Christmas!!

Our first Christmas together was quiet but great! We woke up and opened presents... actually, I had to wake up Mikel because he doesn't quite understand the urgency of opening presents on Christmas morning. We both got great presents from each other and our parents-- we got clothes, a great new camera, a fun game, and lots of DVDs to watch!

After that, we went over to Brett and Megan's house for a great dinner. We are lucky to have friends in the area that don't mind letting us crash on their holidays!
We got to see the cool presents their kids got from Santa, have a great dinner and spend good time with friends. After that, Brett and Megan took their kids to a movie and we went home to play with our presents and take pictures with our new camera. We didn't have much to take pictures of (it was too cold to go outside) so we just took pictures of ourselves.
We missed our family and friends but finally got to spend a Christmas together! It was my first white Christmas and it was wonderful.

Since then we've had lots of time to relax and hang out together which has been great. Mikel has been working and I've been... relaxing!

It's a bad sign when you cannot tell if it's currently snowing because the wind is blowing so hard that there is a ton of snow in the air already?? My answer- yes, it's terrible.
Not much exciting is going on around here. We're bummed we missed the Griffiths family Christmas party but we're relaxing and enjoying some lazy time together and preparing for our own Christmas-- our first together!
Hopefully the wind will stop blowing. It would be a lost cause to hope for the snow to stop so I'll focus on the wind!

Christmas tree and snow storm!!

We got a Christmas tree!! It's fake and small but we (ok I) was really really excited! Mikel was excited but not nearly as excited as me!
East Lansing was also hit with a storm. We got about 6 inches of snow at least!

Today is one of those days we are thankful we live in an apartment complex... we don't have to shovel and our parking lot is plowed. It's nice to be able to sit inside while other people do the work outside!!

The only other exciting news for the day is that we filled up our gas tank with $1.59 gas! Other than that, we are just sitting inside in our heated apartment and relaxing. We just started watching 24 the TV show... bad idea, now Mikel is addicted!! We love Christmas break!

men's basketball game

We were lucky enough to have the chance to go to a men's basketball game! They were playing Alcorn State and my advisor had extra tickets and offered them to us! Mikel had to come straight from work but it was definitely worth it.

It's an impressive atmosphere! The Breslin Center holds 15,500 people and there were probably 14,000 in the stands. That's more than Holt Arena even holds. MSU won 118-60 so it wasn't really a nail biter but it was a lot of fun!

finals are done!!

For better or worse, I'm done for the semester! I took my last test this morning... who starts tests at 7:30 when it's only 20 degrees outside?! I think it went well so now I'm just waiting for grades to be posted.
Now, all I have to do is wait and collect finals from my students and then grade those and I'll be all done! It's time for sleeping, relaxing, scrapbooking, and even reading for fun! Of course there will be some planning for next semester but that's not too bad. I'm going to be enjoying some down time for awhile which will be nice for the both Mikel and me!!