Tuesday Update

Last weekend, we went to our first Christmas party at Trent's Grandma's. It was such a great day. Not only was the weather freakishly nice, it was just a fun day with great food and great people. My favorite part of the day was when the kids wanted to go outside, but they had to go out with an adult, so the second time they wanted to go outside, I was the adult that was asked to go with them. (I had to ask the other adults to be sure if I was considered an adult first, though :)) When I told my niece, Taylor, that I would go out with them and went out of the room to get my coat on and things, I heard her tell her mom, "I love Aunt Kendra". That made me smile from ear to ear. I love making her happy and I love being called Aunt Kendra. I'm still getting used to that!

A new doll for Taylor

A new 'laptop' for Jenna

In the late afternoon, we made our way home and just relaxed for the evening. Sunday, I went out and finished up our Christmas shopping and we cleaned up the apartment. In the evening I wrapped up all of the presents and got them ready to go with us to our parents' this weekend. I stayed up WAY too late on Sunday night. I just couldn't get myself to stop finding more things to do to keep myself up. I ended up staying up until about 1:20 in the morning, which made 5:15 even earlier than normal to get out of bed and made Monday a very long day! I'm glad that I did get up to get some studying in, though, because I feel like I haven't been going at it like I should be. I have been doing pretty good on the practice tests I've been doing, though, so hopefully that's a good sign at least!

Monday night, we brought Mattie to get her nails clipped at Petsmart and did a little Christmas shopping for her and Trent's parents' dog, Casey. We found a really cute present for them both that I can't wait to give to them! We also got Mattie a new red collar and when she was done with her nails, they put a pretty Christmas bow on her and sprayed her with cookie dough perfume (weird, I know - but it actually smelt nice). She looked great when she was all done!

In her new collar and bow.
She's not liking that we're making her stay in the room by us in this picture :)

 After we got back from the store, we got our Christmas cards ready to be mailed and then I practiced a presentation that I had to do at work today on Trent. I was SO nervous about my presentation that I had to do. It was the first time that I had to do anything like this at work and wanted to do a good job. It was just in front of about 10 of my co workers but I still wanted them to respect me and think that I knew what I was talking about, so I wanted it to go well. I did it this afternoon, and I think it went pretty well. It's not like any of them are going to tell me I did a bad job, though... I'm just glad that it's over. I feel like I can finally get some other work done because I don't have to worry about thinking about the presentation anymore. Also, only FOUR more work days to go in 2011! How crazy is that!! YAY for holidays and vacation!

I hope you are all soaking in the excitement of the holidays and are all ready for Christmas! I just can't wait to spend some time with family and relax for a few days! Only 4 more sleeps until Christmas!!