..And the Stockings were Hung.."

So this year our friend Leslie was going to make stockings with her mom and I loved that idea since our stockings are UNC, that was given to Ryan as a joke the first Christmas we had together when we were dating...and a Gonzaga one. Not exactly very festive for the holiday and Starsky didn't have one. On the day Leslie went to her mom's to do the stockings I couldn't make it so I cut the outline of the stockings and then Leslie gave them to her mom to sew for us. They look so great I can't wait for Santa to come and leave all sorts of goodies. I couldn't find anything cute and festive to hang the stockings on so they're on a mirror that we usually hang our coats on but they turned out so great! I'm so glad that Laura was kind enough to put these together for us.

Starsky's is in the middle and those spots are supposed be to little black dog paws. Still not sure which stocking is going to be Ryan's or mine.

 Today my friend Katie came over and helped make some sugar cookies with me and here are a few of them. Luckily our double batch didn't make as many as expected so I won't be pigging out of them too much. :)

We aren't doing anything too exciting for the holidays. Unfortunately I have to work on Christmas so we're going to spend time with my parents in Farmington for Christmas eve and hopefully they won't call me in to work on Christmas so I can spend the day with Ryan's family. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!

♥ Honeymoon Time ♥

Since Ryan and I got married when I was still in school we weren't able to take the honeymoon we really wanted and then decided we were going to wait until this spring to go and now Ryan and I finally booked our trip to Orlando! We'll be going in the middle of march and I'm SOO excited. First order of business when we get there is to go to "the wizarding world of harry potter" where i'll try butter beer and buy a wand from Ollivanders Wand Shop where somehow....the wand chooses you. Just like the book! I can't wait! Ryan's not the greatest Harry Potter fan....really not at all. I don't think he's watched a full Harry Potter movie so I'll be working on him the next few months to watch the movies so he can fully appreciate Harry Potter land hahaha.
Here's a cool picture I liked of Harry Potter land.

And one day we'll make a trip out to the Kennedy Space Center but those are our only two concrete plans for the moment. I realized after we booked the trip that we'll be there over St. Patty's day so I'm going to have to look up and see if they're doing anything fun for the holiday. A few of the people I work with have been to disney world and have a book about different things to do that they're going to let me borrow so I'm sure we'll come up with way to many things to fit into the week that we're there. :)

I hope everybody has a Merry Christmas!

Fun Starsky Pictures

So Ryan and I did open presents last week and I got him a new lens for him camera and we took it out on Saturday for our weekend routine of taking Starsky to the park to play fetch and we got some gooood pictures that I thought I'd share with you all :)

                                                              Action Shot!!

 

                                            This last one is one of my favorites!!
We had to hover the ball around the camera so we could actually get some decent pictures but we got some pretty funny ones.

Christmas Time

So Ryan and I decided to upgrade to a slightly larger Christmas tree this year and I do love it. Our place is so so tiny that we don't have a lot of extra space to put Christmas decorations so the larger tree does make it feel a little more festive in here.

And I doubt that there will be many more present under our tree since Ryan and I NEVER make it to christmas to open our presents. Last year we came close and opened them I think the week OF Christmas and we'll probably open presents we got for each other tonight if his present arrives today. It says "In transit" on UPS so I'm hoping :) And since we were in the Christmas spirit and our tradition is not to open presents we buy for each other on christmas....we thought we'd give Starsky his present early. We got him a nice new big dog bed!! He has two beds...one in our bedroom and one in the living room. The one in the bedroom is super super flat and does not look comfy and he's slept on it for 2 1/2 years so we upgraded him. Costco had memory foam dog beds so we had to do it. Here's a few pictures of him. Sorry for the quality....took these on my phone. And don't mind the mess in the background of one of these!

 Unfortunately....the place his dog bed usually goes is now where our christmas tree is....and he still prefers the couch to this nice bed....go figure. He loved it when we first got it and now he wants the couch. So we'll be working on him!