Home for the Holidays

This year Justin and I were lucky. He didn't have to work on Christmas! A lot of my friends' husbands did have to work so I felt extremely lucky that I got to spend the day with Justin. We had a pretty good Christmas (last year was better because we were in California). But overall, it was a good day. On Christmas Eve, Justin came home from alert and we put a few ornaments on the tree and set out the presents. I got one good picture of everything. Here's our tree:

Shortly after I took that picture, I left the room and heard a crash. I came back to find this:

It took the kitties all of 5 minutes to try to climb the tree and subsequently knock it over. After that, I took down the ornaments and put the presents in the closet until we made the decision to open them after dinner. Even though they knocked our tree over, I love the kitties. They're just so cute.




On Christmas day, Justin and I went to the movies. We wanted to see Nine but it wasn't playing at our theatre. Then we were going to see Sherlock Holmes but it was sold out. So we ended up seeing Up in the Air with George Clooney. It was pretty good. I liked it. I'm not sure it was Justin's style of movie though. Then the day after Christmas, Justin had to go on alert again.

The weather has slightly improved since my rant about how much I hate snow. The temperature went up to almost 50 for a few days and melted all the snow. Then it got cold again and there was a thick layer of ice over everything, including the roads. Then it snowed again, right on top of the ice. But at least it's sunny here most days. Makes the weather a little more tolerable.

Hope everyone had a good holiday weekend!