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!

It's OK Thursday

....that I didn't do my hair today because the extra 20 minutes of sleep was way more worth it!!

....that I would rather go shopping on my lunch than actually eat

....that today was my "work Friday" so I did more actual work today than any other day of the week

....that I can't wait to get my hair done tomorrow, seriously I will be pretty (hair wise) once again!

....that I drank more at dinner than I ate because I was too busy talking to two great gals!

....that I bought more red deer for more Christmas decor, come on you can't really ever have too many Christmas decorations!


I hope ya'll had a great Thursday, I am off to snuggle with the husband and enjoy my sleeping in!  Fingers crossed it actually happens.  Just have to be up to drive to Stillwater for my hair appt at 11!

Toodles!

a weekend of rest!

well i didnt get to do much this weekend. my body was angry from being nonstop on the go and decided to come down with alittle sickness! so i rested friday night, missed snuggle time with my babies in stillwater and missed the game as well. i did do a little shopping with my mil and got a few new christmas decorations! i absolutely had to fight the urge to get our tubs and tubs and more tubs down of christmas decor. trust me when i say i think it is happening this weekend!  just a quick update from the phone, hence the little letters.

toodles and have a blessed day!!

Monday Catchups

So sorry lovies that I have been MIA.  School has been a pain and so after working all day on the computer, then going to class, home to make dinner and spend time with the hubs...there isn't much time for blogging.  Well I am back (I HOPE)!! 

This weekend, my sister Jess and her sweet babies came to visit.  They came Friday night in the evening and we made some payday cupcakes...pure delishiness.  hahaha  Actually, we made them to take to my sweet bff that had a baby a couple weeks ago.  I have been making food and taking it to them so they aren't cooking.  It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to do things for other people.  So I snuggled my munchkins all night until they had to go to sleepers.  Then Saturday morning, being the best Aunt in the world, I got up and made pumpkin french toast.  YUM.  Then we got around and went to the a craft fair, it was okay, nothing to really write home about.  Saturday evening, we went to said bff's house to take chicken and noddles, pumpkin french toast, fruit salad and payday cupcakes....in hopes of getting to hold PK.  Well we accomplished that real well!!!!  hahahaha 

Sunday was a very lazy day.  I didn't shower until about 3pm and we just laid around all day.  I did some homework while the hubs was at his football game.  Did I mention that I put a roast in the crockpot that morning to let it cook all day and I wanted to eat ALL.DAY.LONG because the house smelled so good.  And this is why I am a fattie.  But I love cooking and eating!  haha 

Anyways...I better get back to work.  I have to spend my lunch break at the dentist getting my pearlie whites cleaned and even whiter!  And I get alittle nose full of gas, awe these are the good times. 

Happy Monday!!!