Mila, the Baby Christmas Grinch

Okay, I'm being a LITTLE dramatic. It wasn't completely ruined but the morning was pretty miserable for our beautiful girl. All of the gifts were terrible and scary and she refused to touch anything, even the paper! The evening did get better and we found her wanting to play with most of her toys the rest of the night. Oh also, my husband makes an Ah-MAZING venison roast, just saying. Hopefully next year will bring a little more enthusiasm from our little Grinch! Thank you to everyone who sent gifts and cards and well-wishes! We love you! Merry Christmas!

What Is In Two Years?

It was just a look shared between two lost strangers in a grocery store. I thought, there's no way this man is checking me out in my Meijer uniform but he was. That moment was like a little light in a very long shift. When I finally got home, I had a friend request on Facebook and when I pulled it up I was shocked, weirded out but amused - it was the boy from the store. I didn't know how it was possible, and even though it was slightly creepy, I decided to add him and we talked for an hour that night and planned a date. We've been inseparable ever since.

Our Thanksgiving

Our little family was unfortunately forced to stay in Missouri this year so we needed to have our own Thanksgiving. For our centerpiece, I just grabbed an old mason jar, wrapped a burlap ribbon around it and gathered some things from the front yard that looked "festive".

1) Our "centerpiece" // 2) Preparing our pomegranate, dried apricot, raisin and cornbread stuffing