drama, family pictures, and Napoleon Dynamite (in a pear tree)

First of all, I love the fact that my whole Christmas rocked! My whole family was there, and they all met Heath for the first time. There were a couple of rocky moments, but all around, no islolated incidents. All in all, I'm not wincing more than I'm smiling.

Since our whole family was present this holiday (sis, hubby, and the kids), my parents decided it was time to take the family photos again (last time it occured bro-in-law was not present and it was 5 years ago), so we piled into 2 cars and headed to the nearest JC Penny's to smile in uncomfortable positions for a portrait that would stand the test of time on my parent's wall. Ugh.

It all started out harmlessly, we all arrived somewhat in time, but there was only one person there to help us, and she looked like someone who eats lemons on PMS, she was not a happy person. I'm sure it had something to do with other people in that dept. not showing up on time (ugh, retail...blah), but my bro-in-law kept making references to Nep. Dyn. when he was getting his high school pics taken, "now put your hand in a fist and sloooooowly raise it to your chin, that's right, now slightly tilt your head...like thiiiiiiiiiis", ya'll know what I"m talking about. We were all trying not to laugh because he was totally mocking this woman, she had us playing some evil game of twister due to the fact that we are NOT a short family, so there was a lot of bending, leaning, and straddling chairs...that and she had this wierd obsession with telling my dad to lower his chin, I was tempted to start a tally (or a drinking game at this point). Let's just say by the time we were done, none of us could stand straight or walk without limping a bit.

Also, let's not forget that I look like a bloated vampire with my very pale skin and black hair. Ugh...why I get my pics taken is beyond me these days!

Heath was very well behaved the whole time. I can't really say he isn't all the time...it's just sometimes I get a little nervous. Now that I look at that, it almost sounds like I'm speaking about some errant child..no...that would be the love of my life. :) Ahhh ladies, men....but I digress. Heath and I are doing great, we have had a few wonderful relationshippy type breakthroughs and we're doing bettter. We are very committed to eachother and I still adore him very much. I had a good holiday, now let's hope that New Years will be all that and a bag of chips! Cheers!