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

This past weekend I headed north to celebrate Christmas with my dad's side of the family and Derek headed south to celebrate his sister graduating college.  It was one of those times where you wish you could be in two places at one time but are not able to do so.


Christmas was fabulous!  Almost everybody was able to make it to my folks place for the early dinner.  Those who were not able to make it were definitely missed though.  Since moving away I don't get to see relatives as often as I would like to but I take what I can get.  I could not believe how big some of my little cousins are getting, absolutely crazy how fast little ones grow up in front of your eyes.


Speaking of how fast little ones grow, my nephew is going to be two years old shortly and I am just amazed at him every time that I get to see him.  He is so smart and so stinking handsome!  He has been expanding his vocabulary to include Aunties names.  My sister is now Auntie JJ and he decided that I am Auntie Mimi.  No idea where he came up with that but I thought it was adorable and just love him so much I don't care what he calls me as long as he recognizes me as his Aunt!


In preparation for Christmas my brother graciously borrowed his Christmas tree to me and Derek since it was not getting used at home.  We are so thankful that he did because we put it up last night after buying decorations for it and love how it turned out!  Now we just have to finish putting up decorations around the house to make it really feel like Christmas is coming in just 10 days!

"our" tree!

I know it was short but I am finishing up classes today and tomorrow for this semester!