Blogger = FAIL!

I guess my break from blogging has resulted in me missing out on some updates and changes to blogger. Needless to say I am very frustrated as I have not been able to figure out all of the changes!! What is the most frustrating is the fact that I cannot find a way to edit the font/color of my entire blog. It used to be so simple and easy... and I'd really rather stay away from dealing with html code!! But what is the most frustrating thing is that blogger refuses to keep me logged in. No matter what I do, I have to keep logging back in to my account. GRRR!!!

Holiday Recap

Now that Christmas has come and gone I finally have some free time to get back to blogging. The month of December was absolutely nutty for me. I only spent about 7 days in Raleigh!! I flew out and spent about 10 days with Ryne the week before Christmas. It was great being able to celebrate Christmas together. I am so excited and happy that this was our last holiday being apart!! Next year we will be married and we will be doing our holidays together!!

While I was out with Ryne we put up and decorated our Christmas tree together. The past few years we have picked out smaller trees that tended to have that Charlie Brown feel to them. But this year we decided to go big and ended up with a beautiful 8' tree!!

The tree was so much bigger than what we had that we barely had enough lights and we also ran short on ornaments! In fact, we had to go out and pick up a few more ornaments to add to the tree so that we could fill out the tree!! We ended up with a beautiful tree that was overflowing with presents!!



After a quick pit stop in Raleigh (I had to go back for graduation) I flew home to the Cape for Christmas with my family! I thankfully arrived a day ahead of a snow storm. Despite the fact that they were only calling for a dusting of snow, the Cape got 13" of a very HEAVY, wet snow!! It was very beautiful!!

Rob & Margaux spent with Christmas with us this year. We also had my cousins and some family friends join us on Christmas day for dinner so we had a full house. It was a wonderful day filled with lots of happy memories!!

Christmas Shopping

I do not know what it is about this year but for once I am ahead of the game. My Christmas cards arrived in the mail yesterday. All I have to do now is address them and throw them in the mail. And lucky me already has the address labels printed and ready to go (one perk about planning a wedding is that it forces you be organized!!). I am not only ahead of the game with my cards this year but I am almost done with my Christmas shopping!! Yes... you read that correctly. My Christmas shopping is more or less done!! I only have two gifts left to buy and I know exactly what they are. It's just a matter of me getting to the right store and making the purchase. And what a good feeling that is!! Of course wrapping presents is all different ball game since I will be doing Christmas in Nebraska and on the Cape. I will just have to wait to wrap the gifts at each location.

After work today, I am going to put up the garland on my front porch, hang from wreath, and put my Christmas flag out. Not very many homes in my neighborhood are decorated yet but I would like to get the outside of my house looking festive early so that I can enjoy it!!

Now that I am falling back into my blogging routine, I will start posting more regularly on my wedding plans. I was able to finalize so many of my plans over Thanksgiving so it will be fun to share and document all of our decisions and plans. Stay tuned for all of that!