Nick ‘n’ Heather

Wow, a lot has happened since the last update. I headed back to Ada and chilled out there until Christmas Eve night. We had our little Olson family Christmas and it was a good time. I got pots and pans so I can cook even more delicious food. Besides that I got some more gadgets and gizmos to go along with all the other ones that seem to keep piling up. After a bit of supper I made my way back to Moorhead where I managed to squeeze a few of Cindy’s ribs into my tummy as well. After that there were more presents.  I finally got a digital camera, which was my gift from Heather, so there will be a ton of pictures that keep showing up on here from now on.

After much some more Guitar Hero downstairs we all managed to call it a night.  In the morning, we got up and prepped.  We made our way over to Heather’s aunt’s house.  There we started the routine all over again, gifts chatting, presents, the whole deal.  There everyone just brought one gift with a max value of $15 and everyone just picked a gift at random.  Heather got Rummikub and picked out a book.  After we managed to extract ourselves and I could drag Heather away from the cookies we made our way back to Ada again.  There it was more foods and presents.  After the festivities we got down to the Olson tradition of card playing.  A good time was had by all and we played cards for hours.  Eventually, all the fortunes had been won and lost and everyone headed off to bed.

Wednesday was not too much happening.  We sat around a bunch and that night stopped uptown where my friend Blair was having a little graduation party.  A couple of friends from high school were there and Heather had a good time chatting up with Blair about snowboarding.  As we were leaving Heather was sniffing the air and declared that Ada smelled like beef jerky.  I do believe that was a compliment.

Thursday we lounged around and Heather decided she was going to go snowmobiling, but I’ll let her cover that.  That night we had to take family pictures for the church and afterwards we headed back to Ada with Brian in tow because he was having car issues.  That night we met up with Heather’s family at the nursing home where Curt’s mom was.  There Heather got to see her favorite niece, baby Addison.  We headed back to Heather’s house where I was told I had to set up the Wii.  There we played a lot of bowling and Guitar Hero before finally going to bed.

Friday was pretty much the same thing again, lounging, food, gifts, Wii, etc, etc…

Saturday we packed up and headed back to the big city.  We got in around 5 and promptly did nothing.  We were pretty worn out.   Sunday was more of the same except we did pick up a bit because my aunt was coming over.  They stopped in to visit for a while and after that we bopped over to Ryan’s to watch some of the Vikings game.

Monday I worked and Heather made mice, she can fill in on that one.   Monday night we went to a coworkers where we played Rock Band and hung out waiting for the ball to drop.  Tim came and hung out as well and it was pretty fun.  Tim ended up crashing at our apartment because it was so late.

He took off early this morning and Heather and I have done our best to refuse to get up since.  I’m leaving it up to Heather to fill in the details on this post because there was just to much to cover in one shot.