christmas "vacation"

So I've been noticing lately that what is supposed to be christmas vacation isn't quite so.  The vacation started off shopping and preparing for christmas.  I love giving gifts though so it is worth is to me.  Another part of christmas I like is the baking part.  One of the best days of break thus far was the day I had Brooks and Keri over to make christmas cookies.  We only had time to make the one kind of cookie but seeing my friends was amazing.  I am frusterated that even while I'm on break it is still so hard to see my friends and family.  I still have yet to make plans with Brita- she is here from fresno for only a few weeks and I've yet to call her.  This half of vacation is a million times better than the first week and a half.  Cale driving 12 hour days for UPS worked out to be very lonely though I do admire him for all the hard work.  After all he worked 12 hour days for a week and a half before christmas and I am the one complaining.  He never complained once.  My husband is an amazing provider and I thank God for him everyday.  I'm lucky to have him.  Life at Outback has been decent to me.  I really don't care for the job... not the people  I work with or the managers or anything I just hate dealing with the public and waiting on people.  On a more positive note, I begin training for head wait this week.  It's not anything too special it just means that on saturdays I will stay till around  12:30 or so and do a bunch of office work... it offers more hours and the potential to make more money.  I will get a bigger station than the rest of the wait staff and the hostesses will be told to keep my tables full.  I will also get a free meal of choice on the night that I head wait, which is pretty cool.  The last couple days have been pretty cool.  Today Cale, Cj, Keri and I had lunch and visited for a while which was nice.  Tommorrow for new years we are going to Cale's parents house to visit; we have not seen them since Thanksgiving so I am very eager to see them.  I miss them and I know Cale does too.  Then we will come home so that I can go to work.  I have no idea what I'm doing after work because I don't know what time I'll be off.  Cale and I picked out a bottle of champagne for new years but we gave in and opened it now.  It is nice to relax tonight and enjoy it because I know tomorrow won't be as relaxing.  I'm glad we opened it now.

thanksgiving

This thanksgiving was pretty cool.  Cale and I went to his parents house and hung out with Lee, Kendria, Emily and Eli all day.  We had a delicious lunch, played a lot of wii, Lee kicked everyone's butt at monopoly, and finally, we watched wall e which was really cute.  I missed a chunk of the middle cus I fell asleep.  

The food was so delicious... Kendria made turkey, green beans, potatoes yumm, and this really good raspberry jello salad thing.  Eli made a really delicious boston cream pie from scratch!

I was in charge of bringing a salad and I also made some cookies!!! I really like how the turkeys came out.  Cale did all the eyeballs! He's an amazing helper! These are the turkey cookies: