oh yeah, Christmas.

I don't really care to write this blog post.

But for Christmas Taylor got me a super sweet gift.

He got our blog printed into a book. Which is seriously awesome, cause I am terrible at writing in my journal, and I feel like that is just as good, if not better. Anyway, it motivates me to continue to keep up with the blog and write seemingly mundane things because I like to think, if the world doesn't end in December, one day my Great Great Grandchildren will like to read about what our lives were like before they existed on this earth. I myself am kind of a sucker for family history. I used to find myself locked in the closet under the stairs at my great-grandma's house rifling through old pictures and letters.

I'm also really good at getting off track, apparently.

Eh, I'm probably not gonna write anymore. Here are some cute pictures from Christmas.

April's new wheels

Angie and Kendall the Elf

Logan's pants are off the chain.

If you look closely you can see that Curtis ruined the only photo where everyone was looking.

We love Christmas..

Fetus

Nom Nom Nom

Jammie Time

More Jammie Time

nana time

The Cutest present

In other news, I can't bring myself to take down our tree. So it's still up. Is that bad?
Jamie suggested I leave it up til Valentines, I'm considering it.
For the first week after Christmas it was up because of emotional attachment. But now I'm just being lazy, I know this because I'm clear sick of Christmas.

shocks. pegs. lucky.

this isn't going to be my full post about Christmas, but rather a quick little post to brag about one of my Christmas gifts.

That's right you crafty ladies, It's a Cricut 2. And for those of you who have no idea what that it is, it's basically a die cutting machine. Top o' the line die cut machine.

Taylor totally surprised me with this one, I didn't even ask for it. I mean, I have said off and on throughout the year that I wished I had one. But, you know what I'm saying.

Anyway, I don't scrapbook. I don't have the money or the patience for it. I think this is mostly used by scrapbookers. But I feel like the possibilities are really endless for me.

I used it for wrapping our nieces birthday presents for their first birthdays that are coming up. I realize a 1 year old will not care about the wrapping job, or even probably care about what's inside. But this is mostly for me OKAY?

Oh yeah, I have also gotten into making my own bows. Did I mention that yet? It's super easy and fun and cheaper. You can find the tutorial by clicking HERE.

I am excited to get down to some serious crafting business after the holidays are over.

In other news, we are still down in Valdosta and I am sick and Taylor has bad allergies. Boo. I woke up the day after Christmas super sickly and I mostly laid on the couch all day. Lux was my super cuddly buddy.

Also, Thomas:

merry & bright

We've had a good Christmas so far. 

(And hope the holidays have been good to you too!) 

I'll blog about it later. But in the meantime, Merry Christmas!

I just wanna thank everyone who helped and supported us this year (Especially our families!). Between getting married and moving 3 times (even living abroad), it's been a seriously crazy [fun] year. We love you all and couldn't have done it without you!!

Tay & Kyns

“May each Christmas season remind us to lift up our voices and fill our hearts with joy and gratitude that Christ the King has come! Christ lives! He is real. He is our Redeemer at Christmas and always.” 

-Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"world travellers"

Get ready cause I am about to shove more Christmas ornament stuff in your face.

Today we went to World Market, they had ornaments on sale, and also I just think that store is real fun. Anyway, last month we went and looked at the ornaments and decided we would get a couple to represent our adventures this year, since we weren't smart enough to collect them while we were actually in those places. So anyway, here's what we've got so far.

we got a hula girl for our HONEYMOON to Maui

A snowflake to represent our snowy wedding day in Utah

We wanted a Big Ben without Santa but they were gone.This one was for London.

A cute red phone booth for all of our English adventures.

We got this little globe for all of our other travels, and also, because on our boarding pass when we went to England, there was a little thing that said "World Traveller" which was for whatever reason, amusing to us, and has been a little joke between us ever since.
[also traveller is spelled wrong]

Guess you had to be there.

This is a cute little ornament that we didn't buy but we Jen's mom gave it to us while we were in Utah for Thanksgiving.

So that was fun and then also I found some Fentiman's Curiosity Cola. Which was this tasty little beverage that I had while we were visiting the Dover castle. Never thought I would see it again.

The moral of the story, is that World Market is super fun and I wish we were rich.

oh! Christmas tree.

OK, so here is our standard run of the mill newlywed first Christmas tree post.

So I don't know what it is about being married that has me all stoked for Christmas stuff, but it does. It's probably the same thing that makes me blog all the time. Marriage is magical.

Get this, I am actually listening to Christmas music, RIGHT NOW. I mean, really. Me. The person who has cursed Christmas music for her entire life. However, it is the Indie Christmas Pandora station, so it's like Sufjan Stevens, a little more my taste. But, STILL Christmas songs guys!!
[Don't worry, I am never going to be able to listen to it on my own before Dec. 1st though.]

Clear back in August while I was homesick in England I was daydreaming about our life when we get home and what I was going to do with our Christmas tree, and I decided that I was going to make miniature tissue pom pom's for our ornaments. I KNOW, it's kind of lame, and uncreative, but it was cheap, easy, and cute.

I also bought the cheap snowflake ornaments at Target.

We tried to make decorating the tree together an ordeal, but it took about 5 minutes. It was still fun though.

Behold, the tree.

We just used Lux's Santa hat for a topper cause I'm cheap.

ALSO we bought LED lights. Which are AWESOME!

P.S. if you want to know how to make the tissue pom poms..

 click HERE! and just follow the directions, but use small pieces of tissue paper. Also I just bought the cheap little ornament hooks from target (300 for a buck!) to hang them on. I'm too lazy and not pretentious enough to do my own tutorial, even though a lot of people ask me how I made those, since I also made 2000 of them for our wedding.