Merry Christmas!

Hooray for Christmas! So for the last few years for Christmas, Jon and I go up to my parents house for Christmas Eve (my whole family is still very kid like on Christmas morning, it's so fun!) and then we go to his parents house later on Christmas day. So, I've taken a bunch of pictures of my cute little Christmas decorations at my house, our Christmas presents, and pictures of Christmas at both parents house. Enjoy!

Here is our cute little hand-me-down Christmas tree with our cute little hand-me-down ornaments.

Here's kitty playing "Scary-Jungle-Cat-Who-Attacks-Things-Very-Ferociously" under the Christmas tree. Luckily she didn't completely destroy it this year! :)

I decided that my house still looked very non-Christmas-y, so I added some tinsel to the windows....

And some bells on the wall. It ended up looking half-way Christmas like in my house!

This is our early Christmas present from my parents - my dad loves to have excuses to get new toys, and his best excuse is giving us the old whatever so he can buy a new one! :) So they gave us their old TV so they could get a new HD. This one is huge compared to our old one! It's 37inches!

Jon is soooooo thoughtful! I've been wanting a piano since I moved out of my parents house, and since a real piano won't fit in our house (we physically can't get it into a room without tearing down a wall, which I had no objections to, but Jon didn't want to), so this year he got me a digital keyboard. It's great because it has the weighted keys and touch sensitivity and the actual pedals, so it's a lot closer to having a real piano then we were before! :)

Here's another picture of the keys...

So Christmas morning we designated 7AM to be the present opening time. If we all look super exhausted in these pictures then that's why! Anyway, here's Jon and Phillip (above), my (my beautiful morning self) and Jon in our new Utah State hoodies! (We turned him into an Aggie!) Don't worry Hunter family, I got him a BYU hoodie too. ;)

Ha ha, we're both a little crazy looking in the morning aren't we?

I didn't quite get my camera fast enough to catch all of the chaos, but basically how we decided to do presents in my family is we divide them up and then on the count of three, we all open our presents as fast as we can, yelling our thankyou's as appropriate. Then we have one person designated as the "Garbage Collector". This year it was Julie because she was sitting in the middle, so we all got to throw our wrapping paper at her. She put it in the bag as fast as she could, but still ended up getting buried under a 2 foot mound of it! But this is her trying to clean up after we got our backup garbage bag. It's fun this way. :)

Here's some of our random presents that we got. We got the popcorn bucket with candy from my Grandma Daugherty, with some money to get a movie with. Then we got some floor lamps from my Mom and a bunch of movies from randoms. Fun times!

Then possibly the best present we got (well, that Jon got!) was Jazz tickets! I gave him four tickets so that he could bring a friend, then I also gave my parents 2 tickets so that we could all go together. I can't wait!

After all of this we all went back to sleep for a bit before heading up to the in-laws....

To Be Continued...