Christmas eve eve morning!

Another post about Christmas, I know, but I also know all of you readers are dying to know about mine and Jordan's Christmas. Right? Right? Maybe a least a little?

As it so happened, we decided to have Christmas morning on not Christmas morning. We had it on the 23rd of December because we were leaving for NY very early in the morning on the 24th.


I have to admit, I might have gone a little overboard with the presents, BUT most of them are much smaller than they appear as I wrapped them in boxes much larger than the actual gift.


Jordan might have been a less excited than I was.


Cinnamon rolls for breakfast! Just the way Christmas morning was intended.


Even Dorian got a little stocking with toys--granted, she was more excited about all the wrapping paper than she was about her toys.


You know, I think we could still make this sweater work for him...maybe.


Ahhh, you can massage your neck while washing your hair. A double headed shower thing-y.


And what is Christmas without a lovely Christmas tree? Well, it's still Christmas because this was the most flattering picture of ours :)

Make Merry {I pinned it, I did it series}

Am I too late to be posting about Christmas?

Maybe a little?

Well, I have to post about this! I spent all this time (after Christmas, mind you) making it!


A couple months ago, I saw this on pinterest and decided that I could make my own, except that it wouldn't say "Give Thanks"

So here is my version. Okay, so it's not quite as good, but I'll make modifications to it. Just a little Christmas spirit...for next year anyway ;)






okay, so it may not be as pretty, and the image isn't edited as nicely (at all really...), but it will look nice next year when it actually fits with the decor :)

I am not a runner

This is what I would have told you in high school: I am not a runner. I hate running and it is not for me.

This is what I will tell you now. I think I might be a runner.

I don't know what happened, but it all started with being bored. I literally had nothing to do, so I joined the running club at Laughlin AFB (Air Force Base). The first week, I had a hard time running 2 miles.

Yup. Two miles. AND we were training for a half marathon.

Anyway, a couple months later, I was at the starting line of my first half marathon.




















And 13.1 grueling, awful miles later, I was at the finish line. SO happy to be done. It was pretty rough (although I did manage to smile for a minute)
















So, you think I would have learned my lesson, but noo, I had to go do another half marathon, but at least that one wasn't quite as terrible as the first one. (But it was freezing...and snowing!)














And then I had to go and volunteer to do TWO more half marathons in the next two months. But you know what? I think I'm starting to like running.

Hopefully I'll get around to full marathon by the end of the year :)

New Year's Resolutions

Jordan and I wrote up a list of our New Year's resolutions. It's a very long list divided into several categories and rolls onto two whole pages! Let's see if we can make this a great & successful new year.

And I have a New Year's resolution to write in my blog more, so here we go!

Soul Mates

After Jordan and I picked out his suit, he casually suggested wearing Converse for our wedding day. I said I thought that was a fun idea. Then he said, we should write "soul mates" on them. (For those of you who don't know, Jordan's a bit punny...well, a lot actually ;)


So here we are, "Soul Mates" married at last :)


his



hers



ours :)

New Home

A month ago, Jordan and I got married. We took off after our reception to our 2-day honeymoon. One night in Salt Lake City, Utah; one 8 hour plane ride (including layovers) to San Antonio, Texas; and one night in San Antonio Texas. Then we spent the next morning shopping at the stores that aren't in Del Rio, and then we drove the 3-hour drive to Del Rio, Texas aka the Border Town aka the Middle of Nowhere.

When we got there, we didn't have a house yet. So we stayed in Jordan's dorm. Great for one person. Not so great for two people, especially when one doesn't have anything to do all day. And is stuck in a small one-room dorm (literally the whole dorm is a single room), without any natural light.

Fast forward 3 weeks!!! We have a house! Jordan's parents and brother were awesome enough to drive our (read: my) stuff down from Utah.

Now that we have our stuff AND a house, I've started unpacking and creating a home. But that's kind of hard to do when you don't have places to PUT the stuff. We're getting that taken care of (albeit slowly: we bought a bookshelf--it was broken. We returned it and bought another--I just found out that one is broken too! Haha, should have checked it)

Even though we've been in this new house for going on 3 weeks, I still haven't unpacked everything, but when I do, I will post pictures :)

Scare from last night

So last night, I woke up twice in the middle of the night with a terribly hurting throat (I don't care if that's bad grammar btw). Well, it was the middle of the night (as I said), and you may not know this about me, but I really don't like the dark. Read. I'm kind of afraid of the dark.

So, I was trying to get rid of whatever was making my throat hurt by spitting out gross stuff into the sink (you probably didn't want to know that). And when I walk out of the bathroom, something compelled me to look at the wall next to the bathroom across from my bed. So I did. Big mistake.

There, sitting on the wall, was a massive, ginormous spider (okay, I may be exaggerating..a little. It was about the size of a quarter though!). Anyway, first I gasped. Then shuddered (I hate spiders, and if Jordan were there, he would have been awoken to save me from it). But alas he was not, so I bravely grabbed the tissue box next to me, inched it toward the spider (with my insides crawling....oh gross, that wasn't meant to be a pun), and then WHAM! Smashed the spider. It stuck to the wall. So I quickly tiptoed toward the bathroom (I didn't want to step on any other spider that might be lingering in my bedroom), and grabbed some toilet paper. Just as I was about to squish the spider into the toilet paper again. It MOVED!!! Okay, really it fell. But I screamed nonetheless. And then I refused to pick it up.

And then when I finally went to bed, I covered myself completely with my (really hot) blanket. Yeah, that only lasted a little while because it was too hot. Slowly I inched myself out of my blanket. But then I got paranoid again, freaked out, and turned on the lights and visually inspected my entire room. No spiders. Finally I could go back to sleep... (well, ish, I was still feeling sick :( )

So that's my story from last night. Goodness, I can't wait to get married and make Jordan take care of gross bugs like that. Ick!