Happy V-Day!

As you probably know, I love celebrating things, and I also love making sugar cookies (they really go hand in hand) and February has given me the opportunity to do that more than once! Bryan and I had a fun time watching the Super Bowl with his family, and they encourage my sugar cookie obsession, so I decide to make my first ever batch of Super Bowl sugar cookies! I don't have any other pictures from the night, but I was pretty proud of these so I thought I'd share them: 

If you can't tell, those are supposed to be Giants and Patriots helmets (I simplified the Patriots logo, don't be too disappointed). 

I also made some Valentine's sugar cookies (they are always my favorite to decorate) and here is a little taste of that for you: 

Anyway, Bryan and I both have had a pretty busy week, so we decided to celebrate Valentine's on the Saturday before. It was a great idea because we got to spend almost the whole day together and with our busy lives that is a rare occurrence! The day started out with some pink, heart shaped, chocolate chip pancakes! They aren't perfect but it's the thought that counts right :)

Here is our breakfast spread, complete with the other thing our day started out with: Presents!

Here is Bryan with is V-day gift, I got him the Steve Jobs biography. Here he is imitating the man himself:

And Bryan got me some beautiful flowers:

Saturday night Bryan took me out for a date that ended up being a lot more that we bargained for (in a good way). It started out with dinner at this little pizza place downtown. It was New York style and it was so good! We will definitely be returning.

After dinner we walked a couple blocks to the Gallivan Center for some outdoor ice skating. This is something that I've wanted to do since we were dating and we just never got around to it, so I was pretty excited for it. First surprise of the night was the weather. It was so warm out that we really didn't need coats and gloves, so that made for some fun skating. Anyway, when we got to the rink there were TONS of people there, which we thought was weird. We went in to rent our skates and they told us that it was a free skating night. Who knew?! So we didn't have to pay to skate, but we did have to fight for rink space. But it was still a lot of fun.

It was such a cute little rink, I really want to go back sometime when it's not so crowded. If you haven't been then you need to get on that! Here's a pic of our free skates:

The third surprise of the night was this funny DJ. I can't remember his name but he was there playing a free show. He incorporated all of these funny movie/youtube clips into the songs. He was pretty entertaining to watch. So after we were tired of skating we went over to have a little listen. Which brings us to the last surprise of the night....

While we were enjoying the music, out of no where these fireworks started to shoot up right behind him?! What?! There was randomly a 5 minute firework show, and a good one at that! Haha, we thought it was so crazy/random, but so much fun. I love me some fireworks. And it has already put me in the summer frame of mind! 

So there you have it. Our crazy Valentine's date. It turns out that they were celebrating the anniversary of the Salt Lake olympics and it just happened to coincide with our evening plans. So it was a pretty fun night and I thought I'd share it with you. I hope you all had fun celebrating the holiday of love!

Home for Christmas

Well we just returned home from our trip to Kansas!! We enjoyed the long Holiday there with friends and family and endless fun. But the most exciting part of the trip was that Taylor got home from his mission to Mexico!!! We were all so excited about this! Sarah and I spent the entire day before making signs and decorating his room and making sure that it would be an exciting day for him. Here are a few of our pieces of art that we had in the lawn for him to see. A lot of our signs were inside jokes with the fam, so you may find them confusing, haha. 

We had tons of signs at the airport, and we also decided to dress up with sombreros and maracas and mustaches, just to make Taylor feel comfortable :) We not only gave taylor the welcome of a lifetime, but I'm pretty sure that everyone else getting off that plane appreciated us too. Anyway, here he is fresh off the mission:

Taylor got home a few days before Christmas, so we promptly started our Christmas traditions. One of my favorite parts of Christmas is decorating cookies with the family. So here we all our doing our best to one-up each other with our creativity:

Here are a few of my masterpieces; A sexy lady and her cholo man friend, ready for a night on the town: 

Mom with her one eyed, one armed pirate gingerbear. She really worked with what she was given on this one:

We even had a contest to see who decorated the best cookie. And to keep it fair we had seth as the Judge. Here are all the entries starting at the top: Nick submitted his Antwon Dodsen cookie, mom went with her pirate, Alan and his mitten, Dad went with his creative star, Sarah submitted her beach babe, Taylor went with his missionary, I submitted Rudolph, and Bryan went with a red tree. 

And the winning order was: Taylor, Sarah, Mom, Alan, Bryan, Dad, Me, Nick. Seth is a fan of the color green, haha. Bryan was proud that he beat me, and Alan was beaming with his fourth place cookie.

Christmas eve and Christmas morning were so much fun with Seth. It was fun to see how excited he was for Santa to come. And it was fun being around the whole family. Here is our Christmas morning spread:

I was surprised that we got all those stockings on the fireplace! We really should have taken a picture of what the living room looked like after opening all the presents. We needed 4 trash bags to pick up all the wrapping paper! After opening presents we ate a yummy breakfast and headed off to Church. And Christmas night we decided to head to downtown Kansas City and look at all the pretty Christmas lights. Bryan and I had the privilege of riding with Seth and he was a hoot. He thought the lights were fun and we had a blast singing Christmas songs together. He wanted me to take a picture of him and for some reason this was the pose he chose: 

As you can see it was a fun trip and we didn't want it to end. I feel so blessed to have spent Christmas with my entire family and I hope that we will all be together again soon. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas as well! 

Happy Turkey Day!!

Well the Holiday Season is here and I couldn't be more happy about it! We kicked it off with a fun and relaxing (and long!) weekend last week and it was so nice. We both needed the break (especially Bryan!) and we enjoyed getting to spend some time together. Unfortunately I didn't take any pictures on Thanksgiving (fail) but we had such a nice day. Bryan got to play and watch football and eat lots of food, and I got to bake and cook and spend time with lots of family. So we were both pretty happy. I am so ashamed of myself for not taking any pictures of my desserts, this is not like me. But I promise you that I made sugar cookies and an apple pie!! 

On Friday we decided to avoid the shoppers. Instead we headed up to the U for their football game. Here are some pics that I snapped with my phone before the game started: 

Please note that we look happy in these pictures. This was not the case by the end of the game though, haha. They lost (horribly) to our dismay and it ended up being FREEZING! by the end of the game I was so frozen that I could barely walk to our car :( But we still managed to have fun and I'm glad that we got to go to one game this year. Hopefully next year we can go to more because, lets be honest, I love wearing red! haha. 

On Saturday we took to decking the halls! One of my favorite parts of the Holidays!! We put up Christmas lights for the first time this year and I'm so excited about that. I think Bryan did such a good job with them, and I'm glad that he survived!! As you can see here, safety was not his main priority!

 After taking care of the outside, we put on "Home Alone" and worked on the inside. Here's a pic of our tree. Unfortunately we went the pre-lit route and it didn't last us two years. wah wah. But I was over it. I wasn't going to let it stop me from putting our tree up. Hopefully before Christmas I'll have time to get a new strand of lights and fix the problem, but I'm not making any promises, haha.

And Don't worry family, here is proof that I'm keeping the Wofford tradition alive:

I promise that it's in the back of the tree :) (disregard if you aren't a Wofford) 

And here are a few other pics of some of our decorations. A nativity set my brother sent me from Mexico: 

My Nutcracker that I begged my mom for in elementary school (I really don't remember why, but I'm glad I have him now!)

And some other Christmas Cheer:

I have a few Christmas decoration projects that are in the works, hopefully they make it up before Christmas!! 

And last but not least, we did do one bit of shopping last weekend. On Saturday we hit up Old Navy for some Christmas PJ Pants. Here we are in our Christmas best. Gotta love holiday PJs. 

And that's that. It was a fun weekend and a great kick start to the Holidays. Now if we can only get through these next few busy weeks, we'll be in Kansas celebrating with the other side of the family. We can't wait!! 

We have a winner!!

Thanks to all who entered our giveaway!! We appreciate your help in spreading the word about our shop.  The winner of the Christmas headband is Natalie who said:

Cute stuff! I clicked favorite on the Hot Pink and Cream Sarah Headband.

We hope you enjoy your new headband Natalie!! 

Also, we have some exciting deals coming up for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. So head on over to our shop to check them out!

From Nov 24-27 when you spend $30 you get a free gift with your purchase (up to $7 in value) and if you spend $50 then you will receive a %15 off coupon code to use after Jan 1st!! Don't Miss out on these deals

Thanks again to all who entered. Keep checking back for more giveaways and deals!!

A Grown-Up Giveaway!!

well as promised we are having another giveaway, and this time it's all about the Ladies! Our shop has been open for about a month now so what better way to celebrate than with a Christmas giveaway?!

Sarah and I have been having a blast with our new shop, but I have to say that having the opportunity to get into the Christmas spirit a little early this year has been my favorite part so far. We recently posted some new Christmas products that we LOVE, so go check them out! 

Speaking of Christmas things, here are some pics of the prize up for grabs:

The giveaway winner will receive this elegant Christmas headband. It's made with two "Jessica" flowers in red and white satin fabric and embellished with three pearl beads. The flowers are attached to a metal headband that is wrapped in white satin ribbon. This headband is festive enough for the Holiday season but understated enough for all year long!

The giveaway will close and a winner will be chosen at midnight on Sunday night, so make sure to get your entries in! You can enter a total of three times, and here's how:

1. Go to our shop here and favorite one of our items, come back and let us know which item is your favorite! 

2. Favorite our shop on etsy and let us know that you did. (if you've previously done this just let us know below - you still qualify!)

3. Post about our shop in the social media world. Blog, Facebook, Twitter, anything you've got! Let us know about your posts and you'll get another entry.

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once you do any of the entry tasks, comment below and let us know what you did in order to complete your entry. 

Make sure you enter all three times for your best chance at winning the fun Christmas headband! Again, the giveaway will close on Sunday at midnight, so check back on Monday to see who the winner is! Thanks to everyone for your support, we appreciate it! 

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