Post-Christmas update

Our first Christmas together was a success!!

We spent Christmas eve at my house. Jesse got his first pair of "Donaldson Christmas Eve pjs" and got his first taste of the Christmas eve story reading. We exchanged our usual Christmas eve gifts which are our family "game" presents, presents from siblings-to-siblings (which Jesse was included in thanks to Clayton deciding on his OWN to buy Jesse a Christmas gift) and cards we got.

Cards were extra special this year. We put them on the tree when they come in the mail and when we got back from UT Jesse noticed that there were 4 cards from Grandma this year. Upon further investigation, we discovered that Grandma had included Jesse this year! We talked to Grandma Christmas day and told her how much it meant to us that she included Jesse and she said "What thoughtful? Y'all are getting married and so he is my grandson now." Such a sweet gesture to make our first Christmas together and engaged even better :)

SO we woke up early and Jesse and I lost to Clay in the pickle present game, sad day. Then we all opened gifts. I was so excited to see Jesse's face when he opened his TV! Everybody got some pretty awesome gifts. Jesse got me a new watch, a massive bottle of my favorite perfume, and the Sims 3 xbox game! I got Jesse a wallet, a pillow, COD Black Ops, a vacuum (not very fun), and the TV! Mom and Dad even got us a family Wii! Mom made chicken fried steak and we all had lunch.

A special gift from Mom and Dad to Jesse and Me was an ornament. I told mom I wanted to start collecting ornaments so that when Jesse and I have a tree we have something to put on it. We got our first one! It's a frog prince holding a big diamond ring :) So excited to start collecting more!

After lunch Jesse and I drove to Georgetown for Christmas afternoon/night with the Hanrahans. We ate Christmas dinner and opened gifts. Then Jesse let me play my new Xbox games :) (Yes I asked for Xbox games though the Xbox is really Jesse's... what's his is mine now though right?)

It was a very wonderful, special first Christmas together and we are looking forward to many many more!! We certainly felt like an engaged couple trying to make it to both family Christmases.

As for New Years, we don't have plans yet but we do sort of have resolutions. Jesse wants to make all A's again this semester. (Yes he made all A's this fall and we are so stinkin' proud of our little smartypants!) Mine is to set a wedding date by our one year engagement anniversary which is May 4 and to get a school plan in order whether it's PA school acceptance or applying and getting into a new different surg tech program.

Here's hoping we get the Donaldson-Hanrahan life ball rolling in 2011 !!

BEST CHRISTMAS YET!

Merry Christmas y'all !!

We are so excited for Christmas this year!

We have never spent a Christmas together in the almost 4 years we've been together. This year we are finally getting to spend it together :) It is the best Christmas present I could ever ask for!

I cannot wait until we are married and making our own Christmas traditions and spending every major holiday together.

I'll have to update with Christmas presents... let me just say, Jesse must have been a very good boy this year (I did get my ring didn't I) and he is going to be VERY pleasantly surprised at how much better his Fianceé is at shopping than his girlfriend was :)

Utah Trip

We went to Utah this past week to visit the Fuentes family :) We were there for about 6 days.

We finally got to meet our Lil' Booger (thanks for the nickname Uncle Jesse)! She is too cute for words and getting so big already! I think Jesse was in hog heaven when holding her. He couldn't walk by her without trying to entertain her or make her smile.



We also had fun getting to know Richard and Austin better. Plus we earned cool Aunt and Uncle points by getting Austin (our nephew) a Steelers hat and Boggle for Christmas.



It was incredibly beautiful there. The snowy mountains were gorgeous and surrounded their house. We went into SLC and saw the downtown area which was decorated with all kinds of Christmas lights.



Jesse and I played in the snow too! We made a snowman one day and entertained JackJack in the backyard because he couldn't get enough of the snow!