Holiday Hiatus

As you may have guessed, the lack of posts the past week was due to my week-long holiday vacation at home. My boyfriend, who shall be referred to solely as “Tall Guy” going forward, and I got back to Philly on Saturday night and were perfectly happy doing nothing yesterday since we were so tired from our trip! Going home for the holidays is always really fun, but it’s also SUPER exhausting. On top of the holiday hubbub, it was Tall Guy’s first time meeting my family (yikes!) and seeing my neck of the woods, and only his second time in Boston, so we had a lot of bases to cover in a short amount of time. Hence the aforementioned exhaustion.

My second time picking out a tree this season!

Decided to step up my wrapping game this year and I’m pretty proud of how things turned out!

My brother and I at a family party in Rhode Island on Christmas Eve. I’m annoyed because Tall Guy can’t seem to get a good picture of us!

That time Tall guy came to Boston to celebrate Christmas with my family.

My favorite ornament back where it belongs! (Turns out it wasn’t broken after all…)

Particularly proud of the R2 D2 stocking I got for Tall Guy.

My parents got the starfish that’s on top of our tree when they went scuba diving one time when they lived in Aruba! PS – Can I live in Aruba?

That time we managed to get a half-decent picture of the 3 of us for the third year in a row!

And we finally got all 4 of the “siblings” together for a picture!

… And then this happened.

At Sam Adam’s Brewery Tour!

Tall Guy couldn’t leave without testing the waters at the beach!

Not pictured: Tree trimming, parking at South Shore Plaza the weekend before Christmas, Amtrak station at 7:30 am the Monday before Christmas, breakfast at the Mug, a pottery shop sale, Tall Guy running on 2 hours of sleep, Christmas Eve Yankee Swap hot-ticket item Dirty Water rum tasting like grain alcohol, driving around looking at Christmas lights late Christmas Eve, looking at luminary-lined streets in Tinkertown with the car headlights off, snow falling exactly as the clock struck 12 on Christmas, the 2+ hours it took us to open presents on Christmas morning, watching A Christmas Story all day but still not seeing the movie in its entirety, tearing the basement apart in search of a lost TV remote, our hilarious Sam Adams tour guide Grace, playing Think While You Drink for 3 hours, tequila shots, a snowy owl sighting and flight delays.

I hope your holiday was as fun-filled as mine! x