Saturday, January 12, 2008

Welcoming the Christmas Season

December was a perfect ending to a fabulous year. Jason and I attended holiday parties, seasonal sings, and enjoyed time with our families. The first two weeks of the month, Angelique was here from CA. Noelle joined us so we could all be together for "Christmas" just not on the 25th. There was also the annual Nicolai family Christmas party.

On our way to Wondee Siam 2--best Thai in NYC. Angelique spent a weekend with us...we shopped, relaxed, socialized, and ate. We don't even have to ask, whenever she's in town we dine at WDS2.

Picking out the Christmas tree. After a briefer than usual debate (because only one of the two major debaters, Noelle and Frank, were there) we found a truly perfect tree.

But it wasn't all perfect. Under Jason and Angelique's watchful eyes, Noelle and I rolled down the windows for the tree to be secured onto the car. Nothing seemed odd until we went to leave and realized we had tied all the doors shut. After we stopped laughing, Jason had to climb in and out.

Nicolais Christmas. A wonderful morning of gift giving and getting. Jason and I both got new coats (you may have noticed I got to wear mine early). And we almost have enough of our china place settings. Mom got dad the biggest flat screen i've seen...now it's the 60'focal point in our family room.

Ear Candling is one of our holiday traditions. You wouldn't believe how clear and light your head feels afterwards.

3 comments:

Sunny said...

Will you teach me how to ear candle? I am serious. Looks like you had some wonderful times. Happy new year.

Beth, Cody, Morgan, Pepper, Hazel said...

Love the coat and the car story. I'm also curious about ear candeling? Good times.

familia Bybaran said...

Ear candling sounds like fun. I want to learn too. Your family is beautiful. It looks like you had a great time.