Our Last Christmas Before We're Married!

So this Christmas was a busy one for us! Tim's parents came up from San Diego for their first Christmas up here in Seattle!

Tim's dad, Herb, came in on Wednesday night, the 19th and Tim's mom, Kitti, came in on Christmas Eve since she had to work (she's a florist).

Christmas morning the 4 of us got up early to open presents amongst ourselves. Santa sure was good to us this year!

Our Christmas Tree overflowing with presents!

Stockings hanging over the fireplace

Tim gave me some great gifts! He gave me a pair of Ugg boots! YAY! And he also gave me a heart necklace from Tiffany's and diamond studded earrings!!! I also got a hair dryer that straightens and the newest Harry Potter movie, Tim gives me one each year! He also gave me a gift card to Victoria's Secret so that I can buy some clothes online. (He's afraid to buy clothes for me haha!)
I got a bunch of different cookie cutters from Tim's parents too.

I gave Tim some really nice North Face black snow/hiking boots, a silver iPod Nano (the 2nd generation one), a pair of Lucky Brand jeans and a ton of other little things. (I tend to go a bit overboard at Christmas time!)

After we had our presents, we headed up to my parents cabin at Snoqualmie Pass at Alpental. It was a full house up there with lots of snow!

This was everyone up there: Tim, myself, Tim' parents - Herb & Kitti, my parents - Brad & Dana, my siblings - Dani, Brandon & Tori, my aunt (my dad's sister) - Deborah, my sister Dani's boyfriend - Tyler, my sister Dani's friend - Nadine and of course my parents' dog Calvin.

We opened presents from each other and from Santa. Santa was especially good to us up here too! I got a rolling case full of scrapbooking tools and supplies, a digital photo frame that is huge and a bunch of new clothes for work. Tim got a new sleeping bag made for cold weather for when he goes camping and he got a tent that attaches to the back of his jeep.

The best part was when Tim opened his present from my brother and my brother opened his present from us. We kind of played a little trick on my brother with his present. We got a big box and filled it with a bunch of newspaper and put a bottle of Bacon Salt in there. We did this because the present we really got him was so hyped up by everyone for over a month before that we wanted to see what his reaction would be to something so small and mediocre.

Here's a picture of my brother opening the Bacon Salt.

The real present we gave my brother was a signed football by the 2006 Seattle Seahawks team. He was really surprised!

Here are the pictures of Tim opening his present from Brandon.

A HUGE Red Bull drink cooler! HAHA!

After presents we had a great omlette breakfast made by my parents.

My parents cooking the omlettes.

Clockwise from left: Nadine, Tyler, Kitti, Herb, Tim and me eating breakfast.

Tori and Brandon at breakfast.

Tori and me at breakfast.

Tim and me at breakfast.

After breakfast my Uncle Marc (my dad's oldest brother) and his daughter, my cousin, Jennifer, came up to the cabin. They were planning on staying for dinner but it started to snow and everyone headed down the mountain except my parents, my sister Tori, my brother Brandon and my Aunt Deb.

A picture of the Bean girl cousins!
Tori, me, Dani and Jen

On our way down the mountain it snowed pretty much the whole way home! Snow on Christmas!!!! How exciting that was for us! Especially for Tim's parents who had never had a white Christmas before!

We got home an rested for awhile before we headed over to Tim's sister's house for Christmas dinner. Tim's sister, Renee, lives 4 houses behind us!

Renee's boyfriend, Dirk had his mom, Linda, stepdad, Gary and brothers, Rhys and Ian over. Linda, Gary and Ian live in Australia and Rhys lives in England. Talk about an international family!

We had a nice turkey dinner with them and then opened even more presents! (Sorry I didn't get any pictures during this part of our day)

I had made stockings for all of them and had put in those metal puzzles in each one where you try to separate pieces. Well they turned out to be the hit of the night! We spent the rest of the evening trying to figure out those funny little puzzles!

All in all it was a VERY busy and full day but it was great! What a happy Christmas for us!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas day as well!

Love, Michaela