Thursday, December 17, 2009

Christma-versary...

Since our anniversary is on December 18th, it always seems to get smooshed together with holiday festivities. So every year since we've been married we celebrate Christma-versary, where we get to celebrate our wedding anniversary as well as our own little Christmas, since we're always somewhere other than home on Christmas. With a ward Christmas party on our actual anniversary and trying to get ready to go out of town, we celebrated a couple days early.

A little back story: we went on our honeymoon to Disney world. We absolutely LOVED it there and it was made even better by all the Christmas decorations that were everywhere. At the Disney/MGM park they had a whole little town decked out in all Christmas lights. Between that and the fake snow it was pretty magical, oh and a little bit of newlywed bliss mixed in there too! Well, we said then that we'd go back to Disneyworld every 5 years. Definitely easy to say then, but much more difficult in reality. We're shooting for 10 years now! To celebrate that same holiday magic, we went to Winterhaven. (for those of you not familiar with Tucson, it's a neighborhood that completely decks out with lights and decorations. You can walk through or take hay rides and they've been doing it for 45 years.) It was a lot of fun and the lights were so pretty. Preston loved it too and just pointed at all the flashing lights and even bobbed his head to some of the Christmas music. We got some hot chocolate afterwards which really topped off the night.

Here we are in front of a house that had a Disney theme. It seemed fitting! Oh and check out our sweatshirts... our fist day at Disneyworld it was freakishly freezing for Florida which we didn't plan for, so we ended up buying random Disney sweatshirts to stay warm. We just had to wear them last night!

This morning we had our own Christmas morning with our stocking and just a few small gifts for Preston. He was so fun to watch!



Already chatting it up on his new phone!

I just love this time of year! Merry Christmas everyone!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Happy Anniversary! What a good idea to do your own Christmas. I love the last shot of Preston on the phone :)

Maile said...

I'm so glad we didn't get Preston that phone toy for Christmas! We were looking at it and seriously considering it! :) Happy Christma-versary!

Aranne and Dan said...

Very fun... Love the traditions and the way of celebrating together...

Huke, Lollie, and Gracie! said...

What a fun anniversary! We went to something similar in Vegas.