A Visser Christmas

As I'm sure all of you are aware, yesterday was my favorite day of the year! Christmas! Despite the fact that we were up at 5:30 on our way to urgent care, we had a wonderful first Christmas together. :) I wasn't feeling well starting on Monday morning and I didn't get any sleep that night. Of course, the place that is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, was closed. The only place to go was the Emergency room, which I didn't think was quite necessary. Luckily, my mother-in-law, JoAnn, works at a doctors office and always has drugs for me when I need them. Those pills may have been my best Christmas present, as they got me through the day until I could go to the doctor this morning.

Enough talk of sickness! When we got home we went back to sleep for a few hours, then got up to open presents! Bryan got a shirt, and a surprise from Santa! (He said several weeks ago that Santa doesn't go to people's houses who don't have kids, so I just had to prove him wrong!) He got a fog-free shower mirror that holds his razor so he can shave without damage to his perfect sideburns :) Bryan got me a present I've been wanting for a while. I'm getting my hair done! I've tried in vain to go back to being blonde, so I'm actually getting my hair professionally done. Pictures will be posted after the joyous occasion. After presents from each other and my parents were opened at our house, we went over to Bry's parents for Christmas breakfast. Keesh! Is that how you spell it? Anyway, it was indeed wonderful, and I think the closest you can get to the Mathias tradition of Spanish tortilla without actually having the tortilla. My brother Brian has continued the tradition of Spanish tortilla with his wife, and every year they make a bigger tortilla. This year's was most impressive!


This is our Christmas tree! We got the cheapest one we could find at Target, using our last wedding gift card! I don't think it turned out half bad!
My stocking (left) was made by my mom when I was quite young, and Bryan's (left) came from the wonderful Dollar Tree! The candy wrappers were his contribution to decorating :)
This is my first nativity set! I got it at Seagull Book where I work for only 6 dollars! I love it :)
Who can celebrate Christmas in Idaho without potatoes? My parents were kind enough to provide the spud (Darth Tater!) all the way from Minnesota, as well as many other fabulous gifts!

Bryan has a reputation at the annual Visser/Bodily Christmas Eve party for giving funny gifts. This is the one he gave last year (He autographed his senior picture and framed it!) and never suspected that it would be re-gifted this year. Of course, who should be the lucky winner of this priceless treasure but me! We had so much fun at that party.Here's Bryan taking his Christmas nap. The poor guy deserved some rest after getting up so early with me! Isn't he cute?

Anyway, we will eventually have pictures of us on Christmas, but they were all taken at Bry's parents on someone else's camera, so I'll have to track some pictures down. Merry Christmas to you all, and a happy new year!

p.s. Feel free to call/e-mail us anytime! We miss hearing from many of you!