Alright, I finally decided it was time I contributed to this blog. Leaving my husband to do all of it is just unfair. (Aside from the fact that once school started, this blog became obsolete.) Not his fault, mine. Anywho. Time to update about our lives. Where to start? Well we had a great first married holiday. We put up our first LIVE tree. It smelled wonderful and was so beautiful and full. We got an awesome deal, considering my boss owns a tree farm. So we ended up with a beautiful Grand Fir that smelled wonderful and looked wonderful...and brought a nestful of spiders. Yes, sadly, it is true. We had never had a spider in our apartment until that tree came in. Perhaps it's because Little Bits was such a good spider/insect cat. However, all these spiders ended up on the ceiling where Bits could not reach. Except the one that crawled across the coffee table on our puzzle. Luckily, they were not very big. Otherwise, the tree would have gone before Christmas. :)
So we proceeded to decorate our tree in two parts. The lights first, here are a few pictures:
After we had put the lovely lights on, we gave up for the night. Several days later (sad I know,) we finally put everything else on.
The ornaments my mom gave us. They were very nice.
The ornament Eric's parents gave us. Our first Christmas. Very cute!
What tree is complete without the candy canes?
The finished product. The Christmas Tree of all Christmas Trees! (At least in our apartment.)
Now of course we decided we had to take some pictures of us in front of it. So family picture time! This included Little Bits of course. But first he had to get in the festive mood.
Isn't he so cute? He loved those little antlers. ;)
So we have our first family picture! Reindeer included! (Ignore the fact that we're in sweats.)
Christmas was great fun, we opened our Moscow presents early, which always makes for more excitement. We flew into Boise and had a grand ole time with family. This included gingerbread houses and the Lind household. :D I'd put up pictures but I'm sick of wrestling with them right now.
On Christmas Eve Eric and I attended Midnight Mass in St. John's Cathedral in downtown Boise. Eric had never been, so it was an interesting experience for him. The cathedral is beautiful and midnight mass is always fun to do every once and a while.
We received wonderful gifts from everyone and enjoyed ourselves. We also took a roadtrip to Soda Springs on Christmas day which included snow, cold and snowmobiling. But I shan't say anything more about that now. Pictures must be included and as mentioned above, I can't be bothered with them anymore. So I shall try and add them tomorrow and keep this blog more updated. :D
Farewell for now!
Yay, Lyndsay! You have a blog! I hope you played on the teeter totters in Soda Springs. And you had a very nice tree! We used to do candy canes on the tree, too, but in the interest of our two-year-old daughter's teeth, we decided to skip them this year :)
ReplyDeleteHey there stranger! Wow your tree was so beautiful! We have a fake "Charlie Brown" tree. Maybe someday I can convince Bryant that we need to get rid of it. I totally thought of you on Christmas Eve...I was wishing I could go to midnight Mass!! Crazy! I'm glad you guys go to go. Keep posting...it's fun to see what you two have been up to!
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Hello! Yep, we have a blog that hasn't been too faithful and was solely written until now by Eric. But it will change because I plan on doing it more faithfully. You should have come on Christmas Eve, it was neat, although I don't think Eric wants to go for another couple of years. He thought it was weird. lol. Our real tree was so nice and it smelled so lovely! You need to update your blog Abrie and Jeralyn do you have one?
ReplyDeleteLynd-SAY! Yes, I have a blog: thebrewerfamilyblog.blogspot.com :)
ReplyDeleteHey Lyndsay, I am excited to hear how things are going for you guys as well. It is nice that you will be keeping up with it more:) I have been slacking on my blog as well but soon I will start adding more.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you had a great Christmas with such a beautiful tree. Those kind of memories make holidays much more special.