PLEASE NOTE THESE PICTURES ARE JUST SNAPSHOTS AND SHOW NO PHOTOGRAPHIC QUALITY!

I am very sorry for the very brief blog yesterday! I was MUCH too excited about my presents, Christmas and my boyfriend & friends were over. It was just too crazy to blog! It was hard still to pull myself away from my presents… but I did want to tell you about them too!

Christmas morning we always have a scavenger hunt in our house. Instead of tearing apart presents for 10 minutes, its fun to take an hour searching for you gifts! Then we eat breakfast, and open stockings afterwards. We play with our presents for a little while, and then open the presents from my parents. (The first ones were from Santa!) Later that night my parents open their presents and usually still manage to surprise me with one LAST thing! It is super fun and makes it an all day affair so you are NEVER bored!

I asked for a Wii this year if you remember seeing my Christmas wishlist. Well luckily Santa FINALLY managed to find one in stock *wink* Seriously it took my parents and me 2 full weeks to find one in stock and order it. I was also super lucky to not only get Madden 09, Wii Sports, and Mario Kart like I asked, I also got Super Mario Galaxy (from Walter, my boyfriend), Wii Play, and Mario Party 8. My parents NEVER found Rock Band or Rock Band 2 in stock for Wii so they ended up giving the money to get it myself. After calling every Walmart and Best Buy within 100 miles of Charlotte, I finally found it online at Circuit City today at Concord Mills. I managed to order the LAST ONE in the store and have them hold it for me. It is probably the most fun EVER.

Apart from my Wii which I am absolutely in LOVE with! My parents also got me an Antique Kodak Folding Camera (from around 1914). It is awesome and I absolutely love it!

They also got me the VERY first volume of Popular Photography. I absolutely love that magazine and now I have Volume 1 of it. The first issue is from May 1937. WOW!

They were also nice enough to get me lots of clothes to send me off with, since I never buy clothes! (I hate shopping and all my money goes for camera gear!) I can always count on mom, she can get me, Walter, or an aunt all in style clothes that fit our personality. She should be hired as a personal shopper because she is the BEST at it!

My surprise this year was a new laptop case! I really, really needed one. I have been using a Vera Bradley messenger bag. It is cute but its hurts your shoulder after about 10 minutes. They got me this awesome new Incase backpack. It has a special place lined with velvet for your laptop so it is safe, and for your ipod so it wont get scratched. It has lots of room to put books, clothes, and TONSSS of pockets EVERYWHERE. I absolutely love it.

So my Christmas was the best EVER hands down! I hope everyone else’s was also! Now the Wii keeps blinking at me telling me to finish my game of Super Mario Galaxy (or get killed by the Dinosaur!)