Best of Christmas

Unfortunately another Christmas has come and gone... I always love seeing Christmas come but I hate seeing it be over. It is definitely the most wonderful time of the year and by far my favorite! But it did leave us with a few epic memories. In review, the best of Christmas 2010:

1. My dad's festive foot cast
2. Cleaning the church on Christmas Eve
3. Scavenger hunting for presents (sorry Ashlie)
4. "If Santa comes and I miss him because of you, this Christmas is over!"
5. "It's an... empty shoe box?... with an IOU... really?!"
6. Josh Groban's I'll Be Home for Christmas, and yes... mom crying
7. Wii bowling and Just Dance (nice moves Greg!)
8. Shopping with the nephews (read: them eating McDonald's while you do the shopping)

So much food, family, and fun. I LOVE Christmas!!!

Christmas Time is Here

It's the most wonderful time of the year and so deserves the best treats of the year!

Step #1: Borrow a cute idea from here

Step #2: Get the Goods
Step #3: Dip in Chocolate... what else is there?!

Step #4: Arrange in a Mouthwatering Display complete with Holiday Card!
And voila!!!

It's Not Easy Being Green

Well, we decided that the awful pink paint in our apartment had more than worn out its welcome (if it ever had one) and definitely needed to go! And Tim, being the handy man that he is, jumped at the opportunity for a do it yourself home project. So, I picked out the paint, Tim did the work, and Ta Da! It's like a whole new apartment! We decided on green, a very lovely shade if I do say so myself.

It looks something like this,

and went on something like this,

But for some reason all the pictures turn out like this.

Not attractive! It really doesn't look that green though, and it feels way better than the pink! We never actually officially got permission to do this, but I think it's safe to say they won't mind the improvement.

sick sick sick...

For Thanksgiving this year Tim and I had an awesome time with his family. Everyone congregated in Boise, and besides the fact that they don't watch the Macy's Day parade (still troubled by that one) and us finishing last in the ping pong bracket, being home for the holiday was fantastic! Plenty of good food and good fun!!

I did however manage to catch a nasty case of strep throat... I don't know what it is about me, I'm an illness magnet. I am fairly acquainted with strep throat (read: I get it all the time), but it never gets less miserable to have. And I have a 20 page paper due on Friday. So, unlike last year's swine flu, I went to the doctor, am now 2 days into a 10 day round of penicillin, and I can swallow again mostly pain free. Thank goodness for modern medicine!

Huge shout out to Tim! That wonderful man picked me up last Sunday morning after a 12 hour night shift at the hospital and let me sleep while he drove us to Boise, and then yesterday he made me a bed in the back of the car and let my 102-degree feverish self sleep while he drove all the way back home. Probably not his favorite trip ever, but I am sure grateful!

Halloween

Well Halloween costuming this year was a bust... we went as a stressed out nursing student and a lonely husband. There's just something about no sleep, 12 hour hospital days, and living in textbooks that hasn't really put me in a very festive mood I guess. Unfortunately Tim being off track and ready for some holiday fun makes my nonfestiveness look even more lame. Poor guy has been practically wifeless all semester. A month and a half down, 2 more to go!

We did manage to get into the Halloween spirit a little bit though, treats, a movie and pumpkin carving, not too bad! Never mind that we were almost 2 weeks late...

Tim's pumpkin turned out really cool! Mine would have, but I got too frustrated and it started failing instead. So I decided to let it go and leave it with the happy image of what could have been.

Nobody dips a caramel apple like I do though, Amen.

Tim's 23!

Tim turned 23 yesterday, he's getting to be such an old man! Since his birthday was on a Sunday the lucky little ducky got to celebrate twice! We spent all day Saturday up by the lake, even though it was chilly (read: freezing cold!)...

Red Robin for dinner that night...

And breakfast in bed with homemade fondue for dinner Sunday night. Not too bad birthday boy!