Christmas Wrap Up

We had a really nice Christmas. It was very relaxed and leisurely. We didn't rush to open presents. We just kind of did it in stages and it was really nice that way. We relaxed, ate and watched movies. So a really quiet nice day.

Today we were out bright and early (although it wasn't very bright here yet at that time.) Our tradition is going to Target. I get cards, tags, ribbon, tissue and the like after Christmas for the next year. I noticed that there wasn't as much stock this year - before Christmas or after. I wonder if because of the economy the stores just didn't order much knowing they would be stuck with it? Not sure but that is what it seemed like as even before Christmas Target's Christmas card section was pretty small so after it was kind of slim pickins. But I still found some I liked.

Tomorrow we have to work most of the day with a client at her home. And then Sunday we will be leaving for an overnighter to Ouray, Colorado. It is a beautiful little snow covered town nestled in the mountains. I know they have snow now but when we passed through there on our last overnighter just before Thanksgiving they didn't have ANY snow which was really unusual. But this time there will be snow. Colorado has had quite a few snow storms - including Grand Junction. We usually have no or little snow at Christmas but this Christmas was a VERY white Christmas! Which I loved!

Here are a few random pictures...(click on pictures to get a bigger view)

We had really wanted an Obama ornament as the election played a significant role in our lives for 2008. And we are Obama supports so it just made sense to us to have an Obama ornament to represent 2008 on our Christmas tree. We got that off of cafepress.com. Cafepress always has a great selection of Obama merchandise.




Our table for Christmas Eve dinner - very simple. Those dishes we bought at Kohl's on Monday with some of the Christmas money my parents gave us. And then the candlesticks were a part of the 12 days of Christmas package my family sent us. The other candle is from our first trip to Ouray, Colorado. We bought it for our first Christmas together and it is always on our table for Christmas Eve dinner.

We got 2 of the round plates and then 2 square plates to use as platters for food and then Christmas goodies. Plus we got one 4 pack of appetizer plates that we used for goodies yesterday.

Also you can see the little village of ornaments behind the table.