Preparing for Christmas

My friend Steph and her family came over to visit my place this afternoon.  It's been about 2 years since I've seen her in person, so it was really nice to catch up.  This was their first time at my place too.  It also gave me an excuse to scrub my place down from top to bottom.  I can't show off the house with cat hair everywhere, right?  She got me a cute bag and an Etsy gift card.  I haven't use a Etsy gift card yet, so it'll be interesting.  Maybe I'll buy some artwork for my bedroom or some cute earrings. :)

After my guests left, I went over to my parents' house.  Julie texted that she was back from school.  We had dinner and then we took on the task of putting up the Christmas tree.  I used my iPhone to see how long it'd take us to set up the tree, ornaments, tinsel, and lights.  We clocked in at less then 20 minutes.  We've used this tree ever since I was young, so we've got the setting up and wrapping back up to a T.  We watched Lilo and Stitch after the really tough work, and of course, we laughed at the same jokes over and over.