Our FIRST Christmas (married)

Here are some pictures of the house, and our

Christmas decorations...

Our super cute stockings that we
got for $6.00 on black friday!!! 

Our Christmas tree...

Adam's small Christmas village...

Christmas candy dish..

Looking at our kitchen from the living room

Love this card (from Adam's parents)

and it matches the ornaments!

Looking at the dining room...

Living room...

AND NOW: CHRISTMAS EVE & CHRISTMAS!!!!

These are the most delicious and fun Christmas 

cookies ever! They are candy cane sugar

cookies and they actually have a peppermint flavor!

You make a normal sugar cookie dough, 

but add a secret ingredient (not really) of peppermint

extract along with vanilla. Then split the

dough in half, and die one half red. Next, take 2 tsp 

of the white dough and 2 tsp of the red.

Roll them both into a 4 inch string, and then twist 

them together. Place on a cookie sheet, 

bend one end ( make sure it is a big bend cause

if not the hook will attach to the cane), and

cook in a 400 degree oven for 8 to 10 minutes.

YUM!!!!

Us in front of our tree...forgive the light lines..

they are from the coffee table :)

Traditional building of  a gingerbread house...

My super cute salt and pepper shaker...

The final product (after much stickiness and snacking)

 Christmas morning...opening the stockings FIRST!

This is what we pulled out of them!!! 

And we both had a $10 limit......  ;)

Next: BREAKFAST!

I made us each a personal breakfast casserole.

They were cute, DELICIOUS, and we didn't have

left overs (which we had no room to hold).

Present Time..... forgive most of the faces  ;)

We got up at 7:00 am to accomplish

all our Christmas morning things before church

which was at 11:00. 

After church, we had Kyle and Kristy over for

lunch and the afternoon. This

is the only picture I have of them unfortunately.

You can also see the living room :)

Lunch is complete and I look worn out...

It wasn't that bad. We had potatoes au gratin, green

bean casserole, stuffing casserole, cresant rolls,

and a delicious ham. Kyle and Kristy provided the 

beautiful ham for us to cook up!!!

We had a WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS! 

The services at church made it

even more special. They were such a blessing

and everything was beautiful!

Love My Husband!

Isn't It Amazing

I absolutely LOVE this song! So powerful and 

thought provoking. It is truly AMAZING

how the Lord chose to come to earth, the King of all 

the Universe. He could have done it ANY 

way, yet he chose to come as a simple little baby.

What a Savior!!!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanksgiving Day!

We had a wonderful break! Adam was off 

for the whole weekend so we had a blast...

Just us....

Our Decorated table ready for the FOOD  :)

This is our "Thankful Board". There are six shapes:

Two leaf designs, a pumpkin, acorn, flower, and apple.

There is one shape for each day of November

until Thanksgiving Day. Each Day we wrote what we

were thankful for. This made us realize how

many blessings God gives us each day and how often

we forget to be thankful for them. It's amazing 

to look back over it and see all that had happened in 

those 24 Days!

These were so good and so much fun to make together...

They are pecan oatmeal snow cookies. We sprinkled

sugar on top and grated a hershey's chocolate mint bar on top.

YUM!!!

 

The food is done!!!!!

We have: Tomato basil garlic turkey (center dish), 

stuffing, loaded mashed potatoes, green 

bean casserole, roasted sweet potato casserole (can't see it),

gravy, rolls, and the best of all....PUMPKIN PIE!

Here is the sweet potatoes....OUR FAVORITE!

Digging in!

Our evening walk...to work off all we had eaten  ;-)

Everything turned out wonderful!

So much to be thankful for!!!!

First Apartment

Here are the pictures of our first apartment.

Forgive all the different wall colors; 

They definitely do not match  :-)

 Our Front door / entrance into living room...

Standing in front of the door; our book 

shelf, coat closet, and back of couch.

Standing at front door looking at the living room.

the open door to the right is the entrance

to the kitchen...

Our table and decorations (set up for 

Thanksgiving Day)

Standing in front of table; other part of the kitchen...

The door post at the right leads to our

bedroom....

Our bedroom...

Standing in bedroom, looking at bathroom door (left)

and Kitchen / Living room (right)...

The Bathroom....

Although it was small and the decorating 

was a challenge, it had its cute

aspects  :-), BUT we are SO THANKFUL

to be in our NEW apartment!!!