holy sh- its giftmas

so here it is giftmas morning (its 12 am so.. technically?) and i’m awake, unable to sleep, i have no idea why i am even excited, i already got my present!

ben got me a nikon coolpix to replace my old dying camera. its taking some getting used to but i am starting to understand the settings. its still a point and shoot, hopefully someday i can splurge and get a nice fancy camera and be like all the cool moms who take pretty pictures. until then i am armed with a nice point and shoot and lightroom.

of course vincent was my test subject for the new camera. i still have to figure some settings out to make sure i’m not blinding him or getting nothing but a boy shaped blur, but its pretty nice.

later that afternoon we went to ben’s half brother’s house for their holiday breakfast dinner. they had an amazing feast of food and then we played some silly games and had presents.

as usual i did not take nearly enough pictures of stuff because i was too busy living in the moment. i read an article the other day that said that a lot of us miss out on things because we are too busy trying to capture the moment on our electronic devices. well not this girl.. i am always the one with hardly any photos of my adventures. i guess in the end that’s a good thing. the photos i did get were of vincent’s cousin and vincent’s great.. something or another.. i have no idea what relation she would be, she’s ben’s half brother’s mother in law lol, anyway they are playing some weird game where people have to shove balloons into panty hose and the first to get the hose on their head wins a prize. it was really funny to watch and vincent just kept interrupting them to steal balloons out of the box.

we had gifts and i was really not expecting anything but i got a set of bowls, a little glass teddy bear, and some cookbooks. ben’s dad never knows what to get me but its the thought that counts. the bowls and cookbooks will come in handy!

vincent got a few books, a couple of beanie babies, a jacket that is way too big for him but he can grow into it later, and the greatest gift of all: a huge family to run around with and have fun with.

tomorrow (or later today depending on when you are reading this) we are going to open presents when we wake up, get dressed and ready and go to a church (blah..) to subject vincent to more hugs and kisses from a bazillion family members and eat a bit more. then we’ll come home and i will be making my first ever ham! i am excited and scared! hopefully i can manage to take a few photos of that.

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