Our 1st Christmas!

As mentioned in previous posts, Collin and I celebrated our first married Christmas this year. Since we were heading to Denver on Christmas Eve, we had our own little Christmas on the 23rd. First, we went to the temple after work, which was the absolutely most perfect place to go to feel the intensity of our Savior's love. Then, Collin took me to "Elements" for dinner (SO delish...). We got home and got into some jammies for a few pics. I set the timer on the camera and this is what came out.

Then, we started opening up our stockings. Collin made me a beautiful bracelet (he's SO talented with all this Goldsmithing he's been doing). Most of it is silver, except the ring in the center and the toggle on the back are yellow gold. If you've seen his Wedding band(s), he has 4 separate rings... 3 are platinum and 1 is yellow gold. So, the bracelet he made is kinda matchymatchy with his rings. And I love it. It was totally a crier. So, here's the bracelet along with the other 2 rings he's made me. (I didn't realize that I'd never put up pictures of them.)

His stocking has some fancy running socks, micron pens and WiiMadden2010. His reaction? "Can we open the rest of the presents later, and play Madden for the rest of the night?" :) He was joking, but so cute nonetheless. We opened the rest of our gifts, switching off back and forth, watching each other. I was extremely impressed with Collin's choices of gifts. He did quite well; he never ceases to amaze me.

We both got each other Nike running shoes, which was a surprise (on my end). He had guessed that gift the day they came in the mail. I couldn't believe it, but I couldn't lie and say they were something else. He likes them though, so it all worked out.

Anyway, we had a great 1st Christmas together! After work on Christmas Eve, we flew to Denver to spend the holiday with my family! It was short but wonderful. More to come on that tomorrow.