Merry December!

Ok, Jordan married into a pretty tricky situation when it comes to ... December. Fist off, our anniversary is the 17th - and this will be our first anniversary, so expectations are high. We planned a trip to Lincoln just to get away from the busyness of life and have some time to ourselves. Well, we went to Lincoln and Jordan decided he would like to visit a couple dealerships to check out the new trucks. Being a wonderful wife, I said "Sure. Cool" Oops. After spending 4 hours among 3 dealerships, driving some sweet test drives that were waaaaay out of any price range we rapidly discussed in the parking lot, and haggling with 2 poor poor salesmen.... we left with nothing. And Jordan had severly cut into my "normal lunchtime" and it ended up being 3:30 before we got any lunch. Poor guy had to deal with a grumpy wife. Poor me had do deal with a slightly ridiculous husband. But Red Robin cures all ails. :) And the rest of our Lincoln trip went smoothly, and we had a lot of fun! Secondly, my birthday is the 22nd. And I turned 21, so even bigger expectations. No drunken party, but my dad bought me my first glass of wine (I downed it and declared myself a connoisseur moments later), and JOrdan presented me with..... A KEURIG!!!!! My babe did pretttty good picking that one out! Third - It's Christmas! And after a heated and unexpected weekend of arguing about the in-laws versus the in-laws, Christmas morning was a beautiful time for Jordan and I to start our own tradition of sleeping in and opening presents from each other in front of the tree. I felt pretty creative this year, as I talked our downstairs neighbor into hiding my present from Jordan for 2 weeks... I let him on a scavenger hunt (with a total of three clues as I knew he wouldn't be up for a full-blown hunt so "early" in the morning) that finished with his new grill at the bottom of our stairs. He was completely surprised, which was what I was aiming for, and pretty stoked. Then he gave me a KITCHENIAD MIXER! wOOt wOOt!!! Pretty freakin' excited about that. So all in all, Jordan did pretty good with December this year.... gold star!