oh christmas tree

"...how lovely are your branches"

and everything underneath :)

This Christmas was very good to me this year.  Well besides the horrible cold that came to me two days before.  No bueno.

Christmas Eve started out very good.  I got to sleep in, which always makes for a happy Caitlyn.  In the afternoon we went over to my aunt's house on my mom's side of the family.  We ate yummy sandwiches and enjoyed each other's company.  We always do an ornament exchange (white elephant style) every year and this year was no different.  Although, there wasn't too much stealing going on.  We were nice this year.  I ended up with a gold snowflake ornament with red and purple jewels.  Very cute.  I had to leave early to get home to get ready for work at 4.  Before work I made myself a nice blend of green and black tea with a little milk to take to work (in my cute silver sparkly Starbucks mug that my boy got me a few weeks back as an early Christmas present) to sooth my throat a little.

Well it didn't work (neither did the Zycam, btw) my cold kept getting worse as the day went on.  And at work it was even worse.  We were BUSY.  I hate being sick and handling someone's food.  I washed my hands 10x more than usual that shift.  The worst part was when I was at one of my tables taking their order and I had a horrible coughing fit.  I couldn't stop/couldn't breathe/couldn't talk and I looked like I was about to die (or at least I felt like it).  Gah, so embarrassing.  Some of the people at the table were pretty nice about it though.  Thankfully one of my managers saved the day with a wonderful cough drop.

That night when I get off I came home and filled my parents' and Thomas' stockings.  I hate taking cold medicine especially the stuff that makes you drowsy because, well, it REALLY works on me.  Children's Dymatap takes about 10.2 seconds to knock me out.  I ended up taking the recommended dose of Tylonal Cold Nightime (2 pills).  Bye, bye Caitlyn see you next Thursday (quick! name that movie!).

Christmas morning my mom woke me up at 9:30.  My brother was getting to anxious to open presents.  I am a little grumpy when I wake up in the morning but since I was drowsy--no grumpy I guess haha.  Santa did good and brought me lots of wonderful things.

My stocking was filled with yummy chocolate, peppermint bark and Sephora goodies!  There was also a really cute necklace.

I also got the new Blackberry Storm aka the love of my life (not really, but it's really cool!) along with I Love Lucy DVDs!, Forever 21 shirts, a cute jacket, a scarf and some pjs.  My mom also got the family The Office DVD board game (which we played tonight).  It's really fun and we can't wait for Steph and Cale to come down and play with us!

After we opened presents we had a wonderful breakfast of bacon eggs and pancakes.  I had to beg my dad not to put anything weird in my pancakes.  He likes to make new concoctions with his breakfast foods.  Some good, others not so much.  Half of the pancakes he made plain (whew).  The other half was doomed.  Chocolate chips and Christmas colored sprinkles that my mom had left over from baking.  They didn't look so good haha.  Since I was still sick I had to skip out on the rest of the family activities for the day.  I rested up nicely and am feeling better today.

I hope everyone had a wonderful family filled, wishes fulfilled Christmas!

p.s.  Didn't know the movie?  Well here you go.