Christmas & New Year's Eve!

Christmas Eve:
Keith and I both had to work on Christmas Eve. I started my new job at a restaurant called Bajio! It was interesting! I've been working there for five days now, so I'm getting used to it, but it was stressful at first.

After work Raquel and I were going to make dinner and eat at home, but our kitchen was a mess and we didn't want to make it even worse, or clean it twice in one night, so we all went out to eat! Steve, Raquel, Keith and I decided to go to Tepanyaki. I suggested it because the family from the Christmas Story went to a Chinese restaurant on Christmas ('tis the season to be jorry!).

We came home and found out that we had 7 hours worth of AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR recorded on our DVR so we had to watch all of them. That was our Christmas Eve activity. At 2:30 in the morning, we finally went to bed. Well, the guys did anyway. Raquel and I took the last chance we could to wrap our husbands presents. In order for them not to hear us wrapping presents, we bundled up and went out to my car to wrap them. It was SO cold! But it was fun. We snuck into the house and placed the presents under the tree and then went to bed at around 3am.

Christmas:
Keith and I woke up at around NOON. We went to the living room to watch the Disney Christmas Parade on TV. I said "LOOK! SANTA CAME!" and Keith was like "But those presents are probably for Steve and Raquel." I said "No, look, the red ones are for Keith!" and he was all excited. You see, we weren't planning on getting each other gifts because our birthdays are so close to Christmas. So we buy ourself a big gift for the two of us for Christmas. This year it was EPIC MICKEY! Anyway, so he was really happy that he had presents even though they were $1 each. :)

We had a couple of Christmas visitors. My nephew David came over! He was on his way from Chicago to California in hopes of a better life. I was on the way, so he stayed with us for a while! It was so good to see him. He and I basically grew up together in the same house for a couple years, so we have a lot of good memories. I missed him! I only get to see him about every 2 years it seems. We had a lot of fun playing video games and messing around like old times.

Later in the afternoon on Christmas, I was cleaning Nooni's litter box outside and a stray cat came up to me and started meowing like CRAZY! I gave her some food and she acted like she was starving. Poor kitty. I tried to invite her inside where it was warm. It took a while, but she came in! She was very grateful and was cuddling all over David. She was very friendly! Towards the end of the night she started getting vicious, so we put her outside. It's a shame. She had potential. It's okay though, Nooni didn't like her anyway. lol

On the 29th Keith and I went with Keith's friend Wes to BOISE. We went for their best friend, Jesse's wedding! It was fun! On the wedding day we went to Jesse and Rachel's sealing (which was beautiful). In between the sealing and the reception, the three of us went to see TRON LEGACY for the second time. :D

New Years Eve was chill. We bought snacks and watched TV and played games. It was a lot of fun! David was there with us again and then he left the next morning.

Happy New Year! :D