Neighbor's Decorations

You remember my blog about Christmas lights? My neighbor is one of the people who cannot get it together. Here is a picture of his house.

In addition to these lights, he also has one of those huge nylon blow up snowmen in his backyard.

Some of these lights blink, some do not. Nothing is even. Too many colors. Ugh. I can't wait for him to undecorate.

Colorado Christmas

Brian and I celebrated "our" Christmas last weekend on Dec. 20. We woke up early, made coffee, opened presents and then made breakfast together. FUN! I got lots of good loot - some pearl earrings, a Wii Fit, a Colorado Avalanche T-shirt and an iPod dock for my desk at work. I gave Brian a sports coat, a gorillapod, some Rainbows, and some other small things.

Riley got some bones and a Tug-A-Jug.

Our tree on "our" Christmas morning.
Our stockings all stuffed with goodies.

Only one or two more Christmas posts and then I'm done for another year!

Christmas 2008

Christmas at home with the family was so great! Good to be home, good to see the family and friends! Santa was good to us and I think Brian enjoyed his first Christmas morning with us.

Us at 7am....looking quite scruffy, but excited for Santa's surprises.
The stockings were hung.....

My parents' tree - so tall and pretty and look at all those gifts!

Christmas Memories A La Stefania

I polled my very good friend Stefania (aka Steffi, ha ha) on what her very favorite Christmas memory is....she couldn't narrow it down to 1....so here are her 2.

"I think that the year I got my tongue pierced and my father found out and didn't speak to me through all of Christmas was great."

"Or when Domenico was messing around as a kid and broke one of my Mom's family Christmas statues and when she asked us all what happened Domenico could only come up with "...a big wind came through and it fell over."

Holiday Party Rogers Style

My hard work over the last 2 days definitely paid off. Had a great time at our little holiday party - Tacky Christmas sweaters and White Elephant gifts! I baked 5 different types of cookies and had appetizers galore. Lots of our friends came and two of Riley's dog-friends.

Austin got the "Gold Digga" pimp cup
Matt, Jeff, Carrie

The gals - Austin, Katie, Lisa, Sara, Sienna

Mike, Brian, Charlie, Erik, Katie, Sara

Congrats to Josh & Kristen!

Four and a half years ago, at a college-style cocktail party, my cousin Josh and my friend Kristen hit it off!!! Last night, Josh popped the question and now they're engaged!!! Congrats to Josh and Kristen! Can't wait for their wedding - all of my family and a bunch of our friends!

Congrats to Erin & Todd!!

One of my OLDEST friends, Erin got engaged on Wednesday night! Todd is AWESOME and we are so happy to welcome him into our friendship circle!!!! WOOHOO!!!! Congrats to them!