I am just going to start off with saying I have the most stellar Secret Santa, no questions asked. So I found out a little early that my Secret Santa is from some place I use to live! Spokane, or as I like to call it, Spokandyland! I grew up in Idaho and Spokane was a huge part of my childhood, teenage years, and then my home for a couple years when I was first an "adult." I immediately had a very home comforting feeling and was way more excited for this exchange!

I let me Secret Santa know I was going to New York for the first time this weekend and found out he had traveled there before! I received a list of tips and tricks that I am taking with me which I am sure will make my husband's and my first trip to NYC even better! I love exploring and getting travel tips is absolutely priceless to me. Honestly, we could have stopped there and I would have been happy. Correction, I was happy with just that!

Then last night my new friend, Patch the Garden Gnome, arrived in the mail. We both share a love for the Celtics and immediately bonded. He also brought an amazing and comfortable new Celtics shirt along! It's two parts and the tank top underneath even has a celtics logo on it. These will be often worn, especially while we watch the Celtics take the championship this year.

Naturally our first course of action as new BFFs was to duke it out on NBA 2K15. I won the coin toss to play the Celtics, though I did not win the battle...

Fair is fair. I accept my defeat to Patch.

Thank you, Secret Santa! The travel tips, the shirt, and Patch the Garden Gnome are beyond stellar and I could not be more grateful! :)