Oops Forgot About...

Oops! Forgot about the biggest (and heaviest) part of our week! We went to my parents house yesterday for a Christmas gathering. I work Christmas day this year, and Boxing Day we will be with Nate's family so we made plans to see my parents and sister this weekend and exchange gifts. First I have to share what we got for my geriatric fur children at my parents.. Bella with her Bells On and Jingle Cat! (So surprised we had no protests from Tigger about wearing this... none at all!)

My parents had asked us a while ago what we wanted, and after sending a few small ideas we approached them about helping us to buy a new TV stand/entertainment console. We found one we loved at Costco, and it was our Christmas gift from them!

Nate will tell you, getting it out of the packaging was the hardest part, but I'm still thankful he was around to put it together! This thing was H-E-A-V-Y, all 135 lbs of it!

Here is the finished product! I love that it makes our living room look less 'college dorm-ish' now that all of the wires are cleaned up and out of site, and it have somewhere to place decorations etc!

Here it is the next day. in better light, though the camera is doing something odd:

Halfway through, Nate realized he had left the base of the TV at his parents house (our previous TV stand held the TV in the air), and so he left to go get that... and when he returned he had a surprise for his greatful wife... Christmas jammies! Finally after a busy week and a busy Saturday we unwound and watched Sherlock together. (Seriously.. I'm hooked BBC's version of Sherlock blows Elementary out of the water... it's so clever and smart! I watched the whole first season in a day, and now I'm re-watching it so Nate can see it... It is that good!) Hope you all had a great weekend, and have found some time to relax in this busy joyous season!