Christmas 2011

Christmas came and went in a flash this year. I can remember my parents saying when I was younger that the older you get the faster time flies. Now I understand what they were talking about. This was my year to work Christmas at the hospital. Although it is usually never that busy on Christmas day the days leading up to and following are crazy because everyone is trying to get things done before the holidays hit. Between Christmas and New Years I ended up working 13 or 14 days straight and this pregnant momma was beat. Throw in the actual holiday with cooking, baking, present wrapping, elf shenanigans, and daily household business and I was ready to collapse. Luckily, my awesome husband came through with Christmas dinner including a standing rib roast which was excellent. We were lucky to have Nana and Aunt Danae over for Christmas dinner as well as our adopted Tallahassee Family, The Ochs. I love a house filled with laughter, memories, story telling, and utter chaos. In my head I have this idea of how I want things to go, pictures I want to capture, memories I want to make, crafts I want to do with Olivia, and then reality sets in and my ideas fall to the wayside. We did manage a family picture this year which is one step ahead of last year. All in all Christmas was wonderful, and we wouldn't have spent it any other way.