New Year's Day 2009!

Today we woke up and wanted to go ice skating with our friends Erik and Maki. We went to the ice skating and rink, and they were CLOSED!!! So, no ice skating for us!

So, we went to Baskin Robbins and got some ice cream! Yum!

Then we came home and played with my new camera that Josh got me for Christmas.
We got some beginning of the year family photos!

New Year's Eve 2008!

My friend Ophelia(a.k.a. Standard) gave me an amazing Christmas gift, some king crabs from Hokkaido, Japan. Josh and I decided we were going to eat them for dinner on New Year's Eve, and they were delicious. Thanks Standard!

This year we did not go to any elaborate party or hang out with a bunch of friends, we stayed at home and had one of Josh's friends over and just made a little New Year's Eve 2008 tradition of our own.
It was nice, and I still drank a glass of wine, to bring in the New Year. Hoosier got tipsy off of his drink of choice too, Brandy. :) And Josh, well Josh, did want he does best, played PS3....but hey, who said New Year's Eve always has to be about partying because this year I spent it with my two favorite boys, Josh and Hoosier. :)

Happy New Year!

Christmas Day 2008

Christmas Day was one like any other, a day to spend with our family, Josh, Hoosier, and I. We woke up super early and started opening presents. We separated our gifts. This was Josh's pile. This was my pile, and although it looked bigger, Josh got a lot of gift cards and money so please don't be fooled. Hoosier got a lot of cool stuff, to include a tug o war toy and a squeak toy that looked like a bottle of Brandy(that I just HAD to buy him...or wait, Santa, just had to buy him).

For those who remember, we usually go snowboarding on Christmas day, well this year, I was not feeling well, so I did not go, but I convinced Josh to go, although he insisted on staying with us. He had a great time though, going to a new resort he had never been to. I decided to go get my hair highlighted (Japan does not celebrate Christmas the way we do, so they were open on this day), and boy did my hair not turn out the way I wanted....it had a orange tint as seen below. But no worries, I got it fixed a few days later, so it is all better now and you will see the new pics in later posts for New Years. So, even though our traditions changed, and my hair changed(but is fixed now), our Christmas was still great and I would not change these memories I continue to make for anything in the world. I hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Josh's brilliant Idea!

So, as I mentioned before, my parents always send Hoosier a card for every holiday and inside they put $1 bill. So, Josh decided it would be smart to get Hoosier a piggy bank to start putting his dollars in and when he had enough saved up, we would buy him something with it. So here is his piggy(a.k.a. "doggy") bank we got him. I say it's for his college fund! :)