Thursday, October 20, 2011

Favorite Holiday!


My favorite holiday is Christmas! I know that Halloween is coming up soon but that's not the holiday that I'm looking forward to. Every year, I start planning for Christmas at the beginning of October. It is even more appropriate for me because I live in Wisconsin, where you can get snow now! I relate snow to Christmas. Nothing is better than a white Christmas. I have lived in places where there are rarely any white Christmas. I love gifts but that does not matter to me. I just love the whole idea around it. It makes me feel good.


This tree was from Christmas of 2007. It was the first tree that I bought all by myself for my family. I used my paycheck to buy everything on it. The total was around 300 dollars! I had so much fun decorating the tree.  I thought that the golden feathers were so cool so I bought twenty of them! There were approximately 250 ornaments on it and many yards of ribbon on the tree. I would say that I take tree-decorating very serious. I absolutely do not like the shiny aluminum-looking ribbons.



This is me at my sister’s mother-in-law’s house in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the time, I was living with my sister and brother-in-law. My sister and brother-in-law lived in a small apartment, so they did not put up a tree. We celebrated Christmas at their in-laws. It was extremely exciting because they had so many gifts because the family is big. There is a totally of 12 children.



Here is a picture of Mang and I. She is one of my sister-in-laws. This was Christmas of 2008. I received a few presents from the family because I was away from my family. It was nice of them giving me presents to make me feel included. I received some gift cards, magazine subscriptions, and perfumes. My sister also got me some clothes because she knows me best.



This was our first Christmas together being engaged in 2009. At the time, we were still living with his brother. It was such a beautiful day on Christmas. It was the best Christmas ever but also the most stressful Christmas because I was not used to being away from my family. David’s family made me feel at home.

Last year, my husband and I celebrated our first Christmas living together. Sadly, I think I invested more into my tree than the presents that I gave out. It was my first Christmas not having a traditional Christmas. I had to work, so we celebrated Christmas the night before. I forgot what I bought David but he got me a Playstation game controller. I was not thrilled but had to keep that on the inside. Oh husbands, sometimes they are so bad at picking out gifts.

This year, I hope to be able to buy something nice for my husband. I know that he wants the iPhone 4S. We’ll see if I can make that happen for him!

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