Aww Shucks - Diary of a Mrs.: 12.12

12.21.2012

Merry Christmas!

Merry, Merry friends!!

I'm officially on Christmas Break & soaking up every precious moment of it! B is off work, too, from now until the new year! We have a total of 14 nights together...it's almost too good to be true!

My sweet view last night :)

We're hosting my family's Christmas at our house this year & our first guests, my BFF/sister/cousin Erin & her hubby Ryan, arrive tonight!! We've shopped and cleaned and prepped and we're so excited!!!

And on the 26th, we're Michigan bound to repeat all the fun with B's family! Dog, presents & all :)

I hope you get everything you hoped for & more for Christmas! And that you get to be with the ones you love the most!

I'll be signing off from now until the new year, so I wanted to wish you & yours a very, very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

12.17.2012

Christmas Card Carousel 2012

Merry Christmas friends!!

I'm linking up once again with Faith's blog for her 5th Annual Christmas Card Carousel! You can see last years post with our 2011 and 2010 cards here.

Our card is from Jessi at Naptime Diaries print shop. And I just love the finished product, sweet & simple :)

These two festive cuties aren't on the card, but wanted to be sure to wish you a Merry Christmas as well!!

I finally got all the cards printed today {I've been uh...er...behind this year!} & they'll be in the mail tomorrow!

And since I can't send one to everyone, consider this our virtual Christmas Card, from my family straight to yours!

Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas!!

12.16.2012

Lately: 'Tis the Season

'Tis the Season y'all!!

To be busy of course!! And since I'm a little behind on blogging, again, thought I'd do a little Lately Christmas Edition post to play catch up!

'Tis the Season to Travel - Last weekend we flew up to Michigan for B's Work Christmas Party! We had such a good time with everyone!! B's company sure knows how to throw a party - this year was themed 'A Country Christmas' complete with line dancing & a photo booth!

Photobooth fun!

'Tis the Season for Ornament Exchanges - Last week, I went to 2 fun ornament exchanges!!

My ornaments ready to be exchanged!
{And the pretty glitter tags Andrea & I made!}

The first was a Charlotte Blogger Girls Ornament Exchange! Classic Annie was so sweet to organize it all! We met up at Aria for dinner and drinks. It was so fun to see some great blog friends again & meet some new blogger girls for the first time!

All the girls {minus Rach who had to get back to her baby girl!}
See Annie's recap to get the links to each girls' blog!

The second was an Ornament Exchange with some girlfriends from school! My friend Lacey hosted us at her house & she had quite the spread!

And each calorie was was so worth it! ;)

I brought a Ham & Pineapple Cheese Ball that I've made several times before, it's super easy and super yummy! {Recipe here} I didn't take any other pictures the whole night, just enjoyed hanging out with some sweet teacher friends outside of school for a change!

The new pretties that adorn our tree! :)

'Tis the Season to Induldge - The party spread in that pic above is exactly what I'm talking about! The Holidays come with eating, there's just no avoiding it :/ I'm trying to be as "good" as I can, my breakfasts, lunches & dinners during the week are still Paleo, but all the snacks at school and the parties - I still have to indulge a little!

'Tis the Season to Enjoy - I'm loving all our decorations! My pillow covers finally came in and I've finally gotten to some gift wrapping. Only a few presents left to be bought and a handful left to wrap!

Alien eyed Berkley & presents under the tree!!

'Tis the Season to Celebrate - Tomorrow I'll share with you our Christmas card {even though they have yet to be sent out!! Grrr...that's another story!}, B has 3 workdays this week & I'm down to 4, then we're both off for almost 2 whole weeks!! Friday, there will be much cleaning and baking going on :) Family starts to arrive on Saturday, as well as our dining room table {finally!!!}, and I'm excited to celebrate this wonderful season! So much to be thankful for this year!

Time to curl up on the couch and enjoy what's left of my Sunday night! Merry week before Christmas, friends!!

12.07.2012

Friday's Letters

Dear Friday, It never fails, you're just as wonderful each week! It's rainy here today & I'm looking forward to making a hot dinner and curling up on the couch to a movie! Dear Michigan, We're jet settin' to your neck of the woods tomorrow for B's work Christmas Party. I'm excited to wear my new dress, red cowgirl boots, and get my line dance on. Apparently, the theme this year is "A Country Christmas"! I'm ready to show these Michiganders how it's done ;) Dear Christmas Cards, We've yet to decide on a picture for you so unless we get one this weekend, we're sunk! Maybe we'll just send out a picture of Berkley. He's pretty darn cute! Dear Instagram, You're probably my favorite form of social media, but this parody video that my friend Ashley shared with me makes me pee my pants laughing!! Literally. Ok not actually, literally, but it's hysterical! Half of it describes pictures I'm completely guilty of posting, but I'm totally ok with that. Go watch! Oh and you can follow me @mrsshuck on Instagram :) Dear Husband, I'm really glad you didn't need your appendix out last night, or anything else remotely serious. You make even a triage room in an ER fun! I love this life with you! xoxo

Grab your pin & link up with Ashley! Happy Friday friends!

12.05.2012

Christmas Craft Wine-o Wednesday!

Happy hump day friends!!

It's been a super busy front half of the week, so I gladly welcome the half way point! To celebrate, my friend Andrea's coming over & we're having our 1st Annual Christmas Craft Wine-o Wednesday!!

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If you know me, you realize I'm really not crafty at all, so this may very well be the 1st & last annual Christmas Craft event! Haha, but definitely not the last Wine-o Wednesday - let's be real, I'm really good at that ;)

We're going to attempt to make fun Christmas glitter tags, much like these...

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...using fun Christmas colors!! We plan to blast some Pandora Christmas Radio, maybe watch the Yule Log, indulge in a glass or 2 of wine & relax! Amen? Amen!!

Hope your week is going swimmingly.....I'm treading water and reminding myself...

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12.04.2012

Our 2nd Year in Pictures

Now that's is two weeks past our anniversary, I thought it was high time I get around to blogging Our 2nd Year in Pictures! Whoops!

I stole this idea last year from Megan over at Tales of the Trees and wanted to make it a yearly tradition. You can see last year's post (2011) here. So to keep the tradition going....

Our 2nd Year in Pictures