I've not been online much the last few days, because I was celebrating Christmas.
Here are the highlights:
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A few days before Christmas a huge package arrived!
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It was from miki.
She sent us both lots of stuff for Christmas and for our birthday next month.
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I used my piggy penlight to explore the depths of the huge box.
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There was a box filled with presents for me and my owner and a box for my owner's OtherHalf.
This is the Christmas presents box for me and my owner.
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There was also lots of candy and chocolate!
Yum.
We weren't allowed to open our presents until after midnight on Christmas Eve!
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Luckily I got some fireworks from my owner's OtherHalf as well. I dreamed of how cool those will be to light on New Year's Eve, to take my mind of the presents.
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Finally Christmas Eve arrived and we could open our presents.
There were a lot of them. Not only miki sent us presents. There was also a picnic basket full of yummy food from family, a small present from Beanie, and a couple of presents that Santa put under our tree.
It was fun opening them all.
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And look at all those gorgeous presents!
Books, magazines, dinos, cross stitch stuff, cards, and lots more.
miki: Thank you for all those awesome presents!
Beanie: Those cards are really cool. Thank you!
G&J: Thanks for all the yummy food!
We spent Christmas day reading books and magazines, enjoying all our presents, and eating lots of yummy food.
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The day after Christmas is also a holiday here.
We relaxed some more, and my owner baked a Bundt cake.
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Which I of course had to taste.
It was delicious!
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We also decided to make our own Christmas centerpiece.
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I think it turned out beautiful.
All in all we had a wonderful Christmas.
I hope you all had a great Christmas as well!