Christmas and Such

I realized that it has been quite a long time since my last post, so this one will be extra long!

Finals and come and gone, and grades have been released. My grades were not a huge surprise, (A, A-, B+, C) I knew coming out that it was going to be up in the air in whether or not it was a B or 2 C's. So happy surprise to see a high B. 

My long work week has been a little rough on my sleep. I'm getting a lot better at forcing myself to sleep in the daytime or at night even if I don't feel the immediate need to do so. I also had Christmas Eve night get switched to an on-call shift, which was great and I got to spend the night at home with Landon.

We also went to Rand and Debbie's house last night for dinner and loved spending time over there. All the kids were enjoying various things, Emmitt and Kimmy were into the Harry Potter movie that was on, Rebekah and I dropped a present off at a friend of hers, and Adam was sleeping and then liked being held. 

Landon LOVED my faces for each present.

Dinner was amazing and probably the most healthy Christmas eve dinner I have participated in. Chicken, Squash, Asparagus, Rolls, Salad. I'm probably missing something, but the Squash was the perfect substitute for potatoes which we can't eat a lot of on our diet so it was very nice. We left before dessert but got sent home with some Cheesecake that we will probably eat tonight for dessert. 

Nom-nom-nom Candy!

We started opening gifts last night from each other and Mom and Dad Ostraff. We received a well needed mattress pad and 72-hour kits, among other things. Our gifts to each other were mostly candy and little things because our big present to each other this year was the Kinect. 

I told him to make a rage-ful face to match the games name.

This morning we had some Sara Lee Coffeecake (No Coffee in it I promise!) which is a tradition of my family, and finished opening our gifts which included a few more from Mom and Dad Ostraff, and all the gifts from Mom and Dad Rickard and company. We started at 6:00am and finished just in time for Landon to head off to work. Landon received many books that he had been wanting and I got some clothes that I have been needing. I don't feel like doing an itemized report of gifts so I will just say there was more than that under the tree though.

Yoga Pants!!

Landon has gone to work today where he is enjoying the holiday pay and will return shortly to me so we can spend the rest of Christmas together till I have to work at 10:00pm. 

This is how the color Lilac makes me feel.

Hope everyone's holidays were great and that you enjoyed the blessings that this time of year brings!

He got some little animal Post-its. A total Landon gift.