Hip Hip Hooray for Christmas Vacation!!!

Jray on the giant chair outside of No Mas Cantina!

The gang at dinner!

Benny and our new baby!

Big Red!!!

Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas...a Heatherly Tradition!

Christmas Vacation was a lot of fun this year!!!

Ben and I left for Spartanburg late afternoon on Tuesday! As soon as we got to Spartanburg we went out to dinner with Mom, Dad, Kelly, Travis, and Johanna and Steve! We ate wings and had a great time catching up! After dinner, we came home and watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation while we spent some QT together!!! Make sure to ask Johanna about the "candle incident" for additional laughs!!

Wednesday morning Ben went to meet a coworker in Greenville for lunch while I helped my mom bake Gingerbread men (unfortunately my cake decorating skills from Baskin-Robbins in high school have faded so all of the gingerbread men looked a bit disabled) and then Ben and I went for a quick run around the golf course. That night we went to church for Christmas Eve services and had Chicken Stew for dinner. Around 8pm my parents, my sister, and Ben and I headed to Roper Mountain in Greenville to see the Christmas lights!

After that we came home and started watching 24 hours of A Christmas Story on TBS until we fell asleep. By the way, whoever came up with the 24 hours of A Christmas Story idea was a genius!!! I watch it at least 5 times in a row on Christmas day!!!

Christmas morning we exchanged gifts and had my aunt and uncle over as well as my grandma! We had a great time and we all got a lot of awesome gifts!!!

Friday, after a quick trip to the gym by my parents house, Ben and I started our CAR SHOPPING!!! I have been dying to get a new car for ages and Ben and I both decided that now would be a good time to start looking! We went to the Lexus dealer in Greenville but we weren't really happy with their selection. So we came back to my parents empty handed. Friday night Ben and I went to Sidestreet Pizza (SO YUM) in Tryon, NC with Ethan, Johanna and Steve. We had a great time hanging out and catching up! We then came back to my parents and watched our traditional Christmas movie Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas (it's a Heatherly tradition that Johanna, Ethan, Me and my parents all watch this movie together). Ben and Steve hate it...it's like pure torture to them!!!

Saturday morning Ben and I were on the road early back to ATL because we had more car shopping to do. We stopped by Nalley Lexus of Roswell and that's when I saw her....BIG RED!!! It was love at first site! So Ben and I bought her....my brand new baby!!! Here are some pics of my Lexus RX 350!!!

I'm so in love!!!

Sunday after finalizing all our car stuff and bringing Big Red home to meet Bertha the '03 Corolla, we went downtown to meet Andy, Angela, Anastasia, her BF Ryan, and Jon Ray for dinner at No Mas Cantina. We had a great time catching up over margaritas!!! Oh and Jray decided to christen my new car by eating extra beans on his burrito...Thanks Jray!!!

It was definitely a very Merry Christmas for the Sullivans!!!

Hope everyone else out there had a great Christmas!!!