Merry Christmas come and gone

Well Christmas has come and gone. It was a good Christmas and I can't complain too much. Something was just off this year. I guess because this was my first married Christmas maybe, maybe because last year we were just getting back from our honeymoon and I had more time off? I don't know, but that sparkle of Christmas didn't seem to happen this year. It was fun though. My mom and sisters came over Christmas eve and stayed until Friday because Joride had to work on sat. I worked on Mon and Tues and was supposed to work on Wed, but they told me not to come in. Now normally this would be a good thing but Jessica + day off of work = no money (didn't even get paid for Christmas). Anyway...Melanie had fun playing with Nanie as usual. It was nice to have the house full of people and smelling of baked good and yummy food. We went to Christmas Eve candlelight service out here in Clermont. We played the find people who look like people from our church in Dunedin game (since we don't really know anyone at this church yet besides Amy). We found Cindy, Jennifer, Cathy's Dad, and several other people that I can't remember at the moment. I got some good things for Christmas...a purse camera bag (technically not for Christmas, I got it for my anniversary but its totally awesome), a backup battery for my camera, Walle on dvd, the last season of gilmore girls to complete my collection, a lens cleaning cloth (that is currently missing), a bike (which I want to return for a lens or a speedlight because after one trip around the block I thought I was going to die) lots of candy, burberry weekend perfume, bath and bodyworks body wash and hand lotion, and hangers for my closet. Dave got some good stuff too...slippers, a start wars trivia book (from me ^_^), legend of Zelda for his ds (I love it cause it has kept him busy while I have been photo editing), a new jacket (so he won't look like a lumberjack if it ever gets cold again), a circular saw, a level, an electric carving knife, and lots of candy. So we made out pretty good. Now its back to work for 3 days and then some time off for new years. I'm looking forward to it. Keep your fingers crossed that I won't be allowed to drink during new years (we should know in a few days) which could be why Christmas wasn't sparkling this year. Anyway I hope everyone had an wonderful Christmas and that you were able to find some rest amidst the craziness of the holiday season.

Sea World

Dave and I went to Seaworld for a few hours today. It's nice to have the passes and not have to pay for parking. Plus you can go for a few hours when you are bored and having nothing else to do. The park was pretty empty today for some reason. Kinda nice though. We rode Kraken twice in a row with only the time it took us to walk around again. Then we rode journey to atlantis and got totally soaked by someone with those stupid squirters. Now if you know me you know I'm a fan of rollarcoaster, but not flume rides. So riding journey to atlantis was a big deal for me. I was proud of me and so was Dave. Then we went to see the dolphins. I didn't realise they only let people feed them at certain times. You have to pay to feed them and the dolphins only go to the side of the pool where they allow people to feed them so normal people (us cheapies) never get to pet them. No one was feeding them so instead it was play time apparently. They had basketballs and some round floaty things in the pool and the dolphins were grabbing them and throwing them around. It was sooo cute. Some would grab the ball in their mouth and them pop it up into the air towards us around the pool. If you could reach the balls you could throw it back to them. I don't know if we were playing fetch with them or if they were playing fetch with us. I did get to pet the tail and side of a dolphin as is swam by chasing after a ball. One dolphin was trying to play with a ball and a floatie and didn't want to share. Dave says next time when I bring my camera we can feed them ^_^ Overall it was lots of fun and a great way to kill a few hours for free.

New tree

This is the year of a new fake Christmas tree for us. We got a 7.5 ft, 750 pre-lit christmas tree. Dave wanted to take a few point and shoot pictures to show it off. So here you go.

Me under the tree strying to scoot it back before putting on the ornaments as the dogs run around (Nanie is my mom's dog who came to visit for Thanksgiving).

TaDa

We recorded the thanksgiving parade so my family could watch it too since they were driving over thurs monrning so it was background as we put up the tree.

Yeah..aren't we cute infront of our tree, sesame street and star wars t-shits and all.