Updated!! December Cara Box Reveal

I am so excited that I got to participate this month for my 2nd Cara Box, to get to involved visit Wifessionals!!  I found out December 1st that my husband and I had to move in two weeks, along with finishing finals and graduating!  But I accomplished it all and got my Cara box off without a hitch!!!  This month was different, as I sent my box to one girl and another sent to me!  So glad I got to know two new people, always fun!!  I sent my box to Brittney and loved getting to know her to include as much fun in the box as possible!  Jump on over to her blog and see what I sent!  I received my box from Tyler and I loved everything about it!  I am so sorry that I don't have pictures (did I mentioned I moved and it isn't found yet!!, shameful I know!) I had lots of sparkle in my box this time (the theme, of course)!  She sent me some ornaments for our tree, some magnets, and a few other things!  I will post an update with pictures, hopefully the hubs will find our camera today!  I wanted to get this post of there, but so sorry for no pictures!!!


Updated - Pictures of my December Cara Box!!  Because I found the camera!

Loves and Happy New Year!

Christmas is over??

I really love and look forward to Christmas every year!  This year has been crazy with finals, graduation, packing and moving.  But Thank the good Lord above that I am here to stay that I accomplished it all!  We had to be ready to host Christmas with my family on Sunday, and we were!  Don't mind the office not being completed, master bedroom and bath weren't done and we didn't have all our pictures hung, but goodness give a girl some slack!  We had places to sit, food to eat, and a kitchen to prepare it in!  I would say I did pretty darn good for a girl doing it most of it on her own.  My husband did an amazing job on his closet, you know because that's where people will sit while opening presents what makes him happy! 

I will do a house tour as soon as our pictures are hung, which will be there week.  We are having some family stay with us this weekend and then hosting one kick a$$ New Year's Eve party for all of our friends.  You know the other 6 couples that got married within 4 months of us....yeah we are awesome like that!  We absolutely love having such a close group of friends to share all of our excitment with!

I better get to work!  Hope you all had a blessed Christmas holiday!!!  Now, maybe you should get back to work too!

Be Blessed!

It's finals week....

I am in the midst of finals week, wish it was actually my last.  I was told 2 weeks into school that I was lacking 3 hours to actually complete my degree, I have enough to graduate so not enough to finish my Accounting degree.  Yeah, thanks OSU advisor!  NOT!  Mind you, I have had 2 degree audits and they missed that both times.  Sounds about right.  Well last night I had my Business Law final, which I rocked it's socks off!!  YES!  I leave at 12 today to finish studying for my final tonight at 6 then I have another one tomorrow night.  After tomorrow night, I will packing for a weekend in Stillwater, then home to move.

Our house is pretty much packed, the hubs has to finish the kitchen tonight and I need to put away the Christmas that we aren't taking over assembled. I am just ready for it all to be over!!!  I am super excited to see my family this weekend and share this exciting time.  I never thought I would graduate!!! But I am!!!

Have a blessed 12.12.12!!!

Oh Tuesday, can you be over?

So just wanted to update you guys on my last 48 hours!  The hubs and I were renting a house for a year to see if we liked the area and if we wanted to buy it (originally house was on the market/lease).  Well Saturday afternoon, we got a phone call from our Landlord saying that she had moved back to town and was going to stage a house on the market until our lease was up, but it sold that evening after she finished moving in.  Of course!  So she is offered us a HUGE discount to move out by Christmas so she only has to move once, and she doesn't want to sell her house anymore!  So we spent Sunday looking for either another house or would even settle for an apartment for a year until we are ready to buy.  We found a house, very close to my office and right by all the highways!!  We will get to start moving in the 16th, oh did I mention I walk at graduation the 15th? and have finals next week?  Yeah, because I am not busy enough, please add in packing and moving, along with my families Christmas is at our house.  So I just finished our Christmas decorations around the house, only to take them right back down!!!  SOOOOO FRUSTRATING!  I will make it through! Hopefully!!!  I might come down with shingles again, like I did three weeks before our wedding.  What doesn't kill us, makes us stronger right???  My husband has taken the lead in our family and I am so blessed to have such a wonderful man in my life!!

I better to started working for the day, it's Month End!  Oh to be an accountant.  Ugh!

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree

Well wouldn't you know, it's December 1st!!  Wow, time flies when you are having fun, er really busy!!  I thought I would give you guys a little taste of what the husband and I been up trying to make our house a Winter Wonderland.  I hope you think it is pretty and if you don't, well remember the saying "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."  I kid I kid, you all will love it.  I hope!  So Christmas is a big deal for me, I am always in such the Christmas spirit.  My husband, on the other hand, can get kinda Grinchy!  I usually do most of the shopping, all the packing, and all the wrapping.  I guess that is just how it goes....I will shut my mouth and let the picture do most of the talking!  I have to tell you where stuff is, okay!

Since the hubs and I are a strong house divided, one of bff's gave this to me for Christmas a couple years ago.  Cute, right?

Our Nativity Scene table (as you walk into our front door) 

I seriously love these little Alpine trees, I got them for like 2.00 after Christmas a couple years ago...best time to shop if you are adding to your collection!

 Guest Bathroom is Snowmen decor and peppermints.  

One of my favorite signs, it went well in the Guest bathroom this year. 

Our Advent Calendar...the elf brings something everyday!

Living room tree...I never think it is good enough!

My homemade Merry Christmas Sign and my fancy new reindeer.  The Santa was a gift from the hubs our first year together...he knew he would do well if he went with decor.

Mantel...not sure how I feel but it's up there and I am done decorating! 

Dining room tree is in leopard burlap with brown, black, and pearlish gold balls.  I just cut that burlap tree skirt and need to add the leopard deco mesh, that will happen next year! 

Our little Charlie Brown tree

Master bedroom tree in turquoise to match our room.

This is our picture wall, just because I finally got our wedding pictures hung! I love how it turned out!

I hope you have enjoyed the parade of homes tours...have a blessed weekend!

Cara Box Exchange

I was so very excited to take part in the Cara Box Exchange in November!  If you don't know what it is, visit Kaitlyn and find out all about the fun!  So I was partnered up with Kristen and I truly think it was meant to be!!  Once we got our partners, I emailed Kristen to let her know I was her partner and would be emailing again to get all the information I wanted to collect to put together the "Childhood" box.  Let me just tell you, this was a blast!!!  I loved every minute of getting to know sweet Kristen and also getting to shop for the box!  I wanted to be creative and fun and get anything that would remind her of her childhood, I hope I achieved just that!  Well without further-a-do...

I received my box and was very eager to open!!

I got the cutest postcard from Texas! 

Look at all the loot.  She got me a pizza kit, red velvet cupcake mix, a blue necklace (blue is my favorite color) Operation band-aids (she looked for Monopoly but no dice)

I got lots of candy, some lip glosses and a Cinderella coloring page with Markers!

When we were emailing back and forth, we discovered how we both loved the Rugrats!!  So she found me some awesome party blowers!!!

I told Kristen I think we were made to be friends because we loved the same stuff and she was getting ready for a cruise on the Carnival Triumph!!!  The exact boat that my husband and I took on our honeymoon in June.  Seriously crazy!!  I am so glad we were partnered together because she is such a doll and writes an amazing blog...go check her out!!!  I can't wait for December's Cara Box Exchange!!

Happy Thursday!

Today I was hoping to have my Cara Box Exchange post, but I was too busy last night to sit down and get it done at home.  I will tonight, I promise!!  This week has been crazy busy, kinda strange since I just had a 4 1/2 day weekend!  I guess I needed the sleep and such that occured on Sunday instead of finishing the house with Christmas!  It is nice to say, that we have all but our Bedlam trees up!  That will happen this weekend, once I clean my crap school stuff up in the office.  I have lots of studying to do this weekend and next week in prep of finals.  My second to last set of finals, Thank the good Lord above!  It has been a long time coming and I am so ready to be done.  I will be walking in the December commencement ceremony, but actually finishing in May.  I didn't know about this until after I was already two weeks into school, advisor fail!  Oh boy oh boy!  Can't wait to be done!!  I finally updated Internet Explorer so now I can blog more at work, not that I should but I might try! haha 

Not much else to talk about, I will post the Cara Box tonight and tomorrow night probably post our Christmas decor around the house!

Have a blessed day!  Toodles!