Christmas at the Slays'!

Well, Merry Christmas a day late! My wife and I had such a wonderful day together yesterday, and I would love to share a little about it!

Can I first just say how blessed we are? Erin and I are so grateful that we are healthy (well, mostly in Erin's case), able to live in a wonderful place, work for a wonderful company, and have loving friends and family. We are grateful that the Lord has blessed and given so much to such selfish and undeserving people. It baffles me sometimes, and I am also grateful that the Lord's greatness is well beyond my human comprehension.

With that being said, Erin and I were blessed enough to give and receive some wonderful gifts for Christmas this year. We spent Christmas morning at home with just the two of us. It was lovely. We woke up at around 7am. I have to admit, I was more the antsy one. I wanted to open gifts right away, and Erin was the one who was like, "hey, make some coffee first, we have all morning". And she was right.

Here are some of the awesome gifts that I received: Erin got a killer deal on a laptop, which I showed you in my last post. LOVE this thing. It's totally awesome. She also got me 3 great t-shirts! I was totally in need of new t-shirts, because my old cool ones all had holes in them. I got a Goonies shirt, a Star Wars shirt, and a Green Eggs and Ham shirt. She also got me seasons 6,7, and 8 of Seinfeld. A new wallet because I was in desperate need of a new one. I've had the same wallet since high school, and it was literally falling apart. She got me some Nautica cologne. It smells really nice. And I also got some really fun stocking stuffers, like a balloon helicopter, a yo-yo, some candy, some cofee, and a slinky!

Also....

I have killer in-laws!! My parents-in-law got me the drill and bit set. Funny story: I opened the bit set first not knowing any better... And I was like... oh... cool... that's a nice set. Not knowing that the actual drill got mixed in to Erin's presents. HAHA. Needless to say, I was super grateful because I've been wanting one for a while!! And my bro in law Brian, and his fiance June got me the beer kit!! I think I'm going to tear into that puppy next weekend. It's gonna be aweome.

 One of the funniest gifts is what my Mom, Em, and Robbie got us. Pictured to your right is "The Night Before Christmas". Not exactly the "funniest" book ever written. BUT, the cool thing about this version is the recorded commentary from my Mom, sis and step-dad. It's a book that you can record your voice for each page! And we always used to read this book Christmas Eve before bedtime. Well, a couple of years ago, Em and I were both at Mom's on Christmas Eve, and let's just say that Mommy got her money's worth that night. We desecrated this book with our "humorous observations" of said story. So, basically Mom, and Em tried to re-create that, and send it as a Christmas gift. I nearly threw up from laughter. :)

I got Erin a Kindle for Christmas! She loves it, and she's hardly stopped reading it since. I also got her a whole bunch of other things which I'm sure she'll tell you about on her blog.

Needless to say, it was a fun Christmas! I loved just hanging with my wife on Christmas day. It was nice and chill.



The end. :)