December:
A few weeks before Christmas Sol and I went over to my parents house to do Gingerbread trains with my family. It was fun except for the fact that I couldn't get Sol to help me at all. He is one that likes to sit back and criticize, which is exactly what he did. Here are a few pictures.
Yeah I'm pretty sure Sol is weird!! Ha Ha
The finished product!! Isn't it so pretty!!
This is my sister Kristina with hers. My mom helped her with it, which was so not fair since I had to do mine by myself.We had so much fun and I was extremely proud of myself for actually having my camera with me. The rest of the Holidays were fun. I got to take a few days off of work, which is always needed around the Holidays. Sol and I got to spend Christmas with both of our families this year. We spent the morning with Sol's family and had a great breakfast and opened presents. Sol got a new watch that he badly needed and other stuff that I really can't remember. His parents gave me a video recorder and they gave both of us a belgian waffle maker and I can't tell you how much Sol loves this gift. I'm sure if you lived here and have had as many waffles as I have since Christmas you would know. It makes huge waffles though so I can barely even eat one.
The rest of Christmas day we spent with my family. We went over to my parents and opened presents and then headed over to my grandparents. Like Thanksgiving, Christmas at grandmas is so good. It really is my favorite part of Christmas especially the white elephant game we do. Luckily this year I got the good white elephant. My grandfather is very artisitic and he likes to paint gords. They are the neatest things. Anyway, Christmas was great and of course it just went by way too fast. Like I said I can't believe it is February.
New Years was also an adventure and of course another family get together. I don't think Sol is used to doing things with family as much as my family does things. I guess its because we live so close to each other. Anyway, every new years day we go bowling with my mom's side of the family. Now in my family we just go bowling to have fun. None of my family is all that good and so we just go to spend time together, but now that Sol is apart of the family that has changed. He hates it when he is not good (well actually great) at everything. He refuses to have fun unless he is beating everyone. I'm sure by the picture below you can tell how he was feeling.
Yeah the first game we played he was pissed, but the second one he did good and was happy until the end when he found out that my cousin still beat his score. We all had a lot of fun though and I hope you enjoy the pictures of everyones lovely behinds as they bowl.
This is my poppa. You should have seen his little skip hop thing he did everytime. He blamed it on his shoes, but I'm not sure about that.
And this is my Mom. She is just so cute!!Luckily no one got a picture of me bowling, well at least they didn't take a picture of me with my camera. All in all the holidays were fun. We spent a lot of time with family which I love and Sol is getting used it all.
Also, Sol had is 22nd Birthday on the 19th of January. Sadly I again didn't take any pictures. I swear I am going to be a horrible mother since I never think to have my camera handy. Hopefully that will change shortly. Anyway, it was a fun day. We went to dinner together and then went and saw Marley and Me, which is such a cute show. Sol even liked the movie which is saying a lot. I still haven't gotten him his birthday present because he will only let me buy him the specific thing he wants and if I were to spend money on something else he would not be happy with me. What can I say? My husband is very stingy. We had fun together though which is the most important thing.
We are now counting down the days until Sol graduates and we can finally start our family and get out on our own. Only three more months, and then lets just hope that Sol can get a good job in this crappy economy. Of course it is just our luck that the economy would be like this when we are ready to settle down. Oh well, all you can do is pray and keep looking. I do know that no matter what, we will be fine with whatever happens.
