Not Embarrassed Yet...

I'm dedicating this post to Stefani, because she inspired it by posting pictures of her fabulous choir dresses.
At my sister's birthday dinner this last weekend I brought up the pictures and it got us talking not just about choir dresses but prom dresses too. Andi thought it would be fun to see every ones, so here are mine in all their glory:

(Left to Right: Junior Prom, Junior Prom as a Senior and Senior Ball)

Unfortunately, the picture of my choir dress from high school wouldn't upload right but I'll try and paint a visual. All black, floor length, short sleeves, with a sweetheart neckline and just a plain old zipper up the back, no fancy giant bow or anything. I don't think that enough time has past yet for me to be embarrassed by the dresses. However, looking back now I probably should have rethought the dates. I hope you enjoy and that this inspires you to post your own.

The Many Faces of Nick...

I've been meaning to blog about this for awhile but never got around to it. Truth be told Nick probably wouldn't be mad if I just forgot about it, but where's the fun in that? A couple of weeks ago I was married to a mountain man...true story. Nick had been letting not only his hair grow but also the beard. Luckily, after awhile he decided it was time to stop looking like a crazy person. Exhibit A:

Before

One of the reasons that I love Nick so much is because he can be wonderfully silly. He decided that he would document the process and try out some new facial hair styles along the way. He's done this before but we didn't take pictures so I was excited to share not only the silly side of my husband but show off the awesome styles he tried out this time around.

My personal favorite is the Irish fighter picture in the middle....I love my crazy husband...

Valentine's Day

Nick and I had a great low key Valentine's weekend. We started early due to the fact that Valentine's day was on Sunday this year. On Friday after work Nick surprised me with dinner and a movie. Dinner was a little bit of a disappointment for the both of us because Chili's changed their menu and took my favorite meal off of it but the movie was pretty cute. We saw Valentine's Day and I think that Taylor Swift was my favorite part because she was just so ridiculous in the best way possible.

On Saturday I watched all the kids with Megan while the rest of the family helped Andi's in laws move. It was so nice that the weather cooperated so that we could spend most of the day outside. On Sunday we invited Bubba and Megan over for dinner, chocolate fondue, romantic comedies and the wii. We had a lot of fun and hope that everyone else had a great day too.

Fondue and the best candy EVER (given to me by a friend at work ♥)

The boys playing Mario Kart

And since it was Valentine's Day the very first picture Nick and I ever took together...♥

Happy Belated New Year

Our New Year's Eve was low key but a lot of fun. Nick and I went over to our friend's Stacy and Wayne's house for games, really delicious food and a soda tasting. Chad and Brianna came as well but we were really sad that Erin and Miranda had to stay home because of an ear infection. We played mormon bridge, kings gone wild and my favorite Clue, The Office Edition. I'm still confused how Jim killed Tobey with a ream of paper. I brought over my fondue pot and Stacy and Wayne brought a bunch of different sodas and had us taste them and try and guess what flavor they were. I learned that chocolate soda is gross and sangria taste like grapes gone bad even when it is non-alcoholic. Surprising, we all made it to midnight and watched the ball drop. We had so much fun and are so grateful that Stacy and Wayne let us come over and play. I didn't take many pictures and by the time I did nobody was really at their best anymore but here are the pictures I took anyway.


Wayne, Stacy and new baby Hayden


Nicholas and Chad

We hope everyone else had a great start to the New Year as well.

Christmas Time Was Here...

We started our Christmas celebrating on Christmas Eve by heading over to Nick's Grandma's house for dinner. We had a great time playing a game, eating good food, catching up with each other, and exchanging gifts. Braelynn, our niece, made out like a bandit but I think that she may have enjoyed the paper and boxes more than her presents. It so fun to see how big she's getting. My favorite part of the night is a tie between Nick and his brother discussing what Barbie's little sister was named and Nick putting together all of Braelynn's new toys including her bike.

On Christmas morning Nick and I woke up and looked through our stockings and opened the few presents we had under the tree. Nick indulged me this year and filled my stocking with tons of silly things including a back massager and three Tim Burton movies...I was wonderfuly spoiled. We started a tradition on our first Christmas that I buy Nick a Christmas book each year. This year I was excited to buy a children's book. We are now the proud owners of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and I think next year I might go for the Polar Express. After we opened everything we headed over to my parent's for breakfast and more gift opening...seriously spoiled. Dad then took us to the movie's followed by challenging us to some Wii bowling. We had a great dinner with most of my family and then headed home to end the night with The Nightmare Before Christmas.

We had a great christmas this year and can't wait for the new year. We hope that you are having an equally great holiday season.

My Tim Burton Christmas

I not so secretly love Tim Burton. Nick would tell you it's because I like strange, weird, or unusual things and that's mostly true. I think it's amazing that someone's mind is that creative no matter how crazy it is. My mom, knowing this, bought Nick a ornament this year of the Corpse Bride and my little sister bought me the coolest mugs EVER of Jack Skellington. The odd thing is that as much as I enjoy the weirdness I didn't actually own any of the movies. However, on Friday my head teacher bought me the Nightmare Before Christmas for Christmas and then I came home to a disappointed husband who informed me that he had also purchased it for my stocking. Luckily, my head teacher kept the receipt so now I can return one and maybe get The Corpse Bride too. Best Christmas ever so far...

Oh, and not having to do with Tim Burton....my husband is awesome and bought me two new pairs of shoes yesterday, which if you've seen my shoes lately you'd know it was long overdue.... I am eternally grateful.

O Christmas Tree

The tradition continued this year, busted knee and all, to take the trip down to Apple Hill and find this year's Christmas tree. My dad started the tradition a couple of years ago and now every year I look forward to the first Saturday in December for breakfast and the tree hunt. The place that we usually go to for breakfast was closed this year so we went down the street a little bit and found Kathee's Cafe which was just as good and I personally think had better service. Nick loved the "Jeet Yet" sign and laughed because it reminded him of the south. Also the picture of Nick below was taken by Jill...not too bad.

After breakfast we headed down to the Christmas tree farm and took some pictures of the families. Unfortunately the crazy man that took our family picture cut out Mom and most of Dad on my camera.

After the pictures we all went our separate ways to find the perfect tree for each household. Nick and I didn't get a tree here but it was still fun to help everyone else find theirs. Below is some of my FAVORITE pictures from the trip.

We had so much fun spending time with the family. It wore Nick out a little but that just meant to that we got to take a nap when we got home. :)