Fank you all!

What a great Christmas we had this year! We were spoiled by having both my mom in town as well as Levi's mom. We were completely overwhelmed with great gifts and every minute that we got to spend with family was so much fun.
Some of my favorite moments:
♥ Opening the big box from Levi which contained a big garden gnome. Needless to say I was stoked! I love garden gnomes and I've been wanting a bigger one for the yard. Also, he got me a Ward Hooper print of the Sawtooth Mountains. Ward Hooper is an artist that does retro-style paintings of famous Idaho and Boise landmarks. I'm so excited about my print! Here's his website. I love the Boise prints. Thanks Levi!
♥ Going to The Ram with Maria, Levi and Avery. Their steak is to DIE for. Too bad Maria wasn't feeling well and couldn't enjoy the food :(
♥ My wonderful mom filling Levi and my christmas stockings. Nobody stuffs a stocking like my mom! I got the traditional peanuts, Reeses's minatures and a chocolate orange. You're the best mom!
♥ Spending Christmas Eve night with my fabulous in-laws at my F-I-L's house. We opened all our gifts to each other that night and Levi and I made out like bandits.
♥ Watching Mamma Mia with my mom. I didn't realize I know every lyric to every Abba song thanks to my mom blasting their music whenever we did Saturday morning cleaning while I was growing up.
♥ Hanging out at Heather's house and watching the kids go ga-ga over all their great gifts. Their kids are so grateful and enjoyed all their presents. Heather's house always provides such a warm, relaxing feeling. I love going over there, especially at the holidays.

Well, hopefully I can get my camera working again and I can take pictures of the garden gnome and other fun things. I love you all and can't wait for next Christmas (although, if I could avoid working during that time I will!)

Great movie!

If you have the opportunity, I highly recommend you going out to see Slumdog Millionaire. It is such an amazing movie, is visually stunning and one of the best romance stories I've seen in a long, long time. I have absolutely no idea why it's rated 'R' and, like the film critic Eric Snider says, it should have been rated PG-13.
See it if you ever get the chance! It's your destiny :) LOL!

Why didn't anybody tell me....

....that MAKING Christmas presents is just as expensive, if not more expensive, than just buying the dang things! Now all my immediate family is going to end up with crumby gifts that I spent too much time and money trying to make special.
I should have done what I've done every year and just bought everybody books. What was I thinking??
Don't mind me, I'm just having my mid-December meltdown. I get to have one every year (working retail during the holidays entitles me to it.)

Haircuts and Happy Pups

So I'm branching out with my hair. Not only do I now have bangs, but I also had some darker streaks put in. I feel so adventurous (note the sarcasm)


Also, I uploaded this video of our dog Morty and his "happy dance." This is what he does whenever we say, "Morty, do you want to go for a walk?" Watch his front feet, they're as nimble as Michael Jackson. (Sorry there is no sound and the lighting is horrible. It's just from my digital camera)

Even the Grinch would cry at this

This little girl is an angel!

ATTENTION!!

I need favorite colors from the following people:

Scott
Stephanie
Mom
Athena
Whitney

Please either call me or comment on this posting with your color. It's for Christmas, so I'm kinda on a deadline :)

Thanks!
Carly