It's that time again...

I seriously love getting my Birchbox, its like Christmas once a month. This month was great, and I've fallen in love with everything:)

Such a lovely sight

Who doesn't love Christmas trees? Ever since I can remember my mom has had hands-down the most breath taking tree. It always has to be perfect, and is something I look forward to every year. But this year there was just a little something different about the tree! Okay all of you who know me, know that seeing all of this Pendleton under the tree is sure a sight for me!

Our lovely walks

Anna and I try to walk at least a couple times a week together, and Bella loves to join! She has been apart of all of our random and crazy adventures, and is such a trooper. On one of our last walks, she was getting a little tired and well she is just too darn cute not to snap some pictures

Fun at the park

We've all heard the 'don't judge a book by its cover' and 'things aren't always what they seem to appear' well Anna and I defiantly learned that if you look just a bit more closely you might see a different picture. We have been going to a park close to my work on my lunch break to work out while the girlies play and run off some energy too. We snapped this lovely picture of them swinging and having a blast.....

But when Anna zoomed onto Lou, we found out maybe she wasn't having as much fun as we thought!

Tree Hunting

A couple weeks ago Naaman and I went with the Belcher's to go find our Christmas tree! I love Christmas, and always think back to when Mari-Beth and I were younger and we got our own little Christmas trees in our room to decorate, when we got to open up 1 present on Christmas Eve and it always was pajamas, rocking out to the Beach Boys Christmas cassette tape, being surround by family, having dad video tape us, MB opening e.v.e.r.y. single present so slowly; asking for a pocket knife to cut the tape off first, then before opening the present she would fold the paper into a nice little square, and then proceed to finally open it (drove me nuts!),  making cookies for Santa, and walking down the stairs Christmas morning to an absolutely beautiful tree and seeing the biggest smile on Mom and Dad's face. 

Christmas is always something I look forward to because it means family! Aunts, uncles, cousins, family friends and so many loved ones. It crazy to think this is the last year before Naaman and I will start splitting Holidays. Yes its crazy to think we have been together for so long, and have yet to spend Christmas together...this Thanksgiving was our first big holiday together:) 

Well to get back on track, we headed into the woods to find that perfect  tree! We were so excited to get the tree all set up and have the wonderful smell of Christmas in our house!

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!

Anna, Auntie M, Bella, Lou's & I went to the Christmas parade this year downtown! It was so much fun to see the girlies get so excited over all the lights, Santa, candy, The Grinch and of course seeing Papa Craig riding on one of the floats! We decided to make a date of it, and headed to dinner afterwards and enjoyed listening to Bella talk about the parade and getting so excited to share all of her candy that she got! I unfortunately didn't get too many great pictures, because Anna took alot, but hopefully I will get them for her and I'll post more soon! 

Pinterest Party Round 2

I love getting together with friends and hanging out, and it gets even better when great food and crafts get thrown into the mix! We headed over to Maggie's house for our pinterest party and ate amazing food, busted out some projects, giggled, passed baby Ellie around, and played Wii!

Just in case you are wondering what that white 'mess' in the bowl is, its the craziest combination and will probably most defiantly sound crazy! It is pudding, cool whip, apples and snickers! So as weird as that sounds, it seriously tasted amazing!