Resolved

We went to the gym last night, we're always great at going the first week of the year, ha ha! We weren't the only ones there, holy cow!  It was PACKED with people like us that are attempting their new year's resolutions.

We have some pretty good motivation to keep our fitness goal this year...if all goes as planned we're going to HAWAII for the first time this summer! Finally! We've wanted to go so badly, we can't wait!

So, we are working on our swim bods since we plan on living in swimsuits for two weeks. QUESTION: what are some of your favorite songs or artists to work out to? Rihanna & Britney (why am I admitting this?) are my favorites.  I'd love to hear some suggestions so I can add to my playlist!

Christmas Snapshots

Our home at Christmas time

 I'm loving all your Christmas posts! We had a great weekend with family.

 

It's a tradition at Mom and Dad's house for each couple to perform a Christmas song on Christmas Eve, and Scott and I always try to embarrass ourselves as much as possible. This year we sang the Chipmunk Christmas Song, hence the costumes.

We slept over that night, and stayed up until 2 am playing Cranium with Ash and Luke. We had fun opening presents at 9am...ahhh the joys of sleeping in!

I got Scott some clothes and a power saw. Like usual, he was amazingly creative and totally spoiled me! I'm so excited about it I made it its own post...I always want to remember all the awesome details he put into it.

We had a great time getting to talk to Scott's brother Jeff, he's on a mission in Georgia.  The whole family conference called in from four different states, it worked awesome!  It was definitely a highlight of the day.

We were also able to go to my Grandma and Grandpa's house on Christmas, it is always great to see family and eat awesome food! (Colleen, that salad was incredible! )

Happy new years this week to you all!

Vanity can be a good thing

Scott worked on a Christmas present all week and I had no idea what he had up his sleeve.  I was so surprised!

I usually get ready sitting in front of a mirror on the floor because our one bathroom is tiny and has about two inches of counter space. Scott decided that was no good, so he made me a vanity! 

He took an old desk (that was free on the side of the road, ha ha) and painted it. Then he took an old vanity mirror from his parents and painted it to match. Scott is the king of organization, and he thought of everything!

A basket for my hair dryer and irons.

Plenty of room for my jewelry and makeup! There is so much storage...I have an entire drawer just for head bands.

The stool is from Ikea.  On Monday Scott took me out and we went and bought a few accessories:

The iron frame above the vanity was our splurge ($20 from Hobby Lobby).  It was brown, and Scott spray painted it shiny black.  It's gorgeous! We also got an 'x' for $2 (Hobby Lobby), a mini vase (64 cents at Michaels) and an adorable pair of quail ($1.75 at D.I.).  Don't you love getting good deals?!

Now my corner is good to go! THANKS SO MUCH BABE! I LOVE IT!

Recently:

We're still here, let's just say the first two weeks of December could be summed up in one word...FINALS.  Gross!  I'm glad to have some quality time with Scott now that doesn't include words like "quantitative research" and "AP Style".

My little brother snapped some backyard shots of us all geared up for winter (for Christmas cards). I like this one (and we like our X mugs from Pier 1).

Other non-homework happenings:
We have been updating a journal we keep- it was a Christmas gift from Scott last year:

We write down quick one-liners about what went on during the month.  It is fun to go back and remember funny inside jokes and things.  We fell behind so we have been working to get it up to date.

My view for the last five nights:

My fingers are tender but it has been good.


We have also been able to see a lot of family recently- can't beat that.  Merry Christmas to all of you! Hope you have a wonderful week!

Trees Galore

Scott has never been to the Festival of Trees before, so that was at the top of our list of things to do this Christmas season.

Actually, we really do have a list.  We wrote down 25 things we want to do this month- some of them big things (like the Festival) and some very small (kiss under mistletoe).  We have checked off five things so far.

The trees were all incredible. We looked at every single one!  Our friends Kory & Amy came too, we always have a blast with them.

 

  My own lumberjack brought in our beautiful tree.  We had a lot of fun decorating our house for Christmas.  It's all silver and ice blue, our little winter wonderland!