Phone Photo Friday :)

eally I have nothing important to say, but I do have many new photos on my phone so I am going to participate in Phone Photo Friday once again. I am screaming TGIF internally today, as I am so ready for the weekend! I really look forward to sleeping in on Saturday's and giving my brain some rest after the work week! We are planning to go to a Christmas Festival and then an event called Holy Walk Saturday night. I will try and take pictures and work on a post about that next week :) Sunday is church and laundry and then Christmas Caroling, which I am super excited about! I don't recall ever going Christmas Caroling...maybe when I was a little girl..oh AND we might get more snow on Saturday.  They are predicting a couple of inches, so we will see!

 I finally got our honeymoon pictures into my collage frame. The old pictures that inhabited this frame were from a cruise to Jamaica with my Mom and Grandma.

 This was ice that covered my car one day last week. I left work, and after almost busting my butt in the company parking lot I made it to my car, which looked like it was from the North Pole. Ice and icicles everywhere!

Updated wall in the dining room, I LOVE the shelf :) Thank you Hobby Lobby!

Christmas is here!

Self portrait taken while driving to the Christmas tree lot. Had to send Mom and Dad a weekly picture. Plus I wanted to show them my new sweater too :) Yay for kill two birds with one stone!

SNOW! It snowed all day on Wednesday and I had the excitement of a child (don't hate!) I would periodically run to the window at work to check the progress and see if it was still snowing! The grass is now covered and I think it is beautiful!

Hope everyone had a great weekend, see ya next week!

{part four}

On Saturday, we stayed home all day and it was wonderful! I don't think that we have stayed home like that since moving in! I got a lot accomplished at the apartment and we both got some rest too. Just what we needed :)

Sunday we did some running around and errands after church, but what is exciting is that we got to go to the tree farm and pick out a Christmas wreath. They all smelled good, but I picked the one that smelled the strongest!

The finished wreath hanging on the inside of our door! It smells so good :)

Once we made it home from all our running around, we unloaded the car (two trips) and put all the groceries away. After dinner the Colts were playing and on a station that we get with our bunny ears, so The Mr. was excited about that. While he was watching the game (that I don't really care about) I was in the kitchen working on:

Gingerbread Men :)

Getting my work area ready!

So, we do not have a rolling pin...I improvised and used a glass. It totally worked for the project at hand but maybe Santa can bring me a rolling pin ;)

I used the cookie cutter off of the Kitchen Christmas Tree...clever, right?

It is working!

Don't hate on my tie-die shirt. I love it and wear it ALL.THE.TIME!

Ready to be baked...yummy!

And they are done...the kitchen smelled so yummy!

Some are plain, and some have Christmas colored sugar sprinkles on them. They look pretty in my display on the counter!

He approves...even though when I started he told me that he really does not like gingerbread cookies. I guess I changed his mind :)

After baking fun I did have a mess to clean up and then I became captivated by the newest book I am reading from the library. Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury is really good...so good that I had a hard time putting it down at midnight on Sunday night! I can't wait to get further into it! As you can tell, we really had a great, relaxing weekend. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving. We are blessed!

{part three}

Turkey Day was finally here :) We had a great holiday with family. The Mr. and I spent Thanksgiving at his parents house with his brother and sister's families too. We slept in on Thursday (soooo nice!) and got up and started getting ready slowly while watching/listening to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. *sidenote: the announcer said that Snoopy was the main attraction of this years parade and I disagree, the main attraction is and always will be Santa and his sleigh at the very end. Okay, that is the end of the rant. We had so much food, but it was all soooo good :) After dinner we started mapping out the plan for the Michigan City Outlet Malls and determining what stores we must go to! I love Black Friday shopping, and shopping at an outlet mall was awesome. Us girls had a great time together and the deals that we snagged were pretty incredible. 40% off everything at Eddie Bauer? YES PLEASE!

When we made it back to my apartment around lunch time on Friday, we were all exhausted! I did not realize that the parking lot was icey, or maybe I did and was just too tired to react. Anyhow, I stepped out of the car and busted my butt. On ice. In the parking lot. GREAT. All I could do was laugh about it, because really, what else can you do? Luckily nothing was hurt and I was fine. Then something else happened...

I was walking in to the stairs to go up to our 3rd floor apartment when a man greeted me. He did not greet me with a polite 'hello' or anything of the like. It was more like, who are you and where do you live? Umm excuse me sir? He proceeds to tell me that he believes he lives below us and he has been beating on the walls when we make too much noise. Oh yes mister, I have heard you beating while I am blow-drying my hair or vacuuming. Are you serious? Keep in mind, my arms are loaded down with bags from shopping and I had just fallen on ice in the parking lot. I wanted to be at home and in bed...his conversation with me continues. He wants to talk to me and my husband because we are too loud and it distracts him. Let me tell you, Stephen is such a noise maker. We blare our stereo and deliberately beat pots and pans for our own musical pleasure. NOT. I dismiss the gentleman and say that I will tell my husband. I am thinking the conversation is over and I am dismissed to leave...NO. He then tells me that he saw me fall in the parking lot and walks away. Could he have asked if I was okay? YES. Could he have asked if I needed help with my bags? YES. (not that I would have taken him up on that). Anyways, I do believe our downstairs neighbor would be happier in a retirement village or community, since my blow-dryer is clearly too loud and a distraction for him. Sir in apartment 2201, we will try to keep it down!

After the lovely encounter, I was steaming and called Stephen right away. By the time he got home from his shopping I had showered and was almost asleep on the sofa watching It's A Wonderful Life. I was reminded that this is a wonderful life, even when I have to deal with people like our neighbor who make it so hard to love them, but I will continue to try. That is all I can do!

Oh, we ordered pizza for dinner on Friday because we were both tired and neither of us felt like cooking. It was delicious :) Pizza delivery and a movie with The Mr. was just what I needed. Well, that and sleep :)