holiday festivities

december has hands-down been one of the busiest months of our lives, as we both work full time, are finishing up classes for the fall semester, and are feverishly working on our new house. however, thankfully, we were sure to make time for plenty of holiday festivities.

nikki was sweet enough to let me attend their ward's christmas party with them, as i am not one to turn down free food, christmas music, or time spent with this little girl.

we visited temple square with our good friends marcus and loni.

i had plenty of help wrapping presents from my cute little scrunchy-nosed side kick.

we attended kendrick's work christmas party. his work things are always the best because he works with my best friend's husband. #winwin

we visited christmas in color with our friends tawny, keegan, allyson, and sam.

we paid santa a visit at the mall with these two little cuties

we put up our christmas tree! it didn't go up until christmas eve, but, better late than never, right?

tree farm

in celebration of our new home, we decided it would be fun to pick out a real tree for the christmas season. lucky for us, our good friends tawny and keegan are always down for an adventure. 

 i never realized how incredibly expensive trees are, especially for the ones that are artificially colored or flocked. we ended up finding a gorgeous tree that was all tied up in the "discount area". i'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to be there, because even the person checking us out seemed baffled, but gave us the deal anyway. score!

now, if only we had somewhere to put our new tree.... #homerenovationproblems

we bought a house!

super excited to share the news- we bought our first home!

while the home is beautiful inside and out, the colors don't exactly fit our style, so we are doing a complete make over on everything. the entire first floor (which is currently tile and brown carpet) will become hard wood floors, and all of the bathrooms are getting retiled and new vanitys. the kitchen will be getting new countertops and backsplash and the cabinents a pretty make over. the carpet upstairs will be torn out and fully replaced. all of the walls are going to be repainted, and we are building a fireplace in the living room. last but not least, we plan on painting the front door and shutters navy blue in the spring.

how's that for a list? because of this, we will be living in my brother's basement for most of december while we get the place ready to live in.

we couldn't be more excited!