The last couple weeks have been great. We love Christmas time, it is always so much fun, it just always comes and goes so fast!!
Our house looks so cute, I love it! After hours of work putting up the lights and figuring out the right cords to buy and having to get someone to drill a hole into our morter to hang the wreath, well it was all worth it. The roof ended up being a lot higher than I thought it was too. We are the only house on our street that put up Christmas lights. I wonder why? They all probably think we are crazy. Every night I come home from work and there is our house, shining bright, haha.
We finished putting up the lights the saturday morning after Thanksgiving. That was the day that I had planned for us to decorate. It was such a fun day! After finishing up outside we got ready, went to Home Depot to buy a tree stand (we had a gift card) and then went to Red Lobster for a quick bite to eat (we had a gift card). I ended up running into a bunch of people that I used to work with/be friends with so that was kinda cool. After that we went to Romence Gardens and bought our Christmas tree. Our friend Andrea works there and she was telling us about how to get a coupon out of the paper and that they were nice trees and reasonably priced. This probably sounds so cheesy but, we came home and drank some cocoa, in Chris's case, eggnog, and decorated the tree. It's so pretty!! Last year after Christmas was over we bought a lot of decorations on clearance, and also got a lot for Christmas that said like "First Christmas in our New Home" etc, so I was pretty excited to use them all this year and see how it would look. I had also bought a lot of decorations at Hobby Lobby when their stuff was 50% off and got some great deals. It was good fun. =)
I bought Niles some sweet reindeer antlers but he won't leave them on for two long...it's kinda funny watching him try to get these off, it's a miracle I got him to sit still for a minute to take this picture....
Since then we've been doing the usual...getting some Christmas shopping done, working...I was going to send out Christmas cards but I think that now it is too late. I wanted to sent out a picture of us and we just didn't get it taken in time. Next year we will for sure!!
Last weekend our friends Adam and Amanda came over to see the house since they hadn't yet. I had been planning for a couple weeks and Chris and I finally decided on what food we were going to cook. It was really fun, we made steaks, twice baked crab stuffed potatoes and green beans. I also made a salad that had feta cheese, apples, dried cranberries and pecans in it, those are so good. Dessert was the kicker. I had seen this awesome looking cake on Martha Stewart monthes ago and it just looked SO pretty I thought that I would try it. It was a crepe cake...it had like 26 layers, supposed to have 32 but it started getting so high I quit early... NEVER AGAIN!!!!!! I kid you not people, between friday night and saturday morning I literally spent like 7 hours of my life on this thing, and if you don't believe me, ask Chris. It was so ridiculous!!! It looked great when I was done, but seriously, never again.
The stupid part, was later on in the evening Chris and Adam had gone to rent a movie and when they got back for some reason my stomach was like what did you do to me?? and I got sick. I ended up in the bathroom the entire time, and I could hear them out in the living room laughing at the movie and raving about how great the cake was. I was so disappointed!!! I ended up being sick all night long and into sunday. So much for having a great three days off of work!! I spent all day sunday trying to rehydrate myself and just resting. If there are three things that I hate it's throwing up, bloody noses, and getting hit in the head. So ridiculous.
So anyways, only 9 more days until Christmas now. I cannot wait. I love being with all of our families. And I haven't seen my nephew Samuel since like September since they live in Ohio and before that since like March when he was born I think? I hate that they live so far away. It will be awesome watching him open presents this year. He is so cute!
This weekend my parents are coming into town to spend the day with us on Saturday and I know Chris's parents will come hang out as well. We might go to the Fredrick Meijer Gardens depending what is going on there. Sunday we will be having our family Christmas with Chris's side of the family at our house this year! And then Christmas Eve after I get out of work we will be driving straight to my familie's house. God has been so good to our families, we are so blessed!!
I love Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!
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