Christmas Shopping

This past weekend, Taylor & I did ALL of our Christmas shopping. It was pretty impressive if I do say so myself. We had a list of the stores we needed to go to, with the list of gifts and who they were for. We set out around lunch, and were done by 6! Yes...I know that sounds like a long time, but we were driving in between and like I said, we had lunch! Ha.

I'm not sure I have ever felt so efficient in my life. Well...maybe at some point in college. Some of my good friends used to say "efficiency, efficiency, efficiency"- mainly during yell leader campaign season, but there were other times...setting up for weddings, cleaning for a party, decorating for a shower...the usual. :) But back to shopping - we were efficient for sure! We mapped it out, went to each store, picked up what we needed and we were out. Well that was mostly the way it went, until the mall - we all know how easily it is to become distracted there!

I love Christmas shopping. I love the planning and figuring out what presents to give people. It is so fun to think about what exactly to get each person. I always sit down and write out what people are interested in. I also write down anything that I remember that they have had an interest in or have mentioned that they have wanted. If I can afford it, that is the easiest choice. I also like to make presents, or in some way put a personal touch on them. I always want to make sure they will like their present and will be able to use it more than once. Unless it is food of course - but I can't really recall a time I bought food as a present. Well, except for my Uncle Jimmie who LOVES anything chocolate & peanut butter - he almost always gets some form of Reece's. Ha. Needless to say, I like to put a lot of thought into people's gifts, because it makes me so happy when somebody opens a gift and loves it. I sure hope we did a good job this year, I mean I think we did, but I'm somewhat partial.

I still have shopping to do for Taylor, but it is hard to shop for somebody when they are helping you do the shopping, but I'll get that taken care of this weekend! On Sunday, I wrapped all the presents, and put them under our tree - it looks like a REAL CHRISTMAS TREE! And by real I mean, just all lit up, decorated and with wrapped presents underneath. In collge we always had some kind of tree up, almost every year it was my small pink one, but it never really had presents underneath it. I just love it! I will have to take pictures and be sure to upload them to the blog. I have been so bad about adding pictures...it is because I write most of my posts during my downtime at work, and I can't really upload pictures here, but I will try harder to do so.

So even through those couple of rants, this was just to say that we completed our Christmas shopping with sucess and we cannot wait to give everybody their presents!!! We start our Christmas travels in less than two weeks & we really are so ready!!! We get to see two of our families, go to a wedding, and see lots of our friends over the break - life is good!!! I hope you all are just about done with Christmas shopping and have loved every second of it! Hopefully we will see YOU soon!

Love you all!
-Kauffman Krew