christmas came early!!!

life is good.

christopher gave me my christmas present early this year and boy was it a good one!  he sure outdid himself!

this is what christopher brought me for christmas this year...

he was so excited all day long to go "pick up" my christmas gift and give it to me.  at first i wondered why he wanted me to open it so early.  but then when he brought in two huge packing boxes i realized it just must be so big that he can't conceal it from me at all.  anyways.  he brought little boxes in one by one and dumped them all over me, the sofa, the coffee table, and the floor!  i was so overwhelmed i may or may not have cried.  come now, don't we all get a little extra emotional during the holidays?  plus, christmas music was playing in the background. 

ps- i know i said in my birthday post that my two buildings were my soon to be HUGE christmas village but i meant like soon as in the next ten years.  this really was 100% a complete surprise!

so then he helped me take them all out of their boxes so i could see them each individually.  they are so beautiful and old timey.  they're from the dept 56 charles dickens set so they're all from that time period and include scrooge's house and tiny tim's house.  yes, i know i'm weird and this is not a normal obsession for someone in their mid-twenties.

now here are just a million pictures i took when we set it up last night.  it was magical.

so there you have it.  my life is complete.