Staying Busy

It was a wonderful holiday! Here I am finishing up the first day back at work after Christmas and can't stop thinking about all I have to do! I need to get everything in order for the next year at the office, which I'm planning on devoting some extra hours to it since Alaina is staying with her grandparents for the rest of the week. but noone wants to hear about work. They want to hear about Christmas! Alaina made out like a bandit! She got a huge kitchen from Nana and Papa. Uncle Scott got her a neat book and two, yes two, sleds! Aunt Stacey spoiled her by giving her a ride in one in the middle of the living room! Aunt Stacey also got her a big bag of jewelry to play with! Add in a small farm play set and several other items that I'm having trouble remembering and she's set for quite a while! Lots of clothes and other cool items, etc.
And the best item that I received this year is something so silly everyone will laugh at me. Mom and I just finished wrapping the last of the gifts and started moving them to the living room when I saw a gift package with a box in it that said "Alton Brown" now if anyone you are big food network fans you know who he is. For those of you that don't, he hosts a couple of really cool shows! I of course start squealing, "Is That Mine? Is That For ME?" Mom tells me I shouldn't be peaking, but it was wrapped in a clear wrapper, so I think I'm okay. When we hand out the gifts, I get the package so its the first thing that I open when its my turn and I start sqealing again. Because of course I got the salt cellar that I've been hoping for! Rachel Ray and Alton Brown have awesome 'salt cellars' which are basically flip top salt holders so you can grab a pinch of salt without having to pour it out first. you just flip the top and grab what you need! I've been looking for one jsut like theirs and my sister in law and brother found it! I can't believe they found the exact one I wanted! Yay!
So of course later when we are going around the table saying what we are thankful for, I pipe in "my salt cellar!" While everyone else is saying the equivalent of "world peace."
Jeff and I also ended up getting all the pieces to Guitar Hero 1,2 and 3! Awesome! Hope everyone had a great holiday too!