December weekends

Hey guys! We hope you enjoyed our Christmas Home Tour. Today I am trying to get you all caught up on our life lately! As you know, my phone was broken for a while so I don't have any pictures from our fun trip back to Nebraska for Thanksgiving. We did some Black Friday shopping-well looking, mostly. We headed into Kohl's and the check out line literally wrapped around THE ENTIRE store!! I helped host a bridal shower for one of my friends. We had tons of fun, and she got some amazing gifts! We headed back to Arizona and back to real life. The weather dropped significantly and has been a little chilly. It has since warmed back up. Last weekend was busy, busy for us! We spent Friday night celebrating our favorite little two year old's birthday! We love living across the street from such great friends!

Can you tell she is loved?!? She got SSOOO many presents!

She LOVED unwrapping her presents!

Here she is putting on her tiara we got her as part of a princess costume.

She even started bringing over her own presents.

Hanging out with their fam!

She was loving her new kitchen!

She did take a minute to read a new book.

But then she got this car, and holy wow! She was in love! I got to drive her around the house for a while!

Abby loves mermaids so this was the perfect cake for her!

After the party we headed back home to finish decorating cookies for our first holiday boutique for our Cookie Pie business! So much frosting!!

Matt got tired really fast. Here he was showing off his "new" lanyard to hang his large iphone around his neck.

The bases were frosted!

Then the decorating began! I love this part! 

A few of our finished products!

We were up until 2 AM finishing things up! We arrived Saturday morning to see a nice big logo of our company on the sign!

We had our own little check out lane set up to try to gain a few extra clients on their way out the door!

Our table was all set up and ready to go!

We were overtired, but had the best time together! Matt had an awesome idea to have a page for testimonials after shoppers tried our samples. It has been so much fun reading through everyone's comments!

We had to leave the boutique early to head to a baby shower for some of our other neighbors. They had such a cute theme! They even did a photo booth!

If you haven't had the opportunity to do a photo booth with Matt, you are seriously missing out!

Sunday would have been a great day to relex, but we had more fun things to do! We put up our new chalkboard sign and baked Christmas cookies!!

I love Decembers!! Come back next week to see about another busy weekend of ours as well as our Christmas letter!

Christmas Decor 2016

Hi friends! I am back sharing our Christmas decorations today! *If you are here for our Christmas letter, come back next week!!* I was so excited to decorate this year but held off until Thanksgiving. In the mean time, I bought a few extra decorations!

As usual, our entry looks pretty much the same.

However, I wanted to start collecting Department 56 villages so my mom gave me one last year for Christmas.

I love it! The area that is lit up is a dance studio so you can watch the dancing partners twirl around.

We love our tall tree!

We always have a blast putting up our ornaments because we try to always buy one when we are on vacation. We added several to our tree this year! Here are some of my favorites: Key West sand dollar, pink ball, glass hot air balloon, 

red 'B', and Mickey Mouse.

A few Christmas pillows in our living room.

I found this one on clearance last year after Christmas at Hobby Lobby.

The area under our TV is growing!

Last year I also mentioned I did not have a big nativity set so my mom started me with this one. I LOVE IT!!

So dark in this corner, but I love our "Merry Christmas" sign!

Our kitchen

and kitchen tree

I picked this sign up at our boutique this weekend. I was gushing over it all day!! So obviously we had to get a picture next to it while baking our Christmas cookies this year!

We made gingerbread houses with our neighbors a few weeks ago. We had a BLAST! We decided for next year, the girls will get their own house and the boys can make one together-as crazy at they want!

A few more gold decorations on our table.

My mom cleaned out all my old decorations last year and found a nativity set I made in Sunday school one year. It is now in our hallway.

She also gave me all my old ornaments I used to put up on my tree. I bought another new tree this year (three years in a row!) and put it up in our bedroom. It was the perfect place for all my old ornaments. It brought back such fun memories as I put them on the tree!

And here are some of my favorite holiday things. Our cookie pies of course! Dark Chocolate Sea Salt caramel popcorn I found at Target. I am planning to buy enough to hopefully last the whole year! And my Vanilla Snowflake three wick candle from Bath & Body Works. It smells divine!

We have a very busy weekend coming up with three Christmas parties! Sunday I starting baking all our Christmas cookies. I LOVE CHRISTMASTIME!!!! 

 

Update

Hi friends! I apologize! My phone has been a nightmare lately!! I finally got a different one, but I have hardly taken any pictures. And we all know the only pictures I post come from my phone. I promise to post another update soon! Plus our Christmas card will be out before you know it!