christmas eve

i have to be honest, this just might have been the best christmas eve of my entire life.  bold statement, i know, but it really was just that great.

we started off the morning with a snowy walk at tanner park with dash and his new best bud benji miller.  they were the smallest dogs in size, but they had hearts of lions.

then daw and i went to try melty way and even though it wasn't as good or filling as we wanted, the main ingredient was cheese so i was happy.  i was supposed to work from 3pm-11pm but i was lucky enough to be first call off so right when i was about to get ready for work, i got the blessed call that they didn't need me!

we decided to go see hunger games since it was practically a crime that we hadn't seen it yet.  it. was. amazing.  maybe it's just because i am obsessed with katniss/jennifer lawrence but i loved the movie.  i don't even know how i am going to wait for the last one to come out.

after the movie we went to provo for the traditional mi ranchito christmas eve dinner with the whittinghams.  i got the cheese enchiladas with only mild concern for the fact that i had consumed enough cheese that day to clog at least a few arteries.

we had done our usual christmas eve nativity/white elephant exchange the night before because the nursing home we perform at asked us to do it on monday for "family night".  our performance this year was sub par, but grandma nancy did pull dawson aside and tell him that his acting skills were superb and stole the show.  i am so proud.

anyway, since we weren't ready for the night to end we headed over to the kents to watch it's a wonderful life and the christmas story.  on the way there dawson and i were talking about the east coast, and i realized that i had never met anyone from delaware.  dawson laughed at me and said "oh you mean maryland silly, delaware is the capital of maryland".  i knew the joke was really on HIM, since everyone knows delaware is the smallest STATE.  duh.

so i challenged him to a test of states and capitals.  we made blair and diana join in on the fun (i know this makes us sound extremely nerdy and it doesn't sound like fun, but oh it was).  between the four of us, we remembered an average of about 46 states each and only 10 capitals...  and i am not going to say who won the contest because i'm convinced that he cheated.

after our mental exertion we headed home to bed... and then decided we couldn't wait until the morning to open each other's presents.  don't judge us.

we both did surprisingly well with presents, considering neither of us asked for anything and we were both shooting in the dark.  i guess after 4 christmases we know each other better than we thought.

and so ended christmas eve 2013.  it might not sound like much to anyone else, but for me, getting to unexpectedly spend the whole day with my amazing husband and family, it was perfect (cheesyyyyy).