Almost ChristmasPosted by Britt on December 21st, 2009
Christmas came early in our house, like it does every year. Joel and I have always done our Christmas early. When we first started dating we weren’t together on Christmas, so we would exchange gifts before we left school. The last few years, we have just continued to do our Christmas early since we are going to Ohio and Indiana. This Friday (the 18th) we had our Christmas. We were going to wait until Saturday, but my gift to Joel required going and getting it and I saw that snow was on the way, so I wanted to make sure he got his present when he gave me mine. Joel’s present from me was a new TV! He has wanted one for years, but has never gone out and bought one. So I thought what a great idea to get him one for Christmas! Now, Joel is pretty picky when it comes to electronics and things to that nature. Can’t blame him, it’s what he knows. Instead of going out and buying him one and getting something he didn’t want, I told him what he was getting and then we went and got it. I had this whole idea to put a bow on the old TV and see if he could guess why there was a bow on the TV we already had…the only problem was, we didn’t have a bow! How we didn’t have a bow after all those wedding presents, I will never know! So that idea was ruined. I just had to flat out tell him, which wasn’t as exciting as I wanted it to be…but he didn’t care. He was just excited to be getting a TV. In fact, I had told him the reason we were doing this a day early was because it was suppose to snow, and he said “oh we would have still gone out in the snow!” After opening my present (which I’ll get to in a second) we went to Best Buy and he picked out a TV. Instead of eating dinner right away when we got home, he set up the new TV! I was glad he was excited about it, cause some times he’s hard to buy for (:
My present from Joel was really cool! A few months ago he had asked me to pick out my favorite picture I have ever taken. There are tons of pictures that I’ve taken, but I was able to narrow it down to just one. It was actually pretty simple! The picture I chose was a picture I had taken on our trip to Chicago at the beginning of October. In Chicago, they had a huge statue type thing of American Gothic. I thought it was really neat to be surrounded by buildings, so I had taken a few different shots of it. One in particular I took of it is just the top half of the statue with the sun rays shinning perfectly on it with the buildings around. (I’ll show below). Joel took this picture and had it put on a canvas for me. Not only is it on a canvas, but he chose to have them make it look like a painting. It is really cool! I am so excited to show it off! (picture below also.) He also got me a new lap top. I don’t have a lot to say about this because it is not here yet. It is not suppose to come in until after Christmas…but he told me that it was coming. The lap top we have now is not doing so well. It no longer holds wireless connection, so we have to have it hooked up to the internet through an Ethernet cable….AND the keys 6,7,y,u,h,j,n,m, no longer work. Luckily he had an extra keyboard that we hooked to it, but it is no longer an easy to carry around the house lap top…you have to stay put with extra room for the extra keyboard! I am excited to get it, and get photoshop on it!
The kitty got a little stuff mouse and a light up ball that she chases around the house! She finds anything laying around the house to become her toy. Her favorite are suckers!
This is the original picture
Here is the present hanging on the wall!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
