Christmas

Christmas was celebrated a little different this year.  I had to work Christmas Eve and Christmas Day this year so we had to change it around a bit.  Christmas Eve is usually the day that Matt's family celebrates Christmas so we had to move that to the Saturday before.  It still felt like Christmas!  We had been in Ohio that day/night before for my Grandmother's service so we got to my mother-in-law's house around 11 am.  We snacked and then started with the gift opening.  All of us kids were really excited because we had a big surprise gift for Janet that we were going to wait until the end to show her.  Next year we will have another Dunn at Christmas! No no not us :) My sister-in-law, Brenda, is due with another baby in July!

The crew

Firetruck blanket I made him!

And now for the surprise...

YAY! A new TV for Janet :) She was so shocked and loved it.  We were all so happy to be able to get her something like that. She goes all out for us for Christmas, so we wanted to go all out for her.

The next day (Sunday), we headed over to my mom's house.  Matt and I, my mom, brother, and niece and nephew all had our Christmas with each other before the rest of the family came over.  Mom had a turkey and potato soup and everyone brought a little something for us to eat.  It was great to have everyone together.  Later, we had a Yankee Swap gift exchange which is always hilarious.  

Playing the Xbox Kinect

Jax's new toy that he had torn apart in 45 seconds

Love them

Trying out the new Skip-It

Tre' kept bugging me to put his hat on so he could take a picture. I finally gave in.

Jax was worn out!

Yankee Swap

I got the biggest surprise on Christmas Day.  It was 7:45 am-I was TL at work and was in the middle of checking the defibrillator when the unit secretary came up to say I had a visitor.  I immediately thought it might be Matt, but when I looked to see what time it was I knew he wouldn't be up yet on Christmas Day.  To my complete surprise, my friend Tiffany was at the window! I let her in to the unit and she was holding two sacks from Hardee's.  "I brought breakfast for you and 19 of your closest friends, I knew you had to work on Christmas Day."  I can honestly say I think that was the most thoughtful and most unexpected thing anyone has ever done for me.  I started tearing up a bit! Tiffany is the sweetest person I have ever met and the fact that she thought of me to bring us in breakfast was just amazing.  I walked around the unit to let the other nurses know there was breakfast up front and the story about how she brought them, and a couple started tearing up and gave me a hug!  We really appreciated it and it made working Christmas Day that much better :)

breakfast sandwiches!

blizzard 2012 :)

I am a little bit behind on posting pictures.  I decided to go from most recent to least so we shall start with our first big snow of the year! 

The news loves a good headline so they had a hay-day with the snow.  Blizzard 2012!

 I was at work on Christmas Day and everyone was freaking about the big snow storm we were going to get.  The management staff were offering for us to all stay overnight at the hospital if we worked the next day since it would probably be hard for us to get back there the next morning.  The day started with us expecting to get 3-5 inches and ended with us expecting to get 8-12 inches.  They predicted right because Indianapolis got around 8 inches when all was said and done!

I had Wednesday off and the only thing on my plan for the day was to teach BodyPump at 9:30 am.  We got a text from Laura saying that Kiwi was cancelling all classes for the day because the building we have them in was closing too.  So that left me with a wide open day. Then the best thing ever happened. Matt got a call right after saying that they were closing for the day and that he didn't need to come in.  YEAH! Snow day with my husband! This was the best news ever, especially since I had just worked Christmas Eve and Christmas Day while he was off work and then had to work the next weekend too.

We had a great, relaxing snow day.  It's kind of fun when you get so much snow/the driving conditions aren't the greatest where they urge you to not leave your house.  What did we do? We ventured out to take the Murano for a spin to see how she'd do in the snow :).  Well first we slept in as late as we possibly could and then layed in bed watching TV until noon.  The roads weren't horrible, but we wouldn't have been able to make it out of the driveway if we were driving Matt's car.  I love the Murano! We drove to Costco which is only really 3 miles or so from our house if you take the back roads.  I had never seen Costco so empty!  We grabbed some food since I had not had a chance to get any groceries before the storm hit and walked around for a little bit.  We made it home and didn't leave the house at all the rest of the day.

Matt made a really yummy shrimp lunch and we opened up a bottle of wine.  We peer-pressured our friends to come over and be lazy with us.  The rest of the day was popcorn, wine, a movie, and euchre. It was lovely!  Having that day off with Matt made me not even mind working the holiday.

Mom, quit taking pictures! I'm cold!!

Attempting to make him like snow.  Throwing him in was probably not the best idea...

On their way walking out, Matt decided to tackle Rob into the snow.  Boys!