Our family's journey through life

 With only six days tell Christmas.I am kinda in a panic. I should have most of my Christmas shopping done.Right?You would think if I was smart it would have been done months ago before every shopping center is packed with last minute shoppers like myself.

Just thinking about having to brace the crowds tomorrow to find the perfect gift with only five days until Christmas well I am starting to panic! Oh where is my personal shopper when I need them? I only have maybe 60% of my shopping done. This is the last weekend to get it all done.Yikes!

At least I have some of the wrapping done on 40% the gifts I have already purchased/hand made.Thanks to my little Elf....he is such a helpful little Elf!
Update: We had an amazing Christmas (pictures coming soon before Easter..promise)Their was really no need for me to panic everything came together nicely. Looking forward to 2010 Christmas but kinda glad we still have 353 days to go. It's nice to get back to the swing of normal everyday life. Love the holidays but it can be kinda exhausting....I am still recovering.

My mother  (aka Grandma Outrageous) came to town. We celebrated a little bit of Christmas six days early. The night before our little bit of Christmas we made Fake Turtles with the intentions of us giving them away in cute little Christmas tins to all our friends and family. Well they are literally mouth watering goodness you can't just eat one. You can't just eat five.....They are ridiculously good. Needless to say I had to buy more of all three ingredients so we would have enough to share the goodness with all of our friends and family.

* I promise friends and family I will make more and share the goodness (thanks Kari for sharing your recipe)

While we were munching on our Fake Turtles in complete bliss we watched a Christmas movie Elf which is becoming a tradition in our family.

We laughed.we munched.we laughed.we munched. Well you get the idea. I think I will be avoiding the scale until the new year.or until I hit the gym for a good month straight. Then maybe I will have the courage to hop on the scale.For now it's the holidays and I am going to eat has many fake turtles until the new year.

The next morning we opened up gifts and I made sweet potato waffles (another favorite new recipe I discovered) We had a lovely little bit of Christmas six days early. Because of distance had having four sets of  families. It makes it difficult to be able to spend the Holidays with all four sets of families.I can't even remember the last time I had Christmas with my mom. Kinda sad.

I think my mom and my immediate family (my man and little man) will make this a family tradition. It may be six days early but we can still celebrate Christmas together.We were sad(sniff sniff) to have to say goodbye this afternoon.but thankful we  were able to have the last twenty four hours together.

It felt like Christmas...Six days early.

We had a fabulous first Christmas with our little warrior. Owain was so excited when he saw his rocking duck under the Christmas tree. He waved his arm and said "duck,duck,duck!" This is the very first time we heard him say duck and it was priceless. It was one of those moments I really wish we had the video camera on.

We spent the whole day in our pj's,ate yummy food,watched Christmas movies and just hanged out with family.I would have to say this was the best Christmas ever! I feel incredible blessed to be Owain's mother and have such a wonderful husband and amazing family and friends.

Daddy made a cute little snow family. Can you see the resemblance?