Christmas Time

I have been excited and waiting impatiently for christmas ever since the beginning of October, not really sure why, I have never had christmas fever come over me this bad before. It's nice that it is here but I am having a hard time trying to relax and enjoy it. : ( Clif and I put up our christmas tree :) it only took us two days to find one we liked on the mountain. I am thinking it is a combination of our pickiness, my inexperience, and clif wanting to explore dirt roads on the mountains rather than look for a tree. Anyway, we found one we could live with. Last christmas I had made clif 30 skiing penguins ornaments so we were both excited to put them on our tree this year. They don't hang, they actually just sit on ski slopes made of cotton batting so, DON'T BUMP THE TREE!!! :) (this of course means that we might not get to use them again next year since we will have a nine month old rolling and crawling around the house). I will get pictures up of it soon, I know that is what I always say but I really will, just having trouble lately getting around to getting pictures off my camera. I also decorated a small tree that I had with me during my college years. I mostly put it up to entertain my two year old niece I was babysitting. She had a cold and was not happy to not be with mommy for four hours so I had to be creative in entertaining her. Decorating my own house has been kind of fun even though I only have limited decorations that I have collected in my life.
Well, that is the unstressful parts of christmas. I have been decently busy designing and printing christmas cards which usually wouldn't be bad, I like designing and printing is ok but there are always all the little problems that show up here and there. Like my moniter dying at the print office, or my computer at home deciding to show symptons of dying and having only a month or two to live, or ink cartridges being bad and ruining my pictures, or ... never mind, I am sure you get my point. All things I just have to work around, without them everything would be too easy, RIGHT??
Also a little stressed about some presents I am still working on making for christmas along with getting visiting teaching done without all sorts of problems getting in the way and trying to be comfortable and brave enough to participate in our ward christmas party as Mary (with speaking parts, there is a reason I never did drama events). Well, I am just going to live for the week around christmas when hopefully I won't be working, my projects will be done and I can thoroughly enjoy family!!