We got Oscar a really cute puffy vest for Christmas.
Unfortunately he is a little too pudgy for it. We need to exchange it for a larger size.
Stewie loved his Christmas gift, a new cat bed, so much he couldn't wait until the wrapping paper was removed to crawl in.
Here are a few more pics I took with my iPhone - he fits in the bed perfectly, looks like a cat danish. Despite shoving Oscar with his foot, Oscar finally got a chance to try it out himself. Maybe Oscar was feeling jealous after his too-small puffy vest.
As if it's not enough that I have a theme for each Christmas, Aaron and I have started mini-themes for our gifts for each other. This year he wrapped my gifts with a penguin theme.
Couldn't be cuter.
My theme for his gift wrap was "You got a deer - it's a Christmas miracle".
Here is our holiday card this year. It was a holiday/we moved! card. Today will be a flurry of wrapping paper and eating turkey at Grandmas. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!
This year's handmade gifts aren't as "handmade" as other years - we have been so busy with moving and unpacking. This year I burned CD's with my favorite Christmas music.
I made envelopes out of maps in keeping with my "traveling for the holidays" theme. The CD labels came with extra labels and that's what I used for taping the envelopes.
I stamped each CD with our name and labeled them with a Sharpie.
I made them for all our friends!
The Holiday Roadtrip Mix fits right in with my theme. Above is the other labels I made for wrapping, a license plate from the North Pole.
I think I can safely reveal this year's Christmas theme. I have been collecting maps to wrap presents all year - thinking the theme would be a recycling Christmas. Once we moved I thought the theme worked better as a sort of moving/road trip for the holidays. Hah!
I really loved wrapping gifts with maps - they worked out so well.
I made tags that are our our Smart Car and Mini Cooper with moving boxes/presents tied on top.
Stewie was soooo helpful when I was wrapping gifts.
I got two of these smoking guys last year in Germany. You put incense inside and the smoke comes out his mouth. I haven't used it because I was a little nervous about putting a burning cone inside a wood object.
I finally gave it a shot and it worked pretty well. This does not mean I condone smoking for real people.
We had a Christmas brunch this morning with Chuck, Tina and Lauren. I love brunch! We had fruit and sausage bubbles & squeak...
... and Aaron made ebelskiver - stuffed Swedish pancakes! Yum... chocolate inside!
Then we exchanged Xmas gifts. We got Lauren a set of cleaning toys! Not sure if that is a present more for her (or if she actually uses them, a gift for Tina)
Target has their really cute holiday t-shirts for $5 again! Aaron checked with every Target in town to find this Hedgehog Toboggan Rental shirt in my size.
I also got the Snow Bunny one.
Umm and the Snowman Marshmallow one too. Yeahhhhhh I got three - but I wear them a lot!
We wondered if we should get a bigger tree this year for the bigger house. The one we picked isn't much rounder - but it is taller! It looks funny all wrapped up.
It took us all night but we finally got it decorated.
Stewie was no help. He just laid around in his Christmas sweater. No help at all.
I haven't been to Pier One in years but recently I have been finding a lot of cute stuff there... like this owl Christmas ornament. Also check out the cool candle holder that you can hang an ornament inside.
Aaron got me the owl plus this cupcake ornament at Pier One. This cupcake one looks good enough to eat!
I just had to go and take a peek at the Martha Stewart Xmas ornaments at Kmart. I liked this one the best, a teeny little sewing basket. It would be great to do a tree of just craft ornaments.
It's Xmas at Starbucks! I love the cold drink cups with the candy cane straws. I already have a cold drink cup so I can't justify getting another for the straw but they sure are cute.
When you make a certain dollar amount purchase at Starbucks you get this Xmas CD. One trip picking up coffee for office mates and I had one.
