christmas gifts galore!

Christmas turned out pretty good except for it being kinda a really long day, didn't sleep very well on Christmas eve and woke up early to put the rest of the gifts out for my lil brothers. i was so tired my head hurt so after we opened presents and ate breakfast i had to go back to bed for about an hour so i would be able to function for the rest of the day.. I spent Christmas eve with my family, my mom,dad, lil bros and my lil sisters and my grandma from my dad's side came over early the next day, we watched The Santa Clause as my mom finished wrapping presents. from my family i got: skinny jeans, new shirts/sweaters (really needed new warm clothes), a grey hoodie, necklaces, tons of bracelets and earrings, Bed Head hair stuff, pajamas, beauty stuff like face wash and soap.

I got my family: dad-suns tix,movie and wallet; mom-new clothes,butterfly cameo music box, art stuff, and cute jewelry stand; my sisters-new clothes and movies; lil bros- learning laptop, cars and floor mat, play tent and tunnel, pillows, stocking stuffers, lego's, and crayola glow board and art stuff; and Derek got them Wall-e.

after spending time w/ my family, i went over to Derek's to open up my presents and have Christmas dinner. i noticed on their family stocking they added my name and lately his family has been calling me Aunt Arielle in which my mom talked to my aunt in NM and my brother Joe's girlfriend that he's been with ever since he moved to CO is pregnant, kinda exciting hopefully this new baby will bring us all a lil bit closer.

when i got to Derek's, his nephew Kolton wanted to know where the presents i got him were right off the bat.. haha.. we eventually opened presents after eating some appetizers cuz we were all hungry and Kolton finally got his wish to open presents after asking every few minutes, i was kinda anxious myself. =)

Derek got me: nightmare before Christmas, Horton hears a who, polar express in 3d, few pajamas (one silky black pair that he had me open away from his family haha) , new shirts including a harajuku one, a new cute outfit that the employees at Charlotte russe helped him out with and telling him how lucky his girlfriend was, that's right bitches! =) anyways he also got me The Lion king off Broadway tickets at gammage!! so excited!
his sister Emily got me: a makeup kit from ulta, new shirt, a gwen orange county girl shirt.
his mom got me: a 3 set of Gwen purses (purse, wallet and makeup bag, That's the pic you see!) from Macy's!, Gwen perfumes (also from Derek's grandma) new shirts, black hoodie, necklace and bracelets, and sleeping beauty DVD, and Giada Delorentice cook book for Derek and me to share.

i got Derek: Tampa bay buccaneers dart board, beer mug, shirts and hat; a Jack Daniels cook book, mickey mouse's nightmare snow globe, and of course movies. we had $ 200 budget on each other and did pretty well i must say.
we got his family photo albums and spent a really long time at cvs printing out pictures for them of the kids, and got his sister new shirts, his dad a bottle of wine and his mom bbw stuff in her fave scent and a food processor.

it turned out to be a very good Christmas, full of presents and family,i'm looking forward to more Christmases like this, OK minus the lil drama here and there that comes along with it at my house AND at Derek's! oh well, that's family for ya right? The best present of all.

puppies and stuff

So Derek's family dog (chocolate lab named Brandy) had puppies early Friday morning, I went over to Derek's for thanksgiving after being with my family and Derek took Brandy to his sisters cuz they didn't want to leave her home alone and I walked in to see her in the garage and she was HUGE, I had a feeling she was gonna give birth really really soon and sure enough as soon as she settled and got in her bed and after thanksgiving was all over with, we woke up the next morning and she was nursing her newborn babies.
The number of pups kept changing, at first we thought it was 8, then it went down to 7 (cuz one got suffocated) and then Derek counted them after getting Brandy new bedding and there was 11! and the next day there was 12 and counted again there was 11 (she had a stillborn that was born late) and now its 10 puppies cuz another got suffocated cuz they get underneath the mama and she doesn't know they are underneath her like that. There are mostly little girl puppies, Derek wants to keep a boy.
We have to help Brandy feed them since there is so many she can't feed all of them when they all get hungry, so we feed them goats milk with honey. Some of them don't take to it too well and some sneeze when they drink it, and some gulp really loud cuz they think its tasty, its cute=) This doesn't really help us too well cuz i can sense we are getting attached to them by doing this. Its like taking care of your own babies, and they are only gonna get cuter. It kinda sucks we will have to give them away, but at least to good homes of our friends so we can still keep updated on how they are and see them every now and then. Derek and i were watching YouTube videos on lab puppies and I was so excited to see how much cuter they are gonna get.

anyways.. I am off duty today and tomorrow from helping out and taking care of the puppies. I am going Christmas shopping with Brittany cuz I barely have started on Derek's presents! so today we are going to the pavilions and then putting up the tree tonight when we get back, and tomorrow I'm gonna go see Four Christmases, hang out and eat some food with Amers, should be good times!