Christmas Break = Coming to a Close

Gosh, I did a LOT this Christmas break and enjoyed every minute of it!

First, I went to Victoria with my LOVELY boyfriend and had a wonderful time doing tons of stuff. We spent time with his family and had an awesome Christmas breakfast with some super delicious food (like french toast casserole, who knew?!). I helped work on a tractor, take stuff to a scrap yard, and put out salt at the car washes (yes, I am a haas, I know!). Then, rode in a really fast truck, made Christmas cookies with some awesome people, shot skeet, killed an animal (my first), and shot a pistol. PHEW! I'm getting tired just thinking about it all! We definitely got Starbucks a few times and had plenty of good food to keep us going! My favorite part of the trip was our trip to Houston to see the Nutcracker :) such a great gift from the boy! He picked out some really amazing seats, I was highly impressed, and we ate at Saltgrass (I LOVE). To top it off he got me a beautiful charm for my bracelet, man he is amazing! To top off all of these things we drove really fast down the biggest hill I've seen, rode around in his best friend's jeep (very bumpy and hilarious), and saw some really awesome Christmas lights! This trip ended far too quickly and I was on my way home to celebrate with my family!

So, I ended up in good ol' East Texas with some of my favorites and had a great Christmas! Celebrated with my grandma and my dad's side of the family (eeeep, Santa was there too!). Had a great finger food/Christmas Eve present opening with my immediate family, and then a relaxing Christmas Day! Then it was off to Dallas for a conference we like to call SALT! Gosh, a lot of good, Godly, biblical, amazingness was poured into my head...more posts to come with this info later! That went through New Years Eve and we celebrated by 'whipping our hair back and forth' and enjoying the company of hundreds of God focused college students! Then, off to home again after a pit stop at my apartment!

Once at home my break slowed down with LOTS of sleep, plenty of family time, and catching up on my favorite shows. I unfortunately was home by myself because my granny was in the hospital, but she is home now and doing better! (She had a crazy bout of hallucinations at the hospital, fairly funny, but not normal at all!) I also shot a muzzle loader for the first time!! Then, I came back to my apartment at school for a few days to clean and such, but I am leaving today to finish the last leg of my break. I'm going home again (with Norman this time!) to spend time with my family before school starts. We are going to have a big get together Saturday with the aunts, uncles, and cousins, a lot of resting, and hopefully some warm weather activities outside. I am completely blessed and in awe of all the stuff that I got to do this break and I loved it all! OH! I forgot to mention my other awesome presents for Christmas! (Thanks mom and dad!!)

I hope your Christmas (break or not) was just as amazing as mine was and I can't wait to share some other stuff in more detail later!

Signing out!
Amy Elizabeth