Frosty the Snowman

We were fortunate to have a White Christmas this Year. It just didn't "snow"on Christmas, it "SNOWED"! We accumulated about a foot of snow over about a week's time. It was absolutely insane. Schools were closed for two weeks, chains were required on all highways, and I have never seen so many people use public transportation or walk. As you will see from our pics, Frosty the Snowman came to Town!

2nd Annual Ugly Christmas Sweater Party

This is the second year that we have a party with all of friends wearing Ugly Xmas Sweaters.  Last year we started this tradition and it was a hit!  We were supposed to wear ugly xmas sweaters, but last year one our friends (Jamie) thought we said Ugly Sweater Party, so he had just bought an ugly sweater.  He luckily found out right before the party that "xmas" was the theme, so he ran to Michael's and bedazzled the thing up and it was a bigger hit than all of ours.  So, this year, we used his idea and all of us made our own.  It was absolutely hilarious.  The picture above is Eric making his and below is me with my finished product!

Xmas is in the Air: "Xmas Lights"

This is our Perfect  Xmas Tree in all of its Glory!  

It is hard to really see all of our coordinating ornaments (red and white balls, green and red oblong shaped ones, and big big red balls).  I have tons of childhood and other ornaments, but I felt very lazy this year and didn't put them up.  Frankly it was because I didn't want to put them away.  I packed them so nicely last year, I didn't want to disturb their yearly slumber.  Once there are children, all of the other ornaments are going on the tree for sure!

This is our lighted house.  We think that the trees with the red lights on them look like something out of the Grinch Movie.  They are kind of weird shaped and the lights aren't "perfect" as Eric would say.  We are very proud of our well lighted house because this is our First Christmas in this house and there is just something special about the "First-Everythings".  The Wreath above the garage is from our wedding.  Doesn't it look "perfect" there?  There is EVEN snow on the ground.  Picture Perfect, huh?!

Xmas is Surely in the Air: "The Perfect Tree"

Eric and I took some of our friends to cut down xmas trees last weekend.  It was such a beautiful day and soooo fun!!!  There is something liberating about holding an a saw (a VERY dull saw at that!) and going to find "the TREE".  Like Eric and I have discussed even before this year, there is no "perfect tree", but how is it when we are looking for one, we are overcome by finding the "perfect tree".  As we looked around the tree farm, Eric truly believed that a 10 foot tree would fit in our house.  Now mind you, the top of our ceiling is 9 feet tall so why the 10 foot tree would work is beyond me, but it is fun to listen to his reasoning :)  Any ways, after waying the cost and how big our room really is, we decided on the "perfect tree".  Our friends were able to find their perfect trees as well.   As you will see, once we found our perfect tree, we just had to hug it :)  

And the Candid Pics are In!

Beth and Eric with their Families

Beth and Siblings

Beth with her handsome Brothers

The Family

The Wedding Party

Beth and Eric


I haven't been able to get with our photographer yet from the wedding to post some "professional" shots, but i do have some candid pics from what other people took that I wanted to share.    You have to bare with me because I have NO IDEA how to layout these pictures and what I am doing:)  I will try not to bore you either with posting tons of wedding pics so I will make sure that I keep it to a minimum. (Isn't it fun though to see pics of weddings!!  I love to see anyone's wedding pics because everyone is so happy and full of love and joy)

We have joined the CYBER world

Well, we did it! Can you believe it. I have been holding off and holding off for some reason to joining the life of being a blogger. Believe it or not, this stuff really intimidates me. Me having to write and people trying to follow what I have to say. For those that really know me, I am a WAY better talker than writer. So, as I embark on this blogging journey and I seem to not make very much sense, just read it out loud and act like I am talking to you:)

So, I am going to stay away from the intimidating stuff....bringing everyone up to speed with my life and how I ended up here today. I don't know why, but I think that would take FOREVER and I hope that I have done an "ok" job via email, phone, etc... to date keeping everyone informed of my life! I will though take you back a couple of weeks or so ago and update you to today.

I GOT MARRIED!!!! As you see in the picture, that is my wonderful, handsome husband that I was fortunate to marry last week, Nov 29th!!! What a wonderful day it was. The topper was marrying this incredible person, but the extra special part was having my incredible family here with me. My 4 siblings, sister-in-law, my parents and all of Eric's family were here for Thanksgiving and the wedding and WHAT AN INCREDIBLE TIME WE HAD! I did not want to see them go on Sunday. I think that I cried that night and all the next day :( But anyways, the wedding was so special and what a blessing to have so much support there to wish us well. Since I am just getting started doing this blog thing, I have to be honest, I have no freakin' idea how to post pictures and if you are like me, pictures on someone's blog is way more interesting them reading what they have to say. So, I will stop babbling and find out how to post pics and get those posted so you can see in our expressions what an incredible week it was.

I look forward to sharing my thoughts, stories, and pics with all of you and hopefully I can get Eric to join in!