doid: 6th month anniversary, BERT, a purse named Zoe, and Christmas

Hi, my name's Chelsea, and I have a pretty awesome life right now.
Merry Belated Christmas (by 5 minutes)!

Christmas Eve was our 6th month anniversary.
We've been married for 6 months and two days now.
AWESOME.
I was planning on taking more pictures throughout the day...

but in the end, these last mintue, "Zac, will you please take a picture with me?" had to do.
We spent our very first Christmas Eve together with Josh's family.
We had good food, good conversation, and Mario Kart the whole night (I got 4th every single race >< I will get better, I promise!)
And...

I GOT TO CUDDLE WITH BERT AGAIN.
You remember Bert, don't you?
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
I am proud to say that Bert cuddled in my lap on several occasions and once even fell asleep.
Quite the feat, if I do say so myself.
He's very ferocious.

For our Christmas, we stayed in Provo, due to being poor married college students.
It was both of our first Christmas's away from family.
So...it really sunk in that Zac and I are our "own" family now.

Of course, we still have our moms, dads, siblings, and extended family to share Christmas with by phone and internet. But it was still somewhat hard waking up this morning and realizing we were on our "own."
However, I think we were also excited to start a holiday with one another, just the two of us, with new and unfound traditions.
We tried pulling a Christmas Eve all nighter...but ended up falling asleep at 3 or so.

We were laying in bed at 1 am, not very tired.

Zac says to me, "I'm not tired. Are you?"

"No, not really."

"Do you wanna pull an all nighter?"

"Really? Right now?"

"Why not?"

"...Okay."

"Really?"

"YEAH! Okay here's what we're gonna do. 1) Get out of bed."

"Right."

"No, you say 'check.'"

"But we haven't done anything yet."

"Oh, right. Well then just say 'right.'"

"Right."

"1) Get out of bed."

"Right."

"2) Turn on the light."

"Right."

"3) Clean up the living room and kitchen."

"Do we really have to?"

"Yes. 5) Open presents."

"YAY!"

"6) Hot cocoa...and a movie?"

"We'll figure it out from there."

"Ready?"

I felt him nod next to me.

"LET'S DO THIS."
<3
We enjoyed a humble and quiet Christmas with one another.
Thank you Karen and Stephanie for sending us these amazing gifts!
We love you so much!!!