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February!

Happy February everyone! Best month of the year by far. There are so many things I love about February. There is Groundhog's Day, Valentine's Day, my birthday, 28, sometimes 29 days. Show me another month that has a varying length, February is very unique. Great month. I hope you all enjoy February this year!

Favorite Things

It's been a while since we posted and so I decided to do a nice dedicatory post. Maybe this will be a recurring theme, and maybe it will be called Friday Favorites (yes, I do know that today is Thursday, the Friday thing will be for the future posts). This week I've decided that one of my favorite things is Clorox wipes (or Lysol wipes, whichever I have on hand). I can't live without them. Between my job and my slight germaphobia I cannot be without disinfectant. I use Clorox wipes daily, I use them on everything from shoes to countertops to doorknobs. The list goes on and on. Thank you Clorox for your fine efforts in this wonderful product, and for the extra peace of mind they bring with all their germ killing powers. Well done.

Another Reason To Get Married

I officially have the best husband in the world. He just surprised me Rascal Flatts tickets. My birthday is February 28 and the concert is the 26th. Thank you Nathan! No more trying to win tickets on the radio. I am pretty sure that I actually screamed when I opened the gift. And, another bonus, I didn't even have to wait to open them, I hate surprises and waiting to open presents. Best birthday ever, coming right up. Thanks Nate, I love you!

Our Year So Far

Where have we been? The new year has been busy so far. Well, I started out the year with a horrible cold and so hopefully that's out of my system for a while. Nate has been busy with work and school and just being handsome. I have started a new hobby. I received Photoshop for Christmas and have not been able to put it down! I really have enjoyed learning digital scrapbooking and have been busy creating pages. Hopefully I can still remember to post occasionally on the blog, but in the mean time, here are some of my digital creations...

Happy New Year's Eve!

Wishing everyone a happy and fun New Year's Eve. Nate and I are headed to a party tonight, bring on the laughs, games, "mock"tails, and midnight kissing! Hopefully after a fun night tonight and a morning of sleeping in, we'll be ready to work on our resolutions. Here's to a great 2009!!

Elver Pajamas

Every year on Christmas Eve we have always received some pajamas from an elf named Elver, tonight was no exception. When I was in first or second grade we wrote letters to Santa's elves. It turns out that these elves were the sixth graders in our elementary school and they each responded to our letters. My letter was signed from an elf named Elver, and so the tradition was born. Each Christmas Eve from that time on we have been given Christmas pajamas. These are the pajama pants that Nate and I got tonight:

Cookies

We still haven't gotten around to decorating our annual gingerbread house. This evening after I got canceled from work Nate and I decided to make and decorate some cookies. Now bear in mind that the only cookie cutter we have is in the shape of a butterfly and we also had no sprinkles, so these are very amateur cookies. We had fun, and I think that's the point.

It's About Time

We finally put up our Christmas decorations! My mom had brought us a wreath a few days ago and it was making me feel guilty about not having other decorations up. So after going to dinner with Benji and Amanda Friday night we finally got around to putting up our tree and some lights. Now I am wishing we had done it much sooner. I love the glow from the lights on the tree and Nate says it makes our apartment much more "homey," and I have to agree. Now that our decorations are up and there is some snow on the ground I feel like Christmas is here at last.

Our tree, sorry that it's a little blurry.



The wreath that my mom gave us.



The stockings are hung on a bookshelf because we have no fireplace.


These are some fun snowflake lights that change colors. I like that they have the little suction cups that stick right to the window.

Christmas Lights

So as part of our date night this week, Nate took me out to see some of the lights around the valley. Now this is something I love to do, and I was so impressed that he remembered! What a good man! We drove around for an hour and a half or so and looked at lights in some residential areas. I saw tons of really cool houses, but my favorite is this house near us. Last year they had a rhino all lit up and this year they have a Loch Ness Monster. Very cool.