[SweetCuteness]

We don't really do anything terribly exciting over the holidays either. Although, I must admit it's really nice that my boyfriend is Jewish because we'll never have to argue over where we're spending Christmas! We're flying back to Oregon for 8 days for Christmas this year. Every year, we spend Christmas Eve with my mom's side of the family. We play the white elephant game where you pick a number, then pick a gift or steal a gift. The last few years we've made the same such that we have to make our own gift. Last year we decided we would have a themed gift that we had to make.... this year the theme is a plunger. LOL. You can make anything you want, but it has to use a plunger. Should be interesting. Then we eat and open real gifts. Then we'll get up bright and early Christmas morning and go to my dad's... spend the whole day just hanging out with the fam, eating, drinking, and being merry! Then we're going to go snowmobiling. Pretty uneventful... but this will be the longest I've ever been away from my family - 5 months. I'm so excited already!