I took a week off from blogging to survive the holidays. I say survive, because right now I am breathing a great big sigh of relief they are over. Don’t get me wrong, I had a GREAT Christmas filled with friends and family, pies and turkeys and all of the items that are not on my approved diet.

Now that it is all over, I feel like I can try to get my life back in order and enjoy the remaining two weeks before I start back to school. But before I get too cosy and undo the top button to my jeans, here is a brief recap of my Christmas holiday starting with, of course, the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party thrown by my housemate Heidi and I! You know the ones, where everyone dresses in the worst possible, over the top tacky Christmas outfits.

Last years party was just the girls, but this year we opened it up to friends of both the x and y chromosomes.

Heidi, the tacky office secretary and me, the homemaking teacher

Karina, the confused Russian

Jason & Summer, a beautifully nerdy couple

The rule breakers!

ED and I cracking up over something absolutely HILARIOUS... I just can't remember what it was.

For more pictures, be sure to check out my Flickr feed.

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My adorable aunt always sends out invitations to our family Christmas party. Last year she sent an invite addressed to “Summer and Karina” because Karina was my date. This year she sent the invitation to “Summer and ED”.

For those of you who do not know, ED is not actually my boyfriends real name. In fact he kind of hates that his “blogging name” is ED, which truthfully makes it that much more fun. I thought it was incredibly cute of my aunt to address it to ED, although he is now concerned none of my family will ever know him by his true name.

He can be such a whiner like that at times.

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This was the first Christmas ED and I have spent together. We started dating (this time) in January 09 (coming up on our one year anniversary!). It was amazing, and yet strange, how oddly comfortable it felt to spend this overly hyped holiday with him. We bounced from party to party together, friends and family, flawlessly. We didn’t fight and after spending the weekend with his family in the country, I love him even more than before. This crazy man of mine — big whiner that he is and all — is a keeper.

How were your holidays? Are you as relieved as I am to have them over or do you feel like they flew by entirely too fast?

Blogfully yours,

Summer

Summer Holidays