The Tuesday before Christmas Steffie and I flew to Atlanta and then drove over to Alabama to spend Christmas with my family. We only stayed a few days, but it was a nice trip. (Honestly it was probably a nice trip because we only stayed a few days). I was super happy that Steffie was able to come home with me. We were worried that she wouldn't get to just starting out with her new job, but she did.

We went out to my grandmother's house for Christmas Eve where we had LOTS of food, more food, and did I mention food? Steffie got / had to go to go through meeting my whole family while we were there. It's a lot of people to meet all at once. There were fifteen there at Grandmother's plus we went by to visit my dad's brother as well. All the family seemed to like Steffie. My aunts cornered me in the Kitchen while I was fixing Steffie a dessert plate and told me that they liked her, that she was a sweet girl, and that I should bring her back.

On Friday after Christmas I went and got a new tattoo from my tattoo artist Turtle. It was so cool to see him again and he was super excited about doing the tattoo I wanted. People came in and took a peek of it as he was doing it. Steffie got to watch, which made me happy since I didn't get to watch her get her tattoo last Christmas. We're hoping to get Steffie another one from Turtle the next time we're down to visit my family. More photos of the tattoo when it gets all healed and pretty.

Steffie smuggled a GIANT salt cured ham home with us when we came home on the Saturday after Christmas. It took up all the room in her carryon bag. She was so cute being all happy about bringing home a salty ham.

All said, I enjoyed Christmas. It was a nice change from the normal round of screaming and bitching at eachother that normally goes on. I was very happy that it was a remarkly peaceful holiday, and most of all I was very happy to be able to spend the holiday with Steffie this year along with all my family back home and have them glad for me that I've found someone I can be happy with.