I lost count of how many Christmases we had!

Well, I'm probably not the first to point out that it's been a WHILE since my last blog post. So some things need to be said...Happy Birthday Mom, Zoe, Megan, and Mike! And Merry Christmas!!!!!!! =)

We had some awesome times with family and friends over the holidays. We also celebrated Christmas MANY times...But for me, that is the BEST! I LOVE CHRISTMAS! It was also our FIRST Christmas together as a married couple! We started our road trip on the 23rd after my last final, and headed to Ohio. Rocket wasn't too thrilled about all the car riding, but he did great.

We spent the first few days of our trip in Ohio with Matt's family. We had a great Christmas there and enjoyed seeing family. Christmas in the evening there was crazy because Matt has such a big extended family, but it was really fun to finally experience what they've all been telling me for so long! Rocket and their two dogs, Niles and Jack didn't get along very well until the last night we were there. Jack and Rocket played like crazy! It was so great to see Matt's side of the family!

We then headed to Chicago by way of Sandusky to see Ryan and Jill at a Starbucks. It was SO great to see them in person! There have been a lot of ichat's since we've last seen them in person! haha. They are great and we were so excited to see little baby "Ricardo's" baby bump and give him a present!

Then we stopped in Toledo to see some good friends Megan, Sarah and Ben. We played a HILARIOUS board game and ate lunch at Tony Packos. MMMmmm it was good. Then we hit up Starbucks again to see LC and Jess. So great to see them and catch up a bit!

We made it to Chicago! Good thing Mom arranged with Santa to come a little later this year so we could all be together!!!! There sure was a lot of loot. Zoe said the night before that there may be 29 presents under the tree...boy was she shocked when there was at least 100 under that tree!!! We had a blast and enjoyed Christmas day with the family. We had a lot of fun and had some good eats while in Chicago. Then our cousins came and we celebrated Christmas AGAIN! We also got an excellent cousins picture! Look how big my nieces and nephew are getting!

We got a silly game from Aunt Claire for Christmas. We played it into the new year and at midnight Mom got out leftover streamers from our wedding for us to throw in the kitchen. By the way, Happy 2010!

Also, while we were home we had the chance to see a lot of my great Glenview friends. I was so fortunate to see friends from many different "groups." Fun times were to be had by all... =)

Overall, I'd say...it was a GREAT Christmas. Hope it was great for you and yours as well...=)

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To see more pictures from the holidays, check out my facebook album at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2196177&id=30100032&l=203c4e4dbd