Holidays

Our Christmas: Just the 2 of Us

Even though we knew Christmas Eve and Christmas Day would be spent back home with our families, we still wanted to start doing our own Christmas traditions. Each night this whole month, Matt has been reading me a Christmas story. Every day last week while we were driving somewhere, I would read aloud from A Christmas Carol. …

Tell-All Tuesday

*I just love this cheesy photo that we took of our celebratory Christmas feast that we had last Friday, just the two of us. We wanted to make sure that “our” Christmas as a couple didn’t get lost amidst all the hoopla of our family affairs, so we set aside Friday night to have a …

Holidays

Triple Christmas

You wanna know one more great thing about being married? The fact that you basically you get the triple Christmas threat: the Christmas celebration together AND the Christmas celebrations of both of your families. It makes me love being married even more. Tonight we’re kicking off “our” Christmas celebration with a roast turkey dinner (courtesy of …

Tuesday Tell-All

*Between me leaving my camera at home and our laptop not working until just now, I didn’t get a chance to blog about our killer weekend full of Christmas celebrating, great food (see pic above), sugar cookie decorating, and way too much Catan playing. If I’m not too tired later, maybe I’ll get around to …

Antsy

As much as I love checking out all the new Christmas decorations at work, I am SO done with this work week. I am, however, beyond relieved that this semester is finally over for both me AND Matt. Just think, in just a few short hours, I’ll be eating a massive dinner at Outback Steakhouse, …