Christmas

Proudly putting our tree into the holder.

The price tag in which our name goes on came off, so we got the tree for $21 instead of $45.  Score!

Yup.  We're cute.
My beautiful "visual prop" Christmas present.  Love it <3

Christmas Brunchings

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas...

See the box all the way to the right? Yup-- It's mine!

Christmas dinner @ the parent's home!

Merry belated Christmas, world. Life has been too crazy lately. Haven't really had the chance to sit down to write anything worth reading. (Not saying this will be either)

Anyways, this year we created a lot our own traditions. Instead of purchasing a tree from the farm, we went to Home Depot for one. It was so organized! I so impressed by the service, efficiency, and the professional tree loading people. They deserve an award, for being able to make so many families happy by sending them off with a nice fragrant tree to decorate together.

Christmas brunch was at Paul Kee, Chinese food-- go figure. (Nothing else was open) It was delicious, nonetheless. Present opening happened at our place, he totally tricked me this year. The night before he had worked and I picked him up. What claimed to have been our "visual prop" (he brought a huge box saying it was being transferred to a different location, "hand carry") I didn't want an ugly brown box in the apt, so we decided to wrap it, together. So, he had a decoy (small Gucci bag with a small box). There was nothing in the box!!! Just a little card that said, "Merry Christmas! I love you!" He saw the confusion in my eyes, and directed me to our visual prop (the largest box under the tree). Which indeed was my real gift. Sneaky boyfriend.

After tearing off the wrapping paper like a barbarian, there was a huge GUCCI box inside! Layers and layers of tissue paper later, finally... The most beautiful gunmetal GUCCI bag was in there! I was really really surprised. I feel like I catch on to those things so quickly, I'm hardly ever surprised. But so far, he's always surprised me. Success.

Christmas dinner was at my parent's house. So happy that Justin (his younger brother) was able to come along with us.  The holidays felt especially warm this year. Definitely like never before. I feel like I have a family now.

Grateful for him, and the change in my life he has made.