Thursday, January 3, 2013

Texas Christmas

We spent Christmas in Texas this year with my family. We were there for about 2 weeks and we were able to do a lot of fun things while there.
Highlights:
Advent Candle
Chris spending Christmas with us
White Christmas
Ross Perot Science Museum
Family Pictures
Faldmo Wedding
Seeing Caiti and Dono
Loving on Bear cat
Playing Zero and Logo every night
Dating Matt 


Homemade gifts for the sisters- Painted Corkboards
Jessi's

Allie's

Breanne's

On Christmas Eve there were thunderstorms all night so bear didn't sleep much,so on Christmas he was so tired and just let Matt hold him most of the morning!

Santa came!

Matt,mom,Chris,Jessi,and Allie

Opening their presents from us!


new sweater!

new bowls

bear sleeping under all the wrapping paper

The boys arrive and are excited to see uncle natt



The snow!


Perot Museum



Matt and I loved all the gems!

Gold and quartz 


Our friend Samantha took our family pictures,but while we wait for her to do her magic. We took some of our own and since Andrew was visiting and is not family, Allie wanted some pictures of them together.

Loving that necklace Jessi let me borrow

Love how the donkeys are checking them out 

At the end of our street there is this fenced in area with wild life.

We loved Chick fil a's new peppermint shake


My best friend

Caiti and Dono

Caiti's birthday!

Ashley and Chase's pre wedding dinner

Spring Creek BBQ

Downtown Dallas

Candy from Santa

Loved having the fireplace on the whole break and all the new stockings

Dallas has some good lights


Christmas Breakfast

Sweet Tuck




Homemade Mexican food- street tacos

Chars cheesing

Tiger decided to take a nap on Matt's lap and he is NOT a nice lap kitty. SO surprising!

Playing at the park

Sisters on Christmas Eve

Sisters Date- lunch and shopping



6 layer dip we made for nye

midnight kiss

first picture of 2013

allie and andy

catssssss

at the airport(before all the mishaps)

avocado fries at otb


12 Dates of Christmas

This year I decided that I wanted to start a new tradition for the Christmas season. One blogger I like had done the 12 dates of Christmas before,so I thought I would try it out this year. It was really great planning the ideas and going on the dates! Even though we changed some of the dates it was still fun. I enjoyed making time everyday to do a quality activity with Matt and it really did prepare us for Christmas. I cannot wait until next year to see what Matt comes up with.

The "planned" Dates
 Date 1:Making cinnamon ornaments

 We should have sprayed the pan
The ones we could get off the pan



Date 2: Holiday Baking

PB cookies with a kiss,Buckeyes,Peppermint puppy chow, dipped strawberries,and fun fetti cakies

Date 3: Dinner and a movie

Date 4: Chipotle and Temple Square Lights




Bonus: We decided to open our gifts to each other since we were leaving for Texas the next day.

I got a snack display (Matt made) and a large mixing bowl. We try to do a homemade and a bought gift every year for each other.

I made a silhouette of one of our engagement pictures and gave him a cupcake shirt
 
Date 5: Lauren's Wedding
photo booth at the wedding


Date 6: Decorated my family Christmas Tree
Date 7: Saw the Hobbit and ate at On the border
Date 8: Read Christmas Stories( The night before Christmas and the Gift of the Magi)
Date 9: Dallas Temple Date


Date 10: Faldmo Wedding


Date 11: Holidays at the DSO Concert



Date 12: Looking at Christmas Lights