found a house in Lehi and put in an offer, but somebody else got it. We found a forclosed house in Saratoga Springs and put in an offer on that, and we still haven't heard anything. We found a house one street away from house #2 and Chris fell in love. He saw the house with out me because I was at bridal showers and baby showers all day long. I haven't seen the whole house, but I've seen some pictures, and got to see the inside from the front porch. The house is a short sale. We put in an offer and the sellers accepted it, but now we are waiting for the bank to approve the offer. That's the really short version. Here are some pics of the potential house....
And here is a picture of Chris and I at a friends wedding a couple months before we got married. I can't believe it will be two years on Tuesday!
