A Christmas Review!

Hey all you blog readers out there--as you can see I'm on a bit of a blog (and work) vacation, hope everyone else is too!

This year was a very different Christmas for me. First of all, it was my first one ever away from home. Although I did live away from home plenty of other years, every Christmas eve was still spent at my parents' house and Christmas day was spent together or with other family. This year, I decided to take a break from all the traveling and hang here with Becker for my first So. Cal Christmas.

I was a little dubious at first when I found out that instead of the traditional ham or roast dinner we'd be having mexican, and instead of bundling up in our sweaters we would be playing games outside in t-shirs and sunglasses, but you know what--it was great! Although I missed my family a lot, Becker is so so lucky to have the most amazing, warm, kind family who are just great fun people to be around.

Christmas morning started off at Becker's house, and we opened up our presents to each other there. I got this killer watch, which I had been asking my dad for for about the past 10 years!:

I am so excited, I am never taking it off! I also got the cutest skirt from the Stephanie James Store--I saw it when we went to a party about a month or so ago and loved it. I would have bought it that night but there was a party going on so he went back and got it for me. The other really great gift was a jacket from Ted Baker that I saw back in October when we were in Vegas and fell in love with. Score!

I got to give Becker his main gift a few weeks ago--the trip to Hawaii to see U2, but I wanted him to have something fun to play with on Christmas so he got the Canon G7 camera he's been wanting:

Here's a shot of us with that little camera:

By the way, I bought myself a little gift too--the 50 1.2 lens--it's amazing! All the shots on here that I took were with that lens.

I love wrapping presents--the more elaborate the better!