Good Morning loves! I tend to go MIA when I head home for the holidays I’ve realized. I don’t plan on it, it just kind of happens. Spending time with family and friends back home just doesn’t leave much time for the blog and I’m kind of out of my normal schedule so I don’t think about it as much.
I’ve been having a wonderful time at home! I just love the holidays, don’t you!? Right before I left Starkville, a sweet friend gave me this Christmas Card which was hand made and perfect for me!
Friday night was spent having Christmas with Nick’s dad and family. Everyone got some really great gifts! Nick got some new disc golf discs which was perfect because just this past week we lost 2 of them in the lake at our disc golf course and then he also got 2 movies – The dictator and The Campaign! One of his sisters got some of that crackle fingernail polish (I had never used it), but I had some holiday nails going on with red nails and one accent silver nail, so her crackle polish was silver and we decided to try it on my red nails. Kathryn and I had some fun with that. That’s one of those headscratchers in her hair.
Saturday I went with a sweet friend to try on wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses. First one out of the gate, she found the perfect wedding dress!! It was so great! She looked stunning and beautiful and I’m so excited to be a part of her day! I also found my bridesmaid dress. She is doing same fabric and color, but different styles so I found one that I liked, which was NOT strapless because that’s basically the only type of bridesmaids dress I own (I’ve been in 5 weddings so far!)
That afternoon I went and saw This is 40 which was definitely NOT as good as I would have hoped. Then we spent some time with precious friends for dinner. Matt was making this avacodo salsa and was chopping up all the ingredients to go into a blender… it took him a little while to realize that the things didn’t need chopped because they were about to be blended. It was pretty funny! You can see all the tiny little pieces of cilantro chopped up down there on the bottom haha.
Yesterday wasn’t too eventful, I got some raking done, which I LOVE… I know, I’m really wierd for it, but it’s just a lot of fun to me and it’s excercise that you see instant improvement from because your yard looks so good! My sisters hate me for it though because I always drag them out and my dad is always on my side, so they get forced against their will to join in all the fun!
So that has been my weekend in a nutshell and today I plan on doing MORE raking and going to the Christmas Eve service and then tonight my family will open one present and have dinner together. It’s always a tradition and I love it!! Then tomorrow we will wake up early, have some delicious breakfast, start a fire, have some hot chocolate and open all of our gifts! I’m so excited for everyone to see what I got them!
I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! I’m going to try to get on the blog tomorrow and post something too. I need to work on being more present when I’m not actually at my own home.
Will you be going to a Christmas Eve service tonight?
What traditions do you have for Christmas Eve or Christmas Morning?
Have you finished all your Christmas shopping yet or will you be one of those people out today?
I’m bummed to hear that you weren’t a fan of the “This is 40” movie – it looks pretty good!
Merry Christmas!