'Twas the night before the night before Christmas...

(the 23rd...)

And all through the house

Not a baby was stirring (which is good because it was like 1am!)

Not even a mouse (because we don't have any here, thank you very much!)

The stockings were hung

On the piano with care (because of Claire's ability to pull on them and seriously injure herself with the stocking holders)

In hopes that we'd actually fill them with goodies this year.

(many times we really don't fill them, it's pathetic)

Janessa & Jordan were NOT nestled all snug in their beds

With visions of (NOT sugar plums..what are those anyway??) frosted sugar cookies dancing in their heads

Janessa in her favorite men's Hollister sweatshirt courtesy of her husband, and Jordan in his...beanie

Had just settled in the living room for a nice peek at the "stash"

So, we weren't supposed to GET anything for each other this year. BUT, Jordan, like the good husband he is, knows that Janessa loves it when he breaks that rule :) And he got her some stuff ANYWAY. NOW, he will forever say that I COULDN'T WAIT to open my gifts, but HEY. HE asked ME if I wanted to open them, and what was I supposed to say?? NO?

So here goes :)

*WARNING* Scary images of a makeup-free Janessa coming up... you may want to shield your eyes...

***But first: Is this not SUCH PRETTY wrapping paper? :)

The easy-find lid tupperware! YAY!

And I was very excited about this one: (Jordan knows I LOVE purple!)

Some of the boxes were really hard to open: (or maybe I'm just a dork and didn't get a knife or something...trying to rip packing tape with your bare hands might not be that easy...)

Jordan also got me a sweater from Macy's and two sweaters from his favorite store: Savers. Yep! They are cute too!

Now, since I was actually sticking to our "no presents" plan (since I already got this beauty and Jordan got a blu-ray player for himself for the same price as I got the camera...crazy!) I had gotten him NOTHING. NADA. ZILCH. BUT, he masqueraded the presents he got ME that morning, so I HAD to get him something! (even when he told me not to!)

So I headed to Walmart the night of the 23rd with my friends, Rachel & Jonathan, and Megan. Jonathan was awesome bc I needed to get a "good quality crescent wrench" and I had NO idea what that was or what "good quality" was) and so he helped me get it. And then I got him candy.

My manly man with the crescent wrenches :)

Um...I even wrapped the gum (Jordan LOVES pina colada anything!) so he'd have more than one present to unwrap haha ;)

And wrapped the Reeses...

And some candy Jordan likes but I DON'T, so it was awesome!!