Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!  We did - I love family time whether it's Josh's or mine. I also LIVE the holiday season. I starter listening to Christmas music 2 weeks before thanksgiving and I started slowly, but surely, putting out my decorations.
 
I was able to go Black Friday shopping with Jane and we stood in line at Wal-Mart for about 3 hours for some deals.  I ended up getting all my presents for Josh and I think I saved about $200 on him! Woohoo!  We went to the mall too, but I just got an ornament for the tree and then we came home.
 
Then on Saturday when we got home from my family's Thanksgiving in Omaha I got to put up my tree, lights and everything! I'd been working on some pinterest projects hanging ornaments in the kitchen window and my homemade ones didn't turn out so well so I bought some on Black Friday.  There's a picture of them hanging in the window.

Then I put a sheer curtain in our window to spice up the curtains we had and I put some twinkling lights behind the sheer and it looked nice!

There's also a picture of our tree this year (yes, I only have like 2 presents left to get) and Taytum was just SO tired from all the decorating!


  
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and is enjoying this great season! (I just wish it would snow a bit now. ;))

Happy Thanksgiving!

There hasn't been much to update everyone on since in reality, we haven't really done much. After we finished the bathroom it was such a relief we just wanted to hang out and do nothing and worry about nothing. We ended up going to see a movie last weekend and I've just been slowly knocking things off the Christmas list. I'm hoping to have most of it done on Friday (yay Black Friday shopping!). But I have almost everything wrapped and ready to go under the tree!

This weekend Andy and Kayden swung through for a little bit and I got to "babysit" while the boys drove around town a bit. (And by babysit I mean she napped and I just watched T.V. ha). Then we went to Hairball with Bryce, Jill, Guck, and Rachel. Hairball is basically like an 80's hairband that plays everything from KISS to Prince to Motley Crue to Journey. And they dress up and totally get into the parts. It's pretty much AWESOME and the tickets were only $15. I liked it, and considering we haven't done much lately it was a nice night out.

I've also been in the mood for doing more crafts. I am slowly, but surely, starting my Christmas crafts so they're all ready for the season. I need to make some sparkly ornaments to hang in our kitchen window, but I have almost all the other crafts done! I did this two this past weekend - one is an ornament wreath; super easy, but I bought all the ornmanets at the Dollar Tree so I didn't have much to work with, but it still turned out cute.

The other is a wine bottle that I took the label off and then stuffed it with lights and put a ribbon on it. It was SUPER easy and cheap, but not as cute as the painted one's at Hy-Vee; but I'm still proud of my handiwork ;).

I've also started the application process for the Drake Masters program in School Counseling. I am a little scared, a little excited, and VERY overwhelmed. It's been a lot looking for various things to send in, and getting everything rounded up. I am able to take a couple of classes before they accept/reject me after March 1st, so I'm ready to get the ball rolling. It's a BIG step in my future, but I am certainly looking forward to it!

That's basically it for now. I am REALLY excited about the Holiday season coming up. I get so excited sometimes I want to cry haha. I've already started listening to Christmas music and I am SO excited to get our tree up and shining! Can't wait! Once it snows..it will be beautiful. Have a happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there!

FINALLY!

It's finally FINISHED!! After days, weeks, months (May-November to be exact) I present, dream come true bathroom DONE:



There are a few minor things that need to be done (like caulking the window and such), but I actually got to shower in it last night and it was AMAZING!!! I LOVED having such space and freedom and the glass doors are just TOO cool!! It was literally the best thing ever and SO worth the wait!

So now we have TWO finished bathrooms! I couldn't be happier and more excited - Josh is seriously the most amazing guy out there and I couldn't be more blessed. :)