California Christmas!

While Max was flying east to England last weekend, I took advantage of my school's holiday break and was flying west to California for a week of visiting family and friends! By Christmas Eve I had made it back to my mom and dad's house in time for all of our family traditions : ) The sisters exchange our gifts to each other on Christmas Eve night, and we just love our yearly pajama photo Christmas morning:

Christmas morning I was super excited to open this coffee maker! I can't wait to use it:

And I put these new Uggs on right away:

I was totally surprised to open this ice cream maker, especially since I've been secretly wanting one since I watched Giada De Laurentiis make this yummy Pomegranate and Mint Sorbet on the Food Network.

But the best Christmas present of all was that my husband (against all odds) made it back from England before Christmas! Many remained stranded over there due to their crazy weather, so we were very lucky to have him arrive in California safely and in time for the Christmas festivities!

He did have to suffer a nine hour delay at Heathrow (this involved trying to board the plane three different times) but at least he now has the British Airways elite status (8 roundtrip flights in 8 months will do that for you) and can go eat ice cream and drink cocktails in their special lounge while he's waiting : ) Now it's more flying for these lovebirds as we travel back to Arizona to ring in the new year. 2011 here we come!