Archive for December 20th, 2004

admin December 20th, 2004

What a fun weekend! Friday night Jared and I snuggled up and watched “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” I love that movie! Saturday we got up and packed for the rest of the weekend. We headed to Champaign for Eric Bogle’s wedding. (Eric was in a band with Jared for several years….good ol’ 20th Ave.) Anywho…the wedding was beautiful. I find myself getting even more sappy at weddings now that I’m married. It makes me think of our wedding day. :-) Yay for being married to my best friend! Anyway, the reception was a blast too. We sat with the Shandley’s and got to see Jamie too. Lots of fun dancing and acting quite silly. We headed to Bloomington after that, and stayed at Steven and Norma’s house. We were up early for church, where we saw my parents. I love Vale…I can’t wait to move back to Bloomington so we can go to church there again. It’s so great to go back and see so many people and get tons of hugs. After church it was time for Tolan Christmas at Uncle Bob’s and Aunt Melinda’s. Their house is amazing! Seriously, one of the co0lest houses I’ve ever been in. It was so good to see Jared’s family again. Every year I feel more and more welcomed. I’m not even shy when I’m there anymore. Dinner was yummy and the presents were fun. Each family (or person) brings a Christmas decoration of some sort and then we draw numbers for them. This year as we picked out our presents, we were allowed to steal them from other people. It was a lot of fun…even though I lost the cool snowman I picked out. We ended up with some cute ornaments and a really neat angel. We also got some bite-size candy bars with our pictures from last Christmas on the wrappers. Tom and Joyce are super creative with the camera. (The take our picture with some sort of silly hat on every year…this years will take the cake I think.) Anyway…we finally made it back to Greenville around midnight…crawled into bed…and somehow awoke this morning. Now…back to work I must go. Bye!