Happy New Year!

Well Happy New Year everybody!  I hope you all enjoyed the holidays and spent some time relaxing with friends and family!  I rang in the new year with a bit of a cold but the stomach flu arrived just in time for school to start back up.   :(  So even though I am not one to make new year's resolutions, I can safely say that if I were to make my new year's resolution to lose 5 pounds by puking my guts out I have been a success!  

Yay!  Not...  

Sorry TMI?

Anyways, you guys don't want to hear about that do you?  No, I didn't think so.  So anyways, because of my slacking at the end of the year, I never did post pictures from our Housewarming Party and a few other things....so I'll play catch up!

WAAAAY back in November, we opened our house up to lots of wonderful people so that many of you could see it in real life :)  The biggest difference people said was that it is smaller in real life than it appears online....yes, haha, that is true.  The rooms are not as gigantic as my camera leads you to believe.  :)  We had a heck of a time getting our furniture to fit with the Christmas tree.  And no, I am NOT downsizing my Christmas tree....that would be terrible! ;)

So here are some pictures of the party and of how the house looked that day :)

Ok this picture isn't exactly the same day....but still :)

The grub.  Thanks to my mom and dad for helping keep the food and drinks going while people came.

Living Room....I could have straightened up the couch for you....but you all need to know that I'm not perfect...lol  The orange lights were my Halloween lights...I told you I've waited a while to post this!

Posting these makes me miss fall already!  But no fear, Valentine's Day is near!

My favorite room!  And not for the reasons you're thinking...you dirty people.

Those are our wedding candles :)

The blue room...it's pretty empty....except for the board game closet! (See below)

 Of course the left side is Brandon's and the right side is mine. Haha!

This is our bright and cheerful guest bedroom!

I LOVE this bedding!  I got it at Ikea.  Of course, Brandon's brother is the only guest who typically sleeps in it...sorry it's so girly Chris :)

And here are a some of pictures I managed to take during the party:

Ok, this is right before :)  It was super formal obviously... ;)

Some family and friends gathered in the kitchen

The in-laws in the living room :)  Nice candid picture I got, haha!

Well, at least Luke smiled!  lol  

So I didn't actually get too many pictures from the party, but a LOT of people came and we had a wonderful time!
Here are some of the nice gifts we got...because I (sincerely) forgot to write "no gifts please" on the invitation:

We certainly appreciated everyone's generosity!

And we got LOTS of yummies!!!  We'll take those anytime by the way...haha

So anyways, we had a wonderful time and I was so glad that people actually came :)  Typical woman here...worrying about that!

And here are the fall photo stragglers that I never did get to post:

Brandon SUPER excited that his baby grass is beginning to grow!  I had to go get the camera because he was so excited :)

Do you see it!?  Ahahaha!

And checking to see if the backyard had any growing...it did :)

 You'll notice the leaves beginning to fall in that last picture....yeah we definitely waited until the LAST day for loose leaf drop off to rake our leaves.  We ended up raking while it snowed and we got soaked and the leaves were HEAVY.  NOT doing that again next year.  Our excuse was that Brandon had a broken wrist...no comments about me :)

HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!  My 3rd favorite holiday after Christmas and Black Friday!

We were Popeye and Olive Oyl (a la Jim and Pam from the Office)

 And last but certainly not least, we have my handsome brother coming over for dinner and then asking if he could perhaps use my iron and ironing board....lol!  Of course Tyler!

Funny.

Well, thanks for reading :)  I will post about Brandon's basement project next time!