Last Blog of the Year!

I absolutely adore Christmas.  I love giving presents, and seeing my family's reactions when they open them! I asked Cory's sister what she wanted for Christmas this year, and she said she didn't know what to ask for, because I always give the best gifts! :)

Last Friday night we headed home to my parents' (about an hour and a half drive, so not so bad), to have our little Christmas on Saturday morning.  My mom was excited to have all of the kids home, and it was nice to be able to spend the night! :)  We visited my grandparents too, since we weren't going to be able to make theirs on Christmas Eve.
Then we headed back up to La Crosse, because I had to work until noon on Christmas eve.  Both Cory's mom and I work at Gundersen Lutheran, and the clinics were only open until noon, so then we headed to her house for dinner and presents!  I never know what to ask for, so I got a lot of cute stuff for our house :)  Then, the family sat down to play some intense rounds of Michigan Rummy, and of course, we forgot our nickels!  Next year, we will dominate!

Cory's Step-Grandma got me a pearl necklace,
complete with the pearl still in the clam!  That thing was a  buggar to open!  That's Cory's
little brother Dillon watching over me :)

We really didn't take many pictures this Christmas, which is surprising because I got Cory a new camera!  Geez, what a slacker!

Then Christmas morning we woke up and went to Cory's dad's house for a breakfast of delicious waffles cooked by his step mom.  We got a toaster oven from them!  I am definitely looking forward to moving so we have a place to put all of the awesome new stuff that we got! 

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and I wish you the best in 2013!

'Tis the Season!

What a tizzy my life has been lately!  I suppose the holidays will do that to you!  We had a crazy blizzard here on Thursday... well ok, it really didn't turn out to be that crazy.. south of here got a lot more snow!  I ended up with a snow day from the mall, apparently it was dead, so my manager called and told me not to come in, which I was not going to argue with!  All the parents picking up their kids said the roads were awful, so I just wanted to head home.

We finished up our Christmas shopping today, nothing like last minute!  But, we just had to get a couple of gift cards, so it wasn't so bad.  Plus, I still have to finish up a pair of slippers for Cory's grandma, but I should be able to have them done before I head to work at 3.  Hopefully with it being the Sunday before Christmas, time will fly and I'll be home in no time.

It's hard to believe that I've been on WW for 2 months, almost 3.  I haven't decided if I am going to continue with my subscription or not.  I feel like until I can invest my time and exercise, that I am not going to really get anywhere with dieting alone.  I have lost 7 pounds, and maintained that loss, so that makes me feel really good!  I am hoping to join a gym after the holidays, or get out there and start walking again.. it's just hard to do that when it's so darn cold out, and I don't get home until after it's dark.  I do have some work out videos (ok, am I dating myself or what?!  They really are dvds.. lol) that I enjoy doing, just have to find room to do it since we have such a HUGE coffee table now!  I know, listen to those excuses!  My New Year's resolution?  NO MORE EXCUSES.  I can do this!  Rumor has it there's a free gym on campus for employees to use, I need to look into that!


Happy Holidays fellow bloggers from myself & Cory.. and our fur babies, Bubba & Masha! :)

We clean up pretty nice ;)

Bubba loves Thirty-One!

And Masha loves attention!

Happy December!

So, I'm kind of bad at this blogging thing!  I would love to have time to blog every day, or even every other, but darn retail job will keep me busy until after Christmas!  I just keep thinking of how awesome my paychecks will be!

First up, weigh-in day!  It was my "recovery" week after Thanksgiving, and I am hoping to be awesome for these next few weeks so I can be doing well going in to Christmas.  This week, I'm down 2 pounds for a total weight loss of 7 pounds.  I can't really tell that I've lost weight yet.. so I'm looking for a way to begin working exercise into my schedule so I can keep kicking butt!

Cory and I got our first Christmas Tree today!  I've never had a live tree before, my family only had an artificial one growing up, and last year, we just had a little one that I bought for my apartment when I lived alone. I plan on taking that to my classroom and putting it up, hopefully our kids will leave it alone!  I also found a bunch of window clings at Wal-Mart to decorate with, and a co-worker is giving me a ton of decorations!  I'm excited to start collecting things, because some of the girls have been teaching for years, and have beautiful decorations that I really can't afford right now.

Here is our tree!

I love our tree!  It was only $15, I had no idea trees were so inexpensive!  I have a bunch of ornaments that mom gave me from when I was growing up, and a few that I bought myself.  I'm not quite ready to put the breakable ones on yet, because I'm not sure how the kitties will react, but they have been very good so far!  It smells soo good in my house, I am loving it! :)