Holidays!!!

♥Merry Christmas! What a wonderful and exciting season it has been. I'm so happy that we got to spend it with people that we love :)

♥Sugar cookies! These were a hit with everyone :) haha! 

♥Godiva chocolates club! The best club to belong to!

♥Starbucks during Christmas season, so good! Thank you!

♥Gingerbread house making at my favorite aunties! She's dabom.com!

♥My favorite tradition :) SLC temple square lights, such a wonderful place to go to embrace the full spirit of Christmas :)

♥Christmas morning- LegoArchitecture was definitely the way to go with Sean :) 

♥I wish I could say this was a nice day to go on a walk, but it was freaking freezing :) but still beautiful 

Well, these are our holiday season blurps ;) I hope yours was awesome as well! 

xoxo

Meg

P.S. Thanksgiving was pretty great too :)

♥Yummy food, annual height measuring (even the old people measure, like they expect they grew over the past year of something, haha ;), cute second cousins! 

♥ Sean has gotten into pottery over the last semester :) 

a little bit of leftovers....that is of christmas!

I've been meaning to share these pictures with the world for a while now, but this and that would come up {and sometimes I am just plain lazy} and they would be filed away in the back of my brain. These were a part of our 12 Dates of Christmas. By the way, did we finish the dates? no. But, did we have fun trying to? absolutely. I made dinners that I have never made before, we watched movies, cleaned the house, sledded, shopped, went on a little trip and muchmuch more....and the most important part, we made time for each other during the entire break. Seriously, not a day went by that we didn't do something together, it was pretty much the awesomest break in our school-going history. Speaking of school, it's on again! And I am finally taking classes that I am interested in and happy to get ready for :) big big smile for that! And I should also go to bed, so I can have enough energy to do my homework tomorrow and not on Sunday {another new year goal}! Goodnight all. 

xoxo,

Meg

christmas day recap ♥

       I feel so blessed to have had such a wonderful Christmas this year! Not only did it snow and make a beautiful winter wonderland for us to wake up to on Christmas morning, but we also had the whole day to spend with our family and each other. It was truly an amazing Christmas! I am so grateful that we have the Savior as the reason for this celebration, I know that I can be thankful for everyone and everything that I have because of him.

     Sean and I woke up at 10am!! Seriously, we slept in on Christmas and it was the best! First, Sean got up and turned on the heater to warm up the house and then we both got up and opened gifts from each other. It was so much fun that we forgot to take any pictures! haha! I think that's the best indication of a fun time for us, when we forget to take pictures :) Here are some pictures from the rest of our Christmas day :)

a whole herd of deer in the backyard

one simply can't go without a snowball fight when there is so much snow around ;)

mom and dad and our furry sibling Purcy ;)

sledders unite!

the snow, it was all over us! 

the safest way to stay dry and warm :)

one time we fit 4! people on that sled, haha!

sisters :)

the 6 russians :) 

it was truly a wonderland

I hope you are all enjoying this holiday season! 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Thanks for reading!

Love, 

Meg

12 dates of christmas, let it begin!

   

Last year I saw this fun 12 dates of Christmas idea on a few other blogs, before I started my own blog, and Sean and I tried doing it. Although we didn't finish all of the 12 dates, we did get 10 in, considering that we started during finals I think we did pretty good. It was really fun to do and fun to make time for each other during the busy holiday season. We didn't spend much money on our dates, which made the dates less stressful and more creative {sometimes they were just doing things at home :)}

This year, once again, we are going to do the 12 dates of Christmas! I am really excited and started planning some of our dates a little earlier {we usually plan them together, i mean 12 dates in a short time period is a lot for one person to be responsible for!}And we enjoy planning them together, sometimes we plan ahead and other days they are very impromptu :) Here are the ones that we did last year and I'm sure that some of them will be repeats this year too :) 

♥  date 1- homemade pizza and homemade ornaments, I made a little sailing ship and Sean painted a star :) 

♥  date 2- smoothies and Christmas shopping guides, the guides were for each other, they were super helpful when we actually did go shopping. You don't have to get the other person everything on their wishlist but at least you get some good ideas on what they are looking at :) 

♥  date 3- ok, so this was our lamest date, we had to study :( we both had finals, but for our date we did put a movie in and studied next to each other, probably some snacking was involved :)

♥ date 4- went out for pizza and a movie at the cheap theater ($3 per person, $2 with a coupon, doesn't get much better than that!)

♥  date 5- hot chocolate and driving around our little college town finding the best Christmas decorations and lights :) 

♥  date 6- Christmas shopping, finally! this obviously means that the finals were over and we had some time to get STARTED on buying gifts :) 

♥  date 7- my favorite date and a tradition of ours, going to Salt Lake City Temple Christmas lights and out for sushi at Kyoto (the best place to get japanese food in SLC) I absolutely love all of the lights at the temple square, it's so beautiful and wonderful to feel the true spirit of this season :)

♥ date 8- a basketball game at our university, we won! a true college couple date, haha

♥ date 9- a trip to the local Petsmart, whenever we go there we always hope to see puppies :) we can't have pets at our apartment complex, but you can sure bet we will get one as soon as we can :)

♥ date 10- I guess we were in an animal loving mood and went to see We Bought a Zoo, it's definitely one of our favorite movies now :)

I can't wait to do the 12 dates of Christmas 2012 edition and I will be sharing it here, so make sure to check back and follow along :) if any of you are doing it or anyone you know is going to do it make sure to let me know, it would be fun to see others date ideas. 

Happy Holidays!

xoxo, 

Meg