Christmastime

This December has been super busy for us, Matt has been finishing his semester and had to take almost a full week off for finals so he could "study," which basically means so he could sleep in and have me help him finish his take-home final and copy old tests into his notes... Anyways... It was crazy for me to finish off the month and get my students all set for the break, and finally get caught up on that stack of stuff on my desk that I can never seem to find time for.
Luckily, through all the craziness, Matt and I have been able to do some of the things on my mental "Christmas To-Do List," including:
1. Attend the "Forgotten Carols" (Easily one of my favorite traditions)
2. See the lights downtown with Tim, Kamie, Kendra, Lance, Jenna and Jake
3. Attend the Christmas performance of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir featuring David Archuletta
4. Shop, shop, shop (which I HATE, HATE, HATE!!!!)
5. Eat lots of Myrna's sweet rolls
6. Have my family over for dinner to celebrate Alex's 21st birthday
7. Go with my mom, Jeff, Alex, and Cassie to get my mom's Christmas tree and have dinner to celebrate my mom's birthday
8. Listen to SOME Christmas music

I really do love this time of year.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Our New Apartment

This post has been long time coming, so sorry for all you people who have been waiting to see pictures of our new apartment. We are so happy to be here, we love having two bedrooms, a big open family room, a nice kitchen, a washer and dryer, a big closet, and so many other things! If you want to see more, call me and freaking come over!

Our family room (view from the second bedroom)

Our family room (view from the entry)

Our "dining room" (and you can see our washer and dryer in the kitchen)

Our second bedroom AKA office/LIBRARY

Our bedroom

The kitchen! Yay!

Pictures

Ok so photo shoots are not as fun when you don't have kids, but I did like some of these pictures and had to share...

Christmas Decorations

For my birthday, my mom bought me a bunch of way cute Christmas ornaments and I was so excited to put them all on my tree, and put up all my other fun decorations. I decided to go with the bright green and red colors for my decorations, and it turned out super cute! (Of course, none of the pictures really do this justice...)

Since I don't have a mantle anymore, this is in our window:

Matt was sad we don't have a Pepsi wreath anymore, but I love how this one turned out:

The tree!

Matt had to have some input on the tree, and since my tree topper was too big, this was it:




21 DAYS!

I DON'T WANT TO GO TO WORK TOMORROW!

Winter Crafting

For my birthday, Lance and Kendra gave me a gift card to the Wood Connection and Kamie and Tim gave me a gift card to Hobby Lobby... Obviously, I love to craft! I decided to finally get myself something for Thanksgiving, although I didn't make it until Thanksgiving was over... But oh well. As you can see here, this was the end product.



I also bought some cute trees to add to my Christmas decorations (my mom bought me Christmas ornaments for my birthday too, I'm so spoiled... You will see those soon, once we get our tree decorated).


And finally I needed to make my own version of my totally favorite quote to go in my kitchen. Since the quote reminds me of sweet treats, I had to go with the black and pink, although Kamie and Jenny wanted theirs to match their kitchens. The tan and red one is Kamie's and the black and red one is Jenny's. They are not completely finished, but close! I can't wait to finish and put mine up!

We've Moved!

Yay! We are officially out of our one-bedroom apartment and into a bigger apartment! Yay! Pictures will be coming soon, I can't bring myself to put pictures on the blog of an apartment that still has boxes sitting around.