It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

To say that we are excited for our first Christmas in our new house may be a bit of an understatement! We've never had the opportunity to put up Christmas lights, and we've never had so much extra space to decorate! Here are some pictures of our preparations:

Jeremy soon realized that putting up Christmas lights wasn't as fun as he was hoping! And we kind of ran out of lights for the tree. haha :)

Decorating our mantle is one of my favorite things to do! I also love how my wreath turned out! Oh, and Jeremy cut out that deer for me and spray painted it sparkly gold. He's so good to indulge my crafting addiction.

Just a few of our Christmas decorations.

 We also had some huge snow and ice storms move through our area recently. The snow was beautiful but inconvenient at times. My work closed for two half days because of the weather and Jeremy learned the hard way that an icy driveway can cause some nasty falls.

I was having fun in the snow meanwhile Jeremy was doing all the grunt work. I knew I loved him!

While we are a little disappointed that we won't be making it out to Idaho or California this Christmas to spend it with family we are excited to have our first Christmas with just our little family of two. It will force us to come up with some of our own traditions and will allow us more stress-free time to focus on the Savior and the true meaning of Christmas.

Some other recent happenings in our lives are:

-I got released as a ward missionary and called as an Activity Days leader

-We were on the ward Christmas party committee. The party was yesterday and was a success.

-Jeremy finished his third semester of dental school with all A's and B's (he's such a smarty)

-We got new cell phone's and phone numbers (email us or Facebook message us if you would like our new Kentucky numbers)

-We are doing some of the finishing touches on our house renovations including new carpet for the spare bedrooms and painting the last two bedrooms. (Almost done!)

We hope all of our friends and family are enjoying this holiday season and we wish everyone a very merry Christmas!

One Spoiled Girl

I had so much to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. It just so happened that our five year wedding anniversary fell on Thanksgiving day this year. It was such a blessing for it to fall on a holiday because it distracted us from the fact that we were away from family. And let me just tell you I am one spoiled girl! The day before our anniversary I came home to a big surprise. There was a note on the door telling me to follow the footsteps to find the reason why Jeremy loved me so much. Our house was filled with little printouts of feet in different colors that each led me to different places in the house. At the end of each path there was a reason why Jeremy loved me and a gift to go along with it. For example, one stop was "I love you because you find the beauty in life" and the gifts were a tripod for my camera and the Photoshop Lightroom 5 program.  Yes I know, he's amazing! How did I get so lucky to marry him?

Thanksgiving/ Anniversary morning we relaxed and watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Ever since I was little I've loved watching the parade, and I think Jeremy got a little in to it this year too.

We also decided that since it was just the two of us and neither one of us wanted to spend a lot of time cooking and then cleaning up on our anniversary, that we would go out to eat for the first time on Thanksgiving! We went to the Cracker Barrel who was serving an amazing Thanksgiving meal and let me tell you it was one of the best meals I've ever had. If we ever do it again though we will make sure to call in advance so we can have reservations. There were so many people there we had to wait about an hour to get seated. We had fun though and just played an intense round of Scrabble on our phones to help the time pass (I won!). :)

It's hard to tell but the entire shop was filled with people waiting to be seated! I never knew so many people ate out for Thanksgiving!

After dinner we went and watched Catching Fire at the theater. LOVE that movie! All in all we had a wonderful Thanksgiving/ Anniversary and I couldn't think of anyone I'd have rather spent the day with. I'm so grateful for Jeremy! I love him more than words can express! We've had so many adventures together over the last five years and I'm so excited for all the many adventures to come.

We hope all of our friends and family had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well!