As soon as they got home from the mall, they put up their Christmas tree. They ended up putting it in the corner by the window. The tree looked nice, once they had finished decorating it. The black, red, and pink glass ball ornaments, and green tree lights really made the tree stand out. Tommy realized that they had forgotten to buy tinsel to wrap around the tree. They decided to go to Wal-Mart instead of the mall, since it was closer. Wal-Mart was having a sale on Christmas decorations. Kimberly thought they needed to get some green glass ball ornaments for the tree and Tommy liked the idea. Tommy saw they had a red star to put on the top of a tree, so he decided to exchange the sliver star for the red star. He decided to get black tinsel wrap for the tree. And he secretly bought mistletoe to hang up.
While they were out, they purchased a white wreath. The wreath was pre-lit and had red and green lights. They purchased a pink bow with black trimming to put on the wreath. Kimberly purchased a pink stocking, and she purchased a white stocking, a red stocking, a green stocking, and a black stocking to hang above their fire place.
Once they finished purchasing everything they needed, they returned home and finished decorating for Christmas. They planned on having Kira, Ethan, Conner, Trent, and Haley at their home during the holidays. Kat found out that she was going to have to go out of town, during the second week of Christmas break. She had to go take some training on teaching advance PE class. Kat and Willie made arrangements for Conner to stay at Ethan's house, during the second week of the Christmas break. He was going to be with Ethan, until they went back to school. Anton claimed he had to go on a business trip for the entire Christmas break. Trent was going to stay with Kira during Christmas break.
Tommy and Kimberly were looking forward to the holidays. Tommy's parents, and Kimberly's mother and step-father were coming in for Christmas. They were going to spend the night with them on Christmas Eve and stay a few days with them. A few days before Christmas, Kimberly got a call from her mom. It was snowing in Paris and all the flights were canceled. Caroline wasn't going to be come in for the holidays. She was going to mail Tommy and Kimberly their presents. They decided to mail Kimberly's mother and step-father their presents. At least Tommy's parents were still coming in. A few days before Christmas, Tommy got a call from his parents. They wanted to know if they could come celebrate Christmas with them a day early. His father had to go out of town for some business meetings and won't be back until after Christmas. They agreed to let them come.
Jan and James came in on December 20th, since James had to go out of town two days later. They had a good time with his family. Jan and James got Tommy a new digital camera (that could record video, and it had a timer on it) and the got him a tall stand to put his camera on. They got Kimberly a new pink purse and a pink duffle. Tommy and Kimberly got his parents a GPS since they were on the road a lot, since they were on the road a lot. Jan and James left that night, so they could get back to Angel Grove.
The next day a package came in the mail. It was from Caroline. She had gotten them matching Christmas Pajamas, some picture frames and their wedding picture in a very nice picture frame. They put the picture on their dresser. Since it was just the two of them, they didn't have to worry about cooking a big Christmas dinner. On Christmas Eve, the got in their Christmas pajamas and went to bed. Tommy laid awake, it was only going to be him and Kimberly the next day. He want to give her a good Christmas. Tommy was aware that Kimberly was hiding that her disappointment that Caroline wasn't coming in. They went through that during their junior year in high school. But, she surprised them and showed up.
Kimberly was laying on her side and was laying very close to Tommy. Her head was resting on his shoulder and she had an arm around him. He was laying on his back. He hated to disturb her, she was sleeping so peacefully. Tommy slowly lifted her head off his shoulder and placed it on the pillow. He slowly moved her arm that was wrapped around him. Then he quietly got out of bed and went down stairs. Tommy sat down on the couch and turned the TV. As usual, Tommy was very forgetful. He left the hall light on. Kimberly woke up and noticed he wasn't in bed. She noticed the hall light was on and she went down stairs. Kimberly found him sitting on the couch in the living room. It was 12:45 PM.
"Why aren't you bed?"
"I couldn't sleep."
He looked like he was wide awake. She took a seat by him on the couch.
"Kim, go back to bed."
"It's late, you should be in bed too."
"I'll be there in a little while."
She knew Tommy wasn't going to be go back to bed anytime soon.
"Are you worried about something?"
He knew she read his mind.
"Beautiful, I want to give you a good Christmas."
"We'll have a good Christmas."
"Your mother isn't coming in from Paris."
"It still doesn't mean we can't have a good Christmas. Tommy, let's go back to bed."
They got up from the couch and they went back to bed. Both of them quickly fell asleep and slept the rest of the night. Tommy woke up at 8:30 AM. He quietly got out of bed and opened his closet. He pulled out a pair of jeans and a black tee. Tommy grabbed his bathrobe and went into the other bathroom to take his shower. Kimberly was still sleeping and he didn't want to wake her. After he took he shower and brushed his teeth, he went down stairs to cook breakfast. He got out some sausage links, eggs, and biscuit mix to make biscuits.
Around 8:45, Kimberly woke up. Tommy wasn't in bed and she figured he was already up. She opened the closet and got out jeans and a pink tee. Kimberly went into their private bathroom and quickly took a shower, brushed her teeth, and got she went down stairs, she noticed that Tommy was cooking breakfast. He had already laid out their new Christmas dishes and Christmas mugs.
"Merry Christmas, Beautiful."
"Merry, Christmas, Tommy. How long have you been up?"
"Since 8:30 AM, I got up to cook breakfast."
Tommy began to service breakfast. Kimberly got out the orange juice. After they ate breakfast, they went into the living room to open presents. They already knew what they got each other. Both of them opened the gift bags that had their sweaters. They decided they were going to wear their Christmas sweaters. Tommy put on his black sweater with the white snowflakes and Kimberly put on her pink sweater with the white snow flakes. They opened their other packages.
Kimberly had gotten a black sweater shirt that said "He's my better half," a pink tee that said "I adore him," a black sweater with a pink queen's crown on the front, a pink sweater with the letter O on the front, and a pink sweater, a new watch with a pink watch band, some khaki pants, some navy pants, some black pants, a pink cotton sweater, jewelry, pink dress shirts, some movies, a lab coat, and some dress shoes.
Tommy ended up getting a black sweatshirt that said "She's my better half," a black tee that said "I adore her," a black sweater with a white king's crown on the front, and a black sweater with the letter O on the front, a new watch with a black watch band, a new belt, a new briefcase, a few pairs of grey dress pants, a few pairs of black dress pants, some new ties, a grey shirt, a black shirt, and a red shirt, a green cotton sweater, a black cotton sweater, and red cotton sweater (to wear to school in the winter) and a lab coat.
They both put on their new watches. Tommy got out his new camera and camera stand. They still had the picture of them kissing under the mistletoe, in the youth center back in the junior year. Kimberly had no idea that Tommy had purchased mistletoe. He hung it right in front of their Christmas tree. Tommy put his camera on the camera stand and sit up the timer.
"Kim, we have mistletoe. Remember that we kissed under it back in the youth center?"
"It was on the day we had that Christmas pageant for children."
"Yeah, it was. You played your guitar and Aisha lead the children in singing."
"Can't believe you remembered."
They walked over to where the mistletoe was. They stood below it, like they did in their junior year. The timer went off and the picture was taken. Tommy went and looked at the picture. It was a close up picture. They were standing below the mistletoe and were kissing. Their Christmas tree was in the back ground. Tommy wanted to get another picture. He sat the camera on the timer and the stood by their tree. Tommy stood behind Kimberly and his arms were wrapped around her waist. They got another picture by the fire place. Both of them were sitting on the edge of fire place. The pink stocking, the green stocking, the white stocking, the red stocking, and the black stocking was in the back ground. That picture turned out good too.
They hooked his camera up to his computer and printed the pictures out. Kimberly got out Christmas picture frame that held three pictures. The frame had a Christmas tree in one corner. At the top, it said "Our First Christmas." They put all three pictures in the frame and hung it up next to the frame with their engagement pictures. Both of them had some pictures frames that they could keep on their desks at school. Tommy had their engagement pictures saved on the computer. He printed out a picture of them sitting on the heart shape lounge float of him proposing and the picture of them both in the pool. Tommy had his arms around Kimberly's waist. She had an arm wrapped around his neck and she was holding out her hand showing her new engagement ring. They also printed some pictures of their wedding. One picture was after they were officially married. And the other was of them cutting the cake at Haley's Cyber Space.
After they finished printing out pictures, they grabbed their robes and a change of clothes. They changed so they could go into the hot tub. Kimberly changed into a pair of pink athletic pants, and a pink athletic shirt. Tommy changed into a pair black sweat pants and a black sweat shirt. Both of them went out side and quickly got in the hot tub. It was really cold outside, but it was much warmer in the hot tub. They soaked in the hot tub for a few hours. Both of them lost track of time and missed eating lunch. When they saw the sun set, they got out of the tub. They quickly went back in the house and changed. Tommy put in TV dinners in the oven, since they didn't have time to cook. They sat in the living room and watched movies after they ate. Eventually, they both fell asleep on the couch. Tommy could tell he gave his wife a good Christmas.
