Christmas is Done.

Christmas breezed by and my sister only bit me once!

How old is my sister, you ask? Eighteen. Yep. I smacked her in the face.

In other news, the fiance and I made off like bandits with wedding registry everyday china and new clothes galore! We also received some awesome-possum chaise lounge camper chairs from my folks that we immediately put to use as recliners in our cramped apartment haha

In sadder news-my beloved plant, Idunn, is dying.

It's hard to see in the picture but horribly obvious when you see her in person-the whole bottom half is darkened with rot and leaves and stems have been falling off right and left. I think I over-watered her or she caught some kind of disease. Either way it sucks.

I really liked this plant and would try the same species again if I could figure out how to keep it alive! Our others plants are doing too well either-we might end up having a spring replanting ;o)

In happier news, I was able to finish the fiance's stocking before Christmas. If you can believe it-all of that is stitched by hand. GAG! Leave it to him to pick the most complex cross stitch project I'd ever seen!

It did turn out beautifully and we were very relieved to be done with this project :o)

Christmas was wonderful this year. I had a marvelous time playing games with the fam and we were able to bring our kitties down to my parents so we got to have our little family all together as well.

We played lots of games but we really enjoyed this new game:

This picture shows the UK version, but the US version has more familiar brands and is really fun. It does get a little competitive but is fun and relatively speedy for a board game.

We also enjoyed this wooden game, TUMBA!

Think Jenga but with more strategy-and you start from the bottom up and build unique structures each time.

Anywho-Christmas was wonderful, games were fun, and we ate entirely too much ham and sugar!