Why hello there! My absence lasted two days longer than I planned on it. We didn’t get back to Kamloops until late Tuesday night and yesterday was extremely busy with a morning of snowboarding and an afternoon of boxing week shopping, grocery shopping and errand running.

Anyways, I typed this post up last weekend after getting the idea from Caitlin’s blog. Here is a “day in the life” style post based on what I did Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!

Christmas Eve:

9:45 am – finally roll out of bed. I took a muscle relaxant for my tweaked back the night before and was so sleepy this morning. I literally could not pull myself out of bed!

10:30 am – eat a buttertart for breakfast and then some of the egg/hashbrown skillet my mom made. Putter around my mom’s house doing not much of anything other than eat a ridiculous amount of cookies and christmas treats.

12:00 pm – Eric and i are braving the masses to do last minute Christmas shopping.

2:00 pm – back at my mom’s house doing last minute Christmas wrapping.

4:00 pm – we start the 45 minute drive out to Eric’s parents house to celebrate Christmas Eve with them.

5:00 – open presents with Eric’s family and then spend some time with them munching on Christmas treats and visiting!

6:30 pm – break out the Monopoly board for a game!

8:00 pm – back to town we go!

9:00 pm – play a game of Clue with my mom and brother. Open one present each from under the tree (a Christmas Eve tradition).

11:30 pm – my mom, brother and Eric start a movie and I go to bed.

Christmas Day:

7:00 am – wake up with a start thinking I slept in too late and missed picking my grandma up. Realize the time and go back to sleep.

8:30 am – my brother goes to pick up my grandma so Eric and I roll out of bed. My mom is in the kitchen making breakfast and I put coffee on. We all sit around the table visiting.

9:30 am – my dad arrives. We eat breakfast and visit some more!

10:30 am – time to open presents! My brother divies them out and we all take turns opening them. Eric and I got spoiled by both our families this year!

11:30 am – Done opening presents. My brother got the game ‘Apples to Apples’ so me, my mom, my grandma, my brother and Eric start playing!

12:00 pm – Eric goes out to his parents for Christmas lunch and my mom, brother, grandma and I play another game of Apples to Apples.

1:30 pm – my aunt and cousin come over and we all hang out and visit some more. All the while we are munching on copious amounts of goodies!

2:30 pm – cousin, aunt, grandma and brother go to my aunt’s house and it’s just me and my mom. We clean up and read.

3:30 pm – Eric is back. Him and my mom rent a movie and I go lay down for a nap.

5:30 pm – I wake up from my nap and their movie is just ending. We start getting ready to go to my aunts for Christmas dinner.

6:00 pm – leave for my aunts at the dinner, have to go back to the house twice; once because we forgot to put the dog in the kennel and the 2nd time because I forgot my mushroom gravy.

6:30 pm – arrive at my aunts for a delicious Christmas dinner. On my plate: soy turkey, veg stuffing, mashed potatoes, carrots, brussel sprouts, mushroom gravy. My second vegetarian Christmas was a huge success!

7:30 pm – everyone is so full we can barely move! We start a game of Apples to Apples and then play a round of Clue. We eat pumpkin cheesecake with real whipping cream and some sugar pie at some point in there!

9:30 pm – leave to go back to my mom’s.

9:45 pm – Eric and I are both SO full we decide to go for a walk. It’s 1 C out and I wear capri’s on our walk.

10:30 pm – back from our nice long walk. My mom, brother and cousin are watching a movie. We sit down to watch with them and I start typing up this post.

12:00 am – Christmas Day 2011 is officially over and it’s time for bed!!

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Christmas is pretty laid back and relaxing in my family. I didn’t even really change out of my PJ’s and that’s the norm for us. I like it that way

Questions of the day: How was your Christmas weekend? What would a “day in the life” look like for you on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day?

Chloe is at the kennel, a friend is watching Webster and our house, my suitcase is packed and I’m likely on a plane home as most of you are reading this.

Only I’m going without something I normally take everywhere with me…

My laptop!

It traveled to Ottawa, Minneapolis, Victoria and Orlando with me this year and I normally take it home every Christmas to blog, read blogs, do general online things. But not this year. I’m only going home for four days and I want to soak up the limited time I have with my family and friends.

On the agenda for the next four days is my bridal shower (this afternoon!) I have NO idea what my MOH and mother have planned for me/it other than a top secret email was sent to Eric. I can’t wait!

Then Saturday, Sunday Monday and Tuesday will be dedicated to family and friend time. It will be a quick trip and I want to soak it all in!

I’ll still have my iPhone so it’s not like I’m taking a COMPLETE technology break But I won’t be updating too much. I’ll catch up with blogs, posting my 366 photos and all that jazz when I’m back on December 28. I am taking my camera so will have lots to catch you up on I’m sure.

Until then, have a very, very happy holiday friends! XO

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Question of the day: Are you taking a social media break over Christmas? What are your holiday plans?

On Thursday night Eric and I spontaneously decided to celebrate Christmas early since he was heading home the next morning. It was such a fun, spontaneous date night that started with sushi and ended with exchanging gifts!

After dinner we went to Walmart to buy some wrapping paper so we could actually wrap our gifts for each other. We got the cheapest stuff we could find which ended up being Toy Story and Disney Princess wrapping paper with a Christmas theme. Meh!

While sipping on applie martini’s and stuffing our faces with pot of gold chocolates we exchanged our presents. I purposefully wrapped Eric’s present in a big box to throw him off

Eric got me a Kobo E-Reader (which was #1 on my wish list!) and I got him tickets to a Canucks game in March! I bought these tickets way back in September during the Canucks Facebook pre-sale so I’ve been holding onto them for a long time. It was really hard keeping it a secret for that long.

We then spent the rest of the night hanging out on the couch and watching ‘Family Man’ while I played with my new e-reader (love it by the way!!) It was such a fun night and brought out some of the Christmas spirit I’ve been lacking lately.

After celebrating Christmas early with Eric on Thursday night I attended two Christmas parties this weekend which got me into the spirit even more! Only four sleeps now until I go home for the holiday and I can’t wait!!

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Question of the day: What did you do this weekend? Has anyone else partaken in an early Christmas celebration this year?