Sunday, December 21, 2008

Harvey's Love/Hate Relationship with the Christmas Season

Harvey loves the Christmas tree! After we put up the tree Harvey immediately hopped over and sat underneath it. He thinks it is his space and doesn't appreciate it when we put presents under the tree.....
Harvey is not a fan of the cold though.... He spends his days curled up under his stool, curled up in my arms, or laying by the fire. We are not sure how he can stand laying so close to the fire, his body gets so hot. Matt thinks he feels like a rice bag that has been stuck in the microwave!



Decorating Christmas Cookies

This past weekend Sara and Mike invited the fam to their house to decorate Christmas cookies! It was a lot of fun and interesting to see everyone's designs. Let's just there were no two cookies alike......
Sara's very creative and colorful Christmas horse!

Then: Aren't they cute!

Now: Their concentration and focus decorating cookies is amazing........

Working Hard!

The finished product.....

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Christmas at Apt C

Finals are finally over, we both survived our semester (thank goodness), and we are enjoying Christmas break!! Only three more semesters to go...... Now that the semester is over we are enjoying the Christmas season!!

My little Christmas village

The dinning room
Every Christmas my goal is to see how many wreaths I can put up.... I think there are only six this year....
Our little kitchen
Our Bedroom

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Matt's 29th Birthday

On Wednesday, in celebration of Matt's birthday we went to dinner at Irma's in Midtown. Their burgers are amazing! Afterwards Matt's parents came over for birthday cake! Due to having tests all week the big celebration was postponed until Saturday.......

On Saturday the celebration continued at his parent's house, with his family, my parents and brother and sister. Kathy made Matt's favorite, the most amazing lasagna and a chocolate birthday cake. After opening presents we decorated their Christmas tree!!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Our Christmas Tree

Last weekend Matt & I went to Sorghum Mills Christmas Tree farm to cut down our Christmas tree. After an hour of searching the fields and drinking hot apple cider, we finally found the perfect tree! Of course Matt needed a little help, so I had to step in and show him how to cut down the Christmas tree.......

Monday, December 1, 2008

A week of finals and Thanksgiving........

The first part of this past week was spent in Spokane taking finals. I am so thankful that the semester is almost over. Three down, three more to go......November in SpokaneThanksgiving is one of my most favorite holidays. This year Matt and I spent it with my family in Ponca City. Growing up, every Thanksgiving Day was started by running in the Pioneer Woman 10K. It was then followed with our big Thanksgiving dinner at the church building where my grandparents go to church. After stuffing ourselves we usually follow it up with a talent show or basketball game. In the evening the entire family heads out to my grandparents farm where we spend the rest of the evening eating more food watching sports or home videos. Of course I was always a firm believer in dressing up for the holidays.
The Pioneer Woman Run is no longer held on Thanksgiving morning, but that didn't stop Matt and I from taking a quick morning run around Lake Ponca. (don't worry, we didn't run into the Deer Woman) Thanksgiving dinner with the Stangelands
Matt and Bryan playing some basketball
Hanging out in the evening with the fam and celebrating Brianne's birthday.......

Melissa, Laura (my cousin), and I with our great-grandparents.....
Melissa, Laura, and I now.......