Holidays with my hunny and his family

My hunny finally took me to the Cedar Street Inn for dinner after I've heard about it since before we were dating! We got a little dressed up before heading out :)


We met up with Chris and Danielle and then headed out to Providence, RI for dinner. We were doing to go ice skating but got there too late :( So we went to Dave and Buster's instead!


For Christmas, Bryan and I had been working on a book (using Blurb) for his dad with all his dad's pictures from the Algonquin trip the two took last summer. It turned out absolutely amazing with Bryan's writing and my page layout. This picture was taken right when is dad realized what it was when he opened it up. It was hands down, the most sentimental present I've ever worked on, and I was so happy I got to be there to see his dad open it and experience it!


This picture was taken when he was reading the dedication. You can't really see but there were a few tears ;)


Every page sparked great emotions from his dad, either bursts of laughter or just "oh wow" from feeling overwhelmed. He was so happy his pictures didn't go to waste, especially since he had been trying out different features on his camera and he was utilizing some different techniques (he had brought a really fancy camera, and his two interests in life are photography and nature). Him and B spent a few hours looking through page by page and reminiscing about the trip.


Bonnie was taking away Otis's toy that he absolutely destroyed in a matter of two hours. What a funny dog!


Otis got kind of bored after that I think, so he was just hanging out with us.


So I had a really blonde moment when I was cracking/eating nuts. B gave me this thing that he said was a tool for picking nuts out of their shells (it just looks like a long metal stick with a handle on it). I'd never used one before so I was chipping at a nut and not only did I accidentally stab myself, but I also stabbed a huge chunk of a Brazil nutshell into my finger and gave myself a really bad splinter. Bonnie, being a vet, had all the tools to conduct "surgery" on my finger and fish out the splinter.


Here they are a few hours later after going through the book! I love that cover - it is a picture of the two of them sitting around a fire at night.


We were packing the night before our flight back to Michigan, and we had so many gifts and random fragile things to pack, B and I just dumped everything out on the floor and used our piles of clothes as padding for presents. Then we had to separate toiletries and anything else that might have liquid or look like a weapon into bags that would be checked in. What a mess!