A lovely Christmas.

Our Christmas holiday was a good one. We made it to my parents house by around 8pm, and soon after opened our delightful gifts. I surprised my family by bringing some "bundtinis" home, that I raved about in a previous post. I don't know who was more excited, me or them.

We stayed and relaxed a few days with the fam, and enjoyed many rounds of, "The Game of Things." Games in the Dudley home can get a little rowdy, that's all I can say about that.

The obvious gift that was given as shown in the picture, definitely won the 'most entertaining gift' award of the year. Several of the pictures that were taken with the 'staches are most definitely black mail worthy, and I've decided to be a nice sister/daughter/wife. For your viewing pleasure though, I will share a few 'not-so-bad' ones.

An Austrian...with a short mustache... enough said.

I hope you had a very Merry Christmas with loved ones.

The Eve

Today I was less than excited to go to work today, but was happy to be able to get off early. Tonight we have been packing and wrapping in order to get ready for tomorrow when we head home after Wolfgang gets off work! Our Christmas day will be less traditional as usual, but we are happy that we will arrive to our family not too horribly late tomorrow night. So far it has been kind of a weird and turbo speed holiday season, but I look forward to having a few days off and sharing it with those I love. Nevermind that our heater in our apartment decided to stop working, and now blows out cold air... I guess that just gives us something to do for when we come back. Things could be worse, we could be living somewhere actually really cold and this happen. Count your blessings, right?

Merry Christmas, my dear family and friends. May you all have a peaceful and wonderful holiday!

Slow down

I can't believe Christmas is only a few days away! I'm overwhelmed by how fast time is going by.

I'm already semi-depressed and even whiny that the Christmas holiday and season is 'almost coming to an end.' What else will I have to look forward to? I just wish I could press pause and take a breather.

Ok, enough with the emo kid attitude. I do have to say, that I'm very much enjoying my Christmas music stations on Pandora, and I listen to them even single moment that I am able to, throughout the day. I have very sparse and humble Christmas decorations, yet I love them and I'm enjoying them as well. In fact, I'll probably keep them up for too long.

So my friends and family, enjoy this season before it's goneeeee! {In just a few days!}

Butter.

Fellow friends and family,

Eat your butter with a glad heart, full of gratitude. In America, this would never go down...

those poor unfortunate souls of Norway.

enjoy.

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A little delayed.

Now that it is in the middle of December, I guess Phoenix finally decided for it to be the "fall" season. I noticed this beautiful tree as I was leaving church today. After that I noticed other trees here and there that had their leaves in beautiful colors, also. Of course there aren't very many of those trees around here, but it was beautiful nontheless.

Happy Sunday everyone.

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch.

A little something to show you what I've been up to at work lately:

{Can you see me??}



Yep, I got to play "dress up" with the General Manager of our hotel last week.

More details later; I was at work for 14 1/2 hours today, and I'm ready for bed. Happy Friday!

Dear Family,

Dear Extended Family,

I meant to add to the post about wrapping...

...I apologize in advance for the wrapping job on your presents this year. No, a 4 year old didn't wrap them,

I did.