Patience's new fair trade ornament
For the first time in many years we had a white Christmas in south eastern Oklahoma. On Christmas Eve we had a blizzard. The state of Oklahoma pretty much closed down. Here in the bible belt if church closes you know it's bad! Many interstates were closed and at one point all state highways were closed. My town even told us over our fancy sirens that we should stay in our homes unless it was a life or death emergency.
My new fair trade penguin ornament and Patience's organic stocking.
While it wasn't a huge amount of snow it was for us and we don't have systems in place to handle snow. In my town even the road by the hospital wasn't cleared!
Christmas morning the snow had stopped but the roads weren't cleared or salted so it was a VERY slow drive out to my parents house (they live outside of town). Thankfully my husband learned to drive in St. Louis with lots of snow and likes driving in snow or we wouldn't have been able to go.
My parents driveway and my brother and our cat.
We opened gifts with my family which is always fun and includes putting ribbons on our 14 year old cat who loves Christmas because he likes mess and as you can see in the picture he also loves being held like a baby.
When then went home and opened gifts with my in-laws. After that we had to play with our dog Patience in the snow, she loves snow as you can see in the pictures. She is normally a very calm dog and doesn't play much but she gets very hyper in the snow and is very happy. She even threw snow on my husband who of course threw snow back at her.
Patience running in the yard and what the yard looked like after she played in it.
We had a nice dinner with my in-laws and then relaxed all day. The next day we went to north Texas to try and find me a laptop which didn't happen as the one I liked no one had (in north Texas, Oklahoma, or Kansas!) so ended up ordering one from Amazon.
Normally I go to my grandparents house on Christmas day but no one could get to their house because of the snow so it got moved to Sunday. We opened more gifts, played with iphones (my mom got one for Christmas as did I and my brother already had one), ate, and had a nice relaxing day.
Today I went with my best friend (since we were 10 and 11) to Norman so we could do a bit of shopping. It's funny as we first went clothes shopping and I got one shirt and she got nothing. We aren't big clothes shoppers haha. We did get some stuff at the book store, we like books. We also had a nice lunch at what my mom and I call our hippie restaurant (The Pink Elephant Cafe). It was so much more fun that just getting each other gifts!
Tomorrow we will be spending New Years Eve with my family at a Flaming Lips concert. This was part of our Christmas gift. We will be staying at a hotel that is attached to where the concert is that night so it should be a lot of fun!
Hope everyone else had a wonderful Christmas/holiday as well! Have a safe and fun New Years Eve!