Christmas is Here!!

Ok, well not yet...but only two more wake-ups! These past couple of weeks have completely flown by. I feel like we barely just got finished with the wedding and Thanksgiving! On that note, I am now a one month old newlywed!! We have officially had our first fight as a newlywed...and I must admit, it was due to me being an emotional girl. Go figure. Anyway, this Christmas week has been fabulous. Last Friday night, my BFF Lewis came to visit us!! We havent seen him since the wedding, so it was so nice to be able to spend some time with him. I made enchiladas which were absolutely AMAZING. Seriously, the beset homemade enchiladas I have ever had, and that is considering that I am normally biased towards my Mom's enchiladas.

After dinner, we went out with my love Kim, and her friend David, to Rebels Honkytonk. Yes I know, the name is extrememly annoying...but its a lot of fun! Saturday, we cleaned the apartment and relaxed around the house. Sunday, we finished ALL of our Christmas shopping. We woke up with the dertermination to SHOP. Oh, and on a side note...I wrapped all of the presents Sunday night by myself. Adam doesnt get any credit for the wrapping...just FYI. Ok, on another side note, as some of you know...Benny the baby dog has a staph infection. As a part of his medical routine, we have to bathe him in special medicated shampoo every 3 days. Well, by his second bath, Benny had already had enough. After bathing him in the shampoo, we have to let him soak for 10 minutes. The picture below is of Benny soaking in the tub, while crying and giving me evil looks.

After this bath, Benny turned into crazy evil child. He was very sweet while he was being cuddled in the towel, but after that....he ran into the guest bedroom, jumped on the couch, and PEED on it. Yes, he peed on it...all the while he was glaring at me. I started at him in shock that he was actually peeing on the cushion right in front of me! He then made his way into the living room where he stopped by the Christmas tree, and ripped off an ornament. He ripped a glass ornament off the tree and threw it on the ground!!! It was hard for me not to laugh at his behavior, so Adam did the punishing. It is still kind of funny to me.

Anyway, thats my funny story for the week! We are leaving tonight for Conroe, and will have Christmas Eve with my family tomorrow night. We are having Christmas with Adam's Mom which we are both really excited about. We have never spent Christmas day with her, so we are looking forward to starting a new tradition. Oh, and we leave for our honeymoon on Sunday!!! This time next week we will be in Jamaica!!! Ahh we cant wait. For now, I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas! I love you all, and am very thankful for all of your love and friendship you have provided this year. See you in 2010!!

It was a SUCCESS!!!!!

I officially made my first successful dinner as a wife!! I'm not saying that it's a wife's job to cook, but I do like to feel like I'm doing something nice for my husband. OK first things first, weekend recap:

Friday - Adam had Toys for Tots, I went to a Kortnee's house to watch Christmas movies
Saturday - Benny got a staph infection, lunch, Kortnee's, Toys for Tots
Sunday - IHOP for breakfast!!! gym, grocery store, got to see my Joey!, Adam studied, I made dinner!!

Our new favorite thing is to eat breakfast at IHOP on Sundays. Although we have only done this the past two Sundays, I am still going to classify this as our new favorite thing.

OK, so my first meal I decided to make this week was......................................................................................
CHICKEN SPAGHETTI!!!!!

I sat down and organized my grocery list before I got to the store, so I was able to get all of my ingredients that I need for this week's dinners.

I was so proud of myself because I used our grown up knives, and I did not cut myself! I also used our new chopping board that Mrs. B got us!!

This was the finished product after everything was mixed together. Please excuse the picture quality. Our camera got stolen, along with everything in my purse.

Yummyy!! Adam even ate it...he hates onions and veggies!

Afterwards, we put ingredients into the crock pot for our dinner which we will be having tonight! It is a surprise until I figure out how successful we were. I will be featuring it on the blog tomorrow though.

After dinner, we decided to eat some of our wedding cake. It has been sitting in our fridge for the past 3 weeks, and we decided something needed to be done with it. I know you're supposed to save the top of the cake until your one year anniversary...oh well, just means we will have to buy more cake!

So Pretty! I was sad to see it go!

We both took a couple bites of the cake and made a wish. I'm not sure if you're supposed to make a wish...just seemed like the right thing to do.

I hope everyone has a good Monday! At least it's almost Friday:)

Happy Friday..on a serious note

This picture has been provided by the fabulous Mr. Ben

I cannot believe Friday is FINALLY here! This week has seemed to last forever. Here is our week in review:

Sunday - Had a late night McDonalds chicken nugget dinner..comfort food

Monday - heard GREAT news for my Dad, ate mission burrito and drank a beer in celebration

Tuesday - sliced open my finger trying to cut bread..Adam bandaged me up and was a very good husband

Wednesday - tried to make our first crock pot meal and it failed miserably. We ate Papa Johns instead.

Thursday - Both of us ate for $3.58 at Subway!

This weekend Adam has Toys for Tots with the Marines. I'm hoping to get my Christmas shopping finished up...we always wait until the last minute!

I know it is not Thanksgiving anymore, but sometimes its nice to think about the things you are thankful for. I have been keeping up with one blog in particular, and I recommend you reading this. Be warned, it is a very sad story, but has many positive outlooks throughout. Every time I read one of the posts, it reminds me that I have a lot to be thankful for in my life. Although things are not always ideal or perfect, you can always find a positive in some way. The blog  The Sullivans , is about a young man who just welcomed his baby girl into the world, and lost his wife a couple weeks later. The posts start in 2008, and I recommend you reading from the beginning. This story goes to show that you never know what can happen in life, and you should make the best out of each day.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Domestic Godess

I think I'm pretty much in love with the Pioneer Woman blog! I just spent the past hour deciding what our menu for next week is going to be. She does step by step pictures of what she is cooking to make it easy for beginners domestically challenged wives  like me! Anyway, take a look at her website, its great. My menu next week is chicken spaghetti, enchiladas, and stir fry. I also have two crock pot meals mixed in there too. Enjoy!