christmas - what joy!

So, I headed towards the 'burgh this Christmas excited for the wonderful-ness of the season! I wasn't let down, that's for sure! Here are some lovely pictures from my Christmas adventures!

We started off at the Newlyweds' place on December 23rd. We were having Christmas and also celebrating Bradley's 28th birthday. It was a wonderful time!

Here is a picture of their tree with some fun presents underneath!


Here is Asher with one of his Christmas presents from me. You know those shower puffies? Asher loves to rip them apart. So, I gave him one and in just a few minutes it already looked like this.


Here is Kristen, my sister-in-law, setting the lovely table.


Here is Bradley's birthday cake. mmmmm..... It was sooooo good!


Here's Asher sitting with my daddy.


And here's what that puffy looked like after Asher was through with it.


Here are Bradley and Kristen finishing up the last things for dinner.


While that was happening, the folks were looking at the tree.


Here we are sitting down to dinner. Bradley is retarded.


And here is a picture of what we had for dinner. It was wonderful. Lobster tail, filet mignon, rice pilaf, green beans, salad with a peach dressing, champagne, and birthday cake. Holy moly it's great to have a chef for a brother!


Here's Mambo enjoying his Christmas "Greenie". These are their favorite treats!


Here we are after dinner trying to take family pictures. We took so many shots it was crazy. Though, it was definitely fun to see all of the ridiculous faces Brad was making.


And here are me and Mambo while we were opening presents.


Here's our tree on Christmas morning!


Here's me being festive with a bow on my head.


And then my mom being festive with the huge Santa hat.


Here's Daddy in his Steelers gear holding his new Tiger Woods game that I got him.


And here's Mom holding the purse I bought her.


Here's the tree at my Aunt Dodi's house.


Here's my cousin, Mary, looking awesome with her bow-head.


She's pretty buff too!


And then there's Abbey who totally looked like a vampiress that day. What do you think?



And here's me and the vampiress, Abbey.


And here's Mary finally getting her Christmas clothes on. Well, here's her putting in her contacts.


My favorite-est cousins.


And here we all are.


All in all, it was a great Christmas! I love everything that I received - and as far as I know - everyone loved what I got them. And that is great!

The move to Atlanta happened yesterday. I'm sitting in the living room overlooking a beautiful sunset. I'll take some pictures of the place once we get a little more settled in. Andy's parents have been great and so excited to have us here.

Also, I'll give you the update on my Goals for 2007. I did very well, I can say that.

OK, dinner is getting close to being ready and I need to finish some stuff up.

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

~jen