Sweetness! One of the things I love the most about Jason is the way he *does* holidays. Not a single holiday goes by without all the traditional activities. Things that I love to do, but hate to plan. Like hiding easter eggs, making cranberry sauce, and buying fireworks. In fact, one of my favorite memories is of our first Easter together. We were renting this cool little house in Morro Bay with a HUGE backyard. The yard had been neglected from years of renters, and I'd vowed to make it shine again. I was hand-pulling large amounts of weeds and ivy every single day. In fact, I'd become a bit obsessive about it. So, late on the night before Easter, I'd decided to take a flash light and go back out into the yard to pull more ivy. Jason sees me and says "You are not going out there and pulling more ivy." I figured he just thought I was weird and said "I'm tired of watching TV tonight, so I'm just going out to weed." At which point, he got a very strange tone and said "If you go out there, I'm going to tackle you and bring you back in." And since I'm such a feisty pig-head, I sassed back "Then catch me..." and I ran out the door. I got about 10 steps out the door, and he indeed tackled me to the ground and carried me back in the house. It turns out that he'd hidden easter eggs all through the backyard as a surprise. And, here I was going to weed in the middle of the night and ruin the surprise. LOL! Jason did an amazing job on Christmas again this year. The lights have been twinkling on our roof since Thanksgiving. He and the girls baked cookies for Santa yesterday. He bought all the food for an awesome dinner tonight (ham, my favorite). And, so by the time Christmas morning rolled around, I think he was more excited than the girls. Anna bolted out of bed this morning (as opposed to her usual slow walk-of-death in the mornings) and ran to the top of the stairs, let out a huge gasp, and shouted "HE was here! He was HERE! Come see all the presents, mom!" My favorite quotes from the day were from Anna and Jason. Anna "wow, the elves make the best toys." Jason (holding a tinkerbell doll after seeing box after box of princess, Barbie, and My Little Pony) "Well, I guess this is the closest thing to an action figure that I'll ever see in this house."