Tuesday night officially kicked off the holiday season in my little world. I celebrated Christmas with my Gan. We have been celebrating together for YEARS and it is truthfully one of the aspects of Christmas I look forward to most. I can’t really explain how much our friendship has come to mean to me – over the years it has gotten better and better – and now she’s just a treasure that I don’t want to ever live without. iloveyouGan!Anyway (moving on from the sappy) after work we grabbed Kenz and then the 3 of us headed off to Irvine where we enjoyed dinner @ Chipotle followed by PRESENT TIME.
Gan and I have kind of established the tradition of GOOD Christmas gifts – so every year the pressure gets a smidge more intense – but we’ve succeeded thus far…Gan got me a darling sweater, a picture of $50 Henry, a Lily Pulitzer mug, the Kelly Clarkson CD (including the song “My Life would Suck Without You” which I have wanted for like 2 years) the Swell Season Documentary: ONCE, awesome bangles from a dead lady’s house AND a LEGIT statement necklace from Anthro. LOVE. I gave her a navy blue “M” themed gift…an “M” print, “M” cards, a navy blue cardigan, a handmade navy & grey flower, and an elephant teapot (I have given her literally EVERY elephant mug that is sold in Orange County – so I had to move onto other TYPES of elephant paraphernalia!). LOVE. Kenz also did a FABULOUS job with gifts…she gave us each champagne truffles (you will NEVER hear me complain about champagne truffles. NEVER!)
and then I got an Ina Cookbook (I almost have the entire collection now!) and a giant “S” for the wall that holds photos/cards. It’s amazing! I’m in love with the letter theme! Gan got the new Penguin Classics for Children Cloth Covered Collection in Peter Pan and an AMAZING elephant mug. My love language is GIFTS – so I just LOVE giving, getting, watching people get, the WHOLE thing!After dinner and gifts, we went for a quick walk through Anthropologie and then tied our scarves a little bit tighter to be ready for our little ice-skating adventure…it was fun. and funny.
Gan made it about 4 laps and stayed REALLY close to the wall the entire time. Kenz got a little more adventurous as we stayed on the ice. The skating Nazi (who wore the provided, and recommended helment) gave us crap about having a camera on the ice – um – hello – don’t people ONLY go ice-skating for the pictures?? He thought he was cool. He was confused. He was working at an ice-rink – at a mall – wearing a helmet. HA! not ideal! About an hour later we wrapped up the evening with tasty macaroons. It was a LOVELY Christmas…and the PERFECT way to get into the spirit of this holiday. So thankful for great friends to celebrate with…life wouldn’t be nearly as fun without them!
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it was AMAZING as usual! we have the best Christmas celebrations!
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