Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Saturday, November 28, 2009

Saturday, day and night

    I spent the majority of the day today relaxing and doing errands. I got a lot accomplished and I feel great about it. My wonderful friend Adria was also in town today from Los Angeles, so we had a fun time hanging out for awhile this evening! She came over and we chit chatted for a bit, and then her, Hank and I walked over to the light parade. In our usual small town fashion it wasn't the fanciest parade, but it was definitely cute and festive! After we got sick of standing around in the cold we went over and got dinner at Hugo's. Delicious!

    In other news, I am heading to bed now. I'm so proud of myself, as it's only 12:30am! I've been going to bed well past 2am lately and that is something I definitely do not want to get in the habit of doing. Yuck. I really prefer to go to bed early and get up early! Tomorrow morning the gym opens at 9am and my plan is to be there when the doors open. Goodnight everyone!

    Here are the few photos from this evening!

    LA and Prescott

    Hank, Adie and me!

    Light Parade, the only photo that turned out from the parade, oops!

    my bowl of beans! YUM
    Hugo's- my delicious bowl 'o beans and veggies

    Hugo's- tamale plate

    yes, this is a snowman made out of popcorn! :)
    Yes this is a popcorn ball snowman!

    homemade treats!

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Friday, November 27, 2009

Thank goodness it's Friday

    First of all, thanks so much for all of the comments on my last post...it's nice to know that a lot of other people feel the same way! I really, really appreciate all of the super thoughtful responses. I'm definitely not going to stop blogging any time soon- so many of my far away friends and family read this blog and it would be a shame to close off this wonderful form of communication. Besides, I enjoy it way too much! And plus, once we start having children I am absolutely going to use this blog to document every little bit of that new chapter in our lives. It's such a great creative outlet and I love it too much to stop! So I am definitely here to stay, I just had been questioning things...and I'm sure I always will, but that's the way life goes.

    Today was a perfect, perfect day. Hank and I lounged around in bed until 10am or so (so insane for me to sleep in that late!) and it was so relaxing and much-needed. Once we got up he had to run to HOTW's practice space to get their merch so he could do a shirt count before their webstore's Black Friday sale began. In the meantime I made myself a delicious breakfast and caught up on some reading. When Hank got home we proceeded to be even lazier and watch The Biggest Loser for hours! We watched the most recent episode and then the previous player update episode. I must have cried about ten times during that one- it was so emotional! Once we decided to get up and at 'em, we headed to Target to get our Christmas stuff. We usually don't do a big tree, and sometimes no tree at all, but this year we decided to actually decorate and pick up a bigger tree. We ended up getting one that was on sale at Target for Black Friday- usually $60 and we got it for $25, not bad! Hank and I are kind of weird- I've mentioned this before, but we both really don't like cluttery things that don't match or knick-knacky things. I definitely think other people's trees with handmade and fun ornaments are adorable, and I seriously admire other people's cute stuff so much, but for some reason I really gravitate towards the opposite end of the spectrum in my own little bubble. I grew up in a house where we had so many different ornaments for every occasion- ones we'd made for my parents, gifts from my Mom's students, random Hallmark ones, etc...and I always loved it. But in our own house we aren't into that whatsoever. Hank grew up in a home where they've always had 15 foot insane trees decorated all one color and perfect. I'm happy he still likes that look and doesn't want to do the opposite of what he always had. I realize that when we have kids we'll probably have to get over our tendencies and stray away from our love of a simply decorated tree, but maybe we can let the kids have their own crazy trees in their rooms! haha. But really, I'm getting ahead of myself here. So anyway we got the tree, picked up some other random things, went to Micheal's to pick up some frames for new prints, then Barnes and Noble to get some new reading material. I didn't get anything (other than a million titles to request from the library!) but Hank picked out The End of Faith by Sam Harris. It looks really interesting and he's excited to read it. After our mini-Christmas shopping excursion we came home and set everything up! I'm definitely excited for the holiday season and I love that our tree is up and looking good. Stoked. So that was our night! As soon as I finish this I am heading to the gym and then spending the night reading and relaxing! Tomorrow Prescott is having a light parade downtown so we will be enjoying that festivity with some friends and hopefully mugs of hot chocolate! I hope all of you had a great Friday.

    Photos from this evening:

    putting on the tree skirt
    putting on the tree skirt

    ornament

    cutie

    not posing at all, I swear ;)

    putting our little star on

    single thumbs up? hah

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Today's festivities

    Today was a great day! I woke up early and made Hank cinnamon rolls, and I love that he woke up to the house smelling so delicious! We spent the morning watching the parade and then Hank watched some football, and in the afternoon we headed over to Hank's Mom's to celebrate our second Thanksgiving. It was such a fun day filled with great food and family. I didn't take too many photos, as I was busy most of the day, but here are the few I took. I hope all of you had a fabulous time!

    our house, leaving to head over to Hank's Mom's
    heading over to Hank's Mom's

    Hank, super tired! Mid yawn ;)
    tired boy!

    GJ and Uncle Don

    It was such a pretty sunshiney day!
    sunshiney day

    before the kitchen got crazy!
    before the madness!

    setting up the table
    the setup

    Hank's tofurkey
    Tofurkey

    spinach, mmm
    spinach...mmm

    my sis-in-law Brooke and me :)
    sister in laws!

    Hank and his sister
    brother/sister

    she loves her Dad!
    she loves her Dad

    front yard 2

    seriously SO sunny out...even though it was cold
    soo sunny out!

    the whole table
    the whole table

    Happy Thanksgiving! :)
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Happy Early Thanksgiving!

    This year we did an early Thanksgiving at my parents' home, which I loved, because it's nice to have an amazing meal tonight, recover, and then do it again Thursday! We actually have to do it twice more because Hank has two sets of parents. Today was a great day. The food was awesome, it was wonderful to spend the weekend with my entire family and laugh and smile and have a grand old time.

    Here are some photos-

    portrait by Hank ;)
    "portrait by Hank" hah

    cooking in the kitchen

    my Mom (the is the first Thanksgiving in years that she has been healthy. I am so happy about that)
    Mom!

    my Dad! He is also doing really well :).
    Dad!

    Lauren and Abe's new dog Rex! They rescued him from the pound and he is about 2 years old...and the biggest sweetie pie.
    Rex

    Simba...the only cat who will ever have a place in my heart. He is the cutest little kitty ever.
    Simba

    Tofurkey!
    Tofurkey

    real turkey!
    turkey turkey

    Nanny <33
    Nanny "thumbs up"

    Abe!
    Abe

    the lovebirds
    Abe and Lauren

    sisters
    sisters!

    Mom, Laur and me

    3 generations
    3 generations

    me :)

    Nanny's famous apple pie. It's seriously the BEST.
    Nanny's famous apple pie

    Hank loves pie!
    Hank loves pie!

    I love pie!
    I LOVE PIE MORE

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