Ho oray for December!

I love Christmas. I'm so excited that it's next weekend. I'm a gift giver....I love to pick out presents for my family and figure out what would be perfect for them. I love to see their faces! :) Tonight, I went to find boxes and tissue paper. Hooray for Dollar Tree! Cheap! :) I did not buy any wrapping paper, which was a very hard thing. I absolutely love to buy paper. I always buy from fund raisers and then find lots of good cheap paper the days after Christmas. It's a fabulous addiction. I also love to wrap presents...which I was supposed to do this week. Sadly, this didn't happen. It didn't happen last week either. They are just sitting in piles in the spare room. Sad!

I had such a fun time in Austin. We went shopping, laid around with the puppies, saw a movie, and just had a great time. On Wednesday night, we took the puppies to Zilker Park for the Austin "Trail of Lights". The entire park is filled with displays sponsored by various local companies. They had Snoopy, Disney, manger scenes, and the most scary...."Greek Christmas", filled with statues of greek gods and other random things. Bizarre. The puppies walked a long way, and were so tired when we got home. People kept saying "Oh look at the puppies in their sweaters! How cute!" As if we would take three tiny pups out without protection from the cold. They were stunning. Oliver looked a little girly in his teal green sweater...I hadn't found one that was manly yet. I have since remedied the situation and he's walking around the house in a navy blue sweater with a yellow stripe. He's fancy.

Last night, Becca and I drove up to Denton for a Point of Grace concert. It took us a ridiculously long time, seeing as I 35 is always nutty. Once we got there, we staked out our seats and waited for the glories to begin. The first half was fabulous. Intermission was short..thankfully. Then the madness started. Apparently, this church's idea of a Point of Grace concert was to have the girls go away for awhile and have their "Celebration Choir" do a mini concert for FORTY minutes. Then, POG came back, and sang all the meaningful songs with the choir. I was hacked. I did not drive all that way for a concert with their choir. They sang most of the good songs (the ones I was looking forward to) with the choir...so it almost ruined it. I was so sad afterwards. Point of Grace is always good, but I didn't like the fact that this church had us listen to their choir for so long. I was thinking that maybe this was their Christmas cantata...but that's happening on Sunday. There was no excuse for that madness. Thankfully, the trip back was quick and we actually didn't get in too terribly late.

ANYWAYS. That's what has been going on around here lately. I have to work the next two days..then Wednesday, then Christmas Eve. Party! :) Hope you are staying warm! I will post pics of the concerts when I find my connecty cable thing. :)