Christmas time is by far my favorite time of year. I fill our little apartment with holiday chotchkies and candles that smell like evergreens and cinnamon. I pray for snow every night and start planning our yearly Christmas photo card in October. I make cookies almost every night and study the Real Simple and Martha Stewart Living holiday magazines for inspiration before bed… I turn into a little bit of a Christmas junkie but I love it. I made gingerbread candies for everyone I work with and boxed them up with green satin ribbon – it was beautiful.
This year for Christmas, Chad and I got our tree from a local farm in Charlotte because making the drive up to the Christmas tree farm in Boone just wasn’t going to happen.
Ledford Tree 09
We promplty decorated the tree and Chad did a great job of putting the finishing touch (our Michael Robert’s elf-man-thing).
Chad and our Tree
We decided not to employ Jon this year to take our picture (for time’s sake) and I have to admit, our 2009 Christmas Pic came out a little dark. So next year, we will beg Jon to come back and take our photo but for now – here is what we came up with:
Ledford Christmas 2009
As usual, we made our trek to Chapel Hill to celebrate the holidays with the family. It was wonderful and we had a great time. We finally made it to the annual Wendel Christmas party and we had a blast! I even got the family to play Apples to Apples (best game EVER… especially with spiked eggnog)!
Apples to Apples
Per tradition, Chelsea and I made a gingerbread house from the JWU baking club gingerbread kit. It had everything from a pond to a candy cane light post.
Gingerbread house 2009
Dad succeeded in putting the topper on the family Christmas tree on Christmas eve and we woke up in the morning and guess what… Santa totally arrived. It’s sad now that absolutely no one in the family believes in Santa anymore but I guess that’s what happens when people get to be “too cool” and all grown up. I remember crunching up carrots and putting them in the front yard so that it looked like the reindeer had been there… too much fun.
Dad and the Christmas tree topper
We had a great time in Chapel Hill for Christmas. Chad and I played with our new toys and even Moe was content with his presents. We had planned a trip to Boston just for fun so Chad and I were on our way the day after Christmas, when we returned from our trip, we celebrated Dad and Cheryl’s 20th Wedding Anniversary and then we came back to Charlotte for New Years. All in all it was a wonderful holiday break and I am looking forward to what 2010 will bring!
Moe and his Christmas present
I have been enjoying working at Johnson and Wales too. My staff is pretty good and the people I work with are amazing! I am really happy here and I think we will be staying here for a while… not necessarily on campus again but we’ll see. Our apartment is pretty good, about a fourth of the size of our apartment at LR but hey, at least it is not crawling with fist-size spiders! AND I have a full size oven (WOOHOO).
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