I've mentioned a couple of times that I made some gifts for this last Christmas. Yeah, I know, it's almost February but we all know that I'm a bit delayed in posting about things. LOL
I'm really not a crafty person so I was a bit out of my element but since I'd been seeing so many fun things on Pinterest I decided to give some things a try.
I decided to make a couple of things for my sister, my SIL, my mom and my step-mom.
For my sister and SIL I made ribbon necklaces and jewelry boards. My sister's is the black and white board and my SIL's is the larger silver, white and teal board. My mom's is the smaller silver, white and teal board and my step-mom's is the brown and teal board. I gave them pearl-headed pins to go with them.
The teal necklace I made for my SIL and the other three I made for my sister. I had a lot of fun putting these together for them and finding the pieces that I thought fit their personalities the best. I think that they love them so that makes me feel good that I was able to make something fun for them.
SO that's the first set of things I made. I also want to show you the decorations that I did this {last} year because I'm really proud of how I made things {with my mom's help} and had it all come together. I think it all turned out great and festive! I'll post those soon but I'm going to be pretty busy the next few days so it likely won't be till next week.
Oh, also, I must give credit where credit is due. Kyle painted three of the four frames for me. I could've done it but I am so NOT a painter so it would've come out all gross and drippy and he's fantabulous at it so he was willing to help me out with that part. Love that man! :)
It's to look back on the things that made it to Facebook {or Twitter} that didn't make it to your blog. I know that I definitely get more things to Facebook that I do here so to start this off, here are some highlights from December:
{My dad joined a choir for the first time in years and he was really excited about it.
This was his first performance with the group.}
{Kingston turned 4!}
{This is the school that I went to for 3rd & the first half of 4th grade.}
So I guess that's my snippet of things that happened in December. It was certainly a busy, busy month and I've definitely been a slacking blogger so I think this will be a fun thing to do to update everyone once a month on the things that I've lacked to blog about.
Now it's your turn. . .
If you'd like to participate and show off your favorite facebook moments from the month, all you have to do is create a post of your favorites and include a link back to my cousin's post so that others can participate!
Today as we sit in our house, snowed in for the past week or so, we're celebrating 10 years of wedded bliss!
It's crazy how fast time flies!
I wrote this post about all the details of our wedding back in 2009. I still love looking back and reminiscing. It truly was a magical day.
As I was posting about our anniversary on Facebook this morning, one of my best friends commented on one of the photos that has my flower girl and ring bearer in it. Once upon a time, both her and I nannied for them. She was asking me if I remembered their last name and I didn't. A few minutes later she had found Hayden, my ring bearer, on Facebook. Ohmygosh you guys! He's all grown up! He's one handsome dude, too! I'm guessing he's about 18 now!
Like I said, time flies!
Kyle and I are hoping that we'll be able to get out of the house long enough to go and grab some dinner tonight and then next weekend, we're headed up to Victoria, B.C. {the last time we were there together was right after 8th grade...that was quite the trip with our class...Kyle still had cooties then. ;0) } And THEN we're hoping that sometime in the next year we'll be able to get together enough money to head somewhere warm with white sand and tropical fruity drinks. Crossing our fingers!
Because we've been snowed in, I don't even have a card for my Honey. But I did make him pancakes because he IS the Pancake King. {He's obsessed. Seriously.}
This past year has been a tough one. Not for our marriage but just life in general and it looks like this year is starting out a bit rough, so many unknowns right now, but I have to say that I have the perfect partner to go through all of this with. I'm one lucky lady and I'm so happy that I've gotten to spend the past 10 years married to my very best friend.
Sorry for going MIA! Sometimes I just don't feel like writing and before I know it so much time has passed.
Right now we're in the middle of a snow storm. It's been snowing on and off since Saturday, I believe. I'd say we have a little over a foot and I haven't worked all week. Which is nice and all, but I don't get paid when I don't work.
And I've started getting cabin fever.
Kyle is being overprotective and won't let me drive anywhere {I've seriously driven in worse conditions so I'm not really sure what's going on in that head of his. lol}. Except yesterday when I drove just down the hill for my physical therapy appointment. It's literally at the bottom of the hill. I don't even have to go through a light to get there. On my way home, the whole two minutes it takes me, the snow from the roof of my car decided to slide down onto the windshield almost completely blocking my view. Thankfully I was able to get to a side street fairly quickly to wipe it all away before I continued on home.
I was just looking through my photobucket album that automatically loads when I take pictures on my phone and I've taken A LOT of pictures the past few days! LOL Here's just a little bit from the past few days of our adventures. We're getting ready to go back out to the park that's right outside our door to play in the snow with Chewy.
First of all, this sunset picture was taken last Friday. The next day it started snowing!
I hope you've all had an amazing day / weekend celebrating the birth of our Savior with family and friends!
I know that this has been a really challenging year for us and it was so nice to be able to just sit down with all of our families and just share some time together, forgetting all that has gone on for just a bit.
I was up past 3am wrapping gifts and I'm actually surprised that I'm still awake, but it was worth it to wrap the gifts for my family.
Over the past few days I've had quite the comedy of errors while cooking and baking. I thought I just might pull my hair out, but my mistakes actually turned out to be a hit. Go figure. LOL
On Friday we gathered at my aunt and uncles house for my dad's side of the family Christmas. I got to see family that I haven't seen in months, if not since last Christmas. I had Kyle take a picture of my grandma and me. She has Alzheimer's and while she knows who I am right now, I don't know how much longer that part of her memory will last. It's a picture that I'll treasure in years to come, I'm sure.
Saturday, Christmas Eve, I spent the entire day making a trifle.Kyle and I drove separately to his parents because he went golfing so I didn't hold this trifle on the way there. Instead, I barricaded it in the back of my car. Got to the inlaws and it had tipped over. I was so sad! But it ended up not being quite the catastrophe that it looked like at first, thankfully.
At the inlaws we ate, hung out, played a game of "Telephone" but on paper. Never played it before but it was fun and the end result was pretty funny! After that Charlie Brown read us the Christmas story.
Then we opened gifts. Just gotta say that we were beyond spoiled! Definitely don't deserve all that was given to me.
My MIL with one of the gifts "The Kids" gave her.
We gave her the frame for Christmas 2 years ago and we finally filled it this year. ;)
Chewy is such a good sport. We buried him in the remnants of all the gifts.
He says Merry Christmas!
We didn't get home till after midnight and then I still had gifts to wrap. So I stayed up past 3 am, like I already mentioned.
I set my alarm for 7:30 am because we were supposed to be at my sisters at 9 am. I guess I turned my alarm off instead of hitting snooze because before I knew it, I was waking up and it was 8:50. Oops! I sent my sister a text that I had gone to bed at 3am and just woken up and that we'd be there when we got there.
Kyle and I did our Christmas together like we like to do and we took our time.
Chewy was helping. You can see some of the tissue paper hanging out of his mouth. heehee
We eventually made it to my sisters at about 10:45 and we had breakfast and then opened gifts with my mom, sister, BIL and nephews. It was kind of a quick visit with them because they had to move onto her inlaws and we had my dad's house to get to next.
This year for Christmas I made a lot of gifts, which I've never done before. I made my mom, sister, SIL and step-mom jewelry boards. I got the idea from Pinterest. I'd say they were a hit. Yay! I also made my sister three ribbon necklaces. I'll post pics of both this week because I didn't get good pictures of my mom and sister with their gifts.
Evan helping Kingston get the tape undone on one of his gifts. Such a good big brother!
After we left my sisters we went home for a little while and then headed to my dad's house. We nibbled on some food there and waited for my nieces to get there. My step-sister will be going over there tomorrow with her family so we didn't see them for Christmas this year.
My dad always likes to carry around these mason jars filled with ice water, especially in the summer time. When we went to Florida, we walked into The Rainforest Cafe store and saw this and I had to get it. Yeah, it's not a mason jar but it's a frickin huge jug "water bottle". LOL Kyle brought 10 shot glasses home in it. That should give you an idea of just how big it is. ;0)
Not sure if you can really see it, but I feel like I need toothpicks to keep my eyes open at this point.
This was right before we left my dad's house.
We've had a very, very blessed Christmas but I can say that I'm looking forward to getting some sleep now!
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