Tis the season

Our first Christmas as a married couple= success (:

Since Andy and I met, we have always spent Christmas eve

with grandma & grandpa young.

&Christmas day is spent with my mom & dad.

So the tradition hasn't changed!

On Christmas eve Andy, my father in law, and I worked diligently

on this Nebraska puzzle his grandma bought,

and we ate & opened gifts!

We then visited my dad at Sutter Hospital for a while until he got tired.

The next morning we woke up nice and early and went to my Moms

to open presents.

Santa brought us both a lot of great gifts!

We then went home to open our gifts from eachother.

First time we had our own tree, in our own house, opening gifts

just between the two of us..and it felt great (:

Following that, was some more time spent at Sutter with my dad.

(hes holding in there..)

My mom got Andy and I thee cutest gift! its a little remembrance of our past year together:

Young's vineyard wine

wine barrel ornament

diamond ring

silver purse

silver glass slipper

all held in a sleigh wrapped with garland&lights!

all which reminded her of our special day (:

it was so stinking cute i had to take a picture!!

Us Christmas morning with our

new Santa hats!
Christmas night.

<3

my sisters (:

Christmas 2010.

(:

After a long hard day

I know you cant tell but we actually got a lot done today...

Thankful

I am so thankful for so much these days..

I am thankful for my husband

who is an amazing handyman and can build anything&everything

&is pretty much good at everything else (:

my cousin and best friend who is only 9 months apart from me

(we have been best friends since we were little)

my puppies. who are AMAZING.

my family (&extended family! my husband has great parents)

my mom who is my best friend in the whole world

my dad who is staying strong through his cancer..

(I really didn't think he would even make it to my wedding.. and now 5 months later

still holding on!)

my brother who will be joining the marines in July

&for my job..in this economy I'm STILL able to make some good money (:

my friends.. its funny. i didn't know getting married would change

some relationships i had with friends. but the ones that stuck through it all

are the best ones to have in my life anyway (:

light little snack

It is SO yummy!

&Andy really likes it too! (he tends to be a little on the picky side) (i need a new camera /: these pictures arent the best quality!)
There isn't much to it!
Tomato
Mozzarella cheese
&Pesto sauce
viola!

House arrest

Andy and I (finally) got our little pup fixed.

We put it off for as long as we could, but it was just something that needed to be done.

Although, I didn't realize how much work post surgery would be..

for us!

I have to keep a close watch 24/7 on her so she wont lick the stitches.

She has to sleep with a cone collar so we KNOW she isn't licking them.

The cone doesn't fit in her crate. (she is crate trained to sleep in there at night)

So, Andy has been sleeping with her in the guest room.

I bandage her up everyday so she cant touch it.

She cant jump, run, play, (all of her fave things to do)

poor girl..

phew! Just repeating it all makes me tired all over again!

side note: she wont stay still when I try to take a picture of her with her cone collar..

its kind of cute/sad.

the christmas tree hunt.

So this year I was determined to do the whole cut down your own tree thing!

&&wanted my husband to be the one who did it for me (:

&sure enough.. he did!

&did it good.

This is him post tree cutting.

We (with the company of my cousin & her bf.)

went to Apple hill in search of our tree, because who doesn't

wanna spend the day up in the hills looking for the

perfect Christmas tree.

Well, it turns out we didn't.. So on the way home we stopped by

Slough house and checked out their tree farm & got lucky!

I couldn't even budge on cutting down that tree!

I just love the smell!

(:

this picture cracks me up! it truly says a lot about them!

haha (:

We found the tree! Andy is preparing himself for the big c u t !

getting down to business!

All & all we had a good day.

The Dallas cowboys won (finally)

we had some delicious apple beer&wine.

the weather was amazingly beautiful.

&we got our first tree as a married couple!

Holiday cookies GALORE!

My cousin, Katrina and I cooked some delicious holiday cookies..you know, to get in the

Christmas spirit (:

We made

Gingerbread cookies

sugar cookies with frosting

peanut butter blossoms

&&

snow ball cookies

Although the ginger breads didnt come out so good, but they were kinda fun to make!

Waiting for the cookies to come out in our fancy

Mrs. Clause aprons!


Thee delicious peanut butter blossom cookies!

Brewsky break (:

Katrina thought it was necessary to get proof on me

chopping walnuts!

Frosting time!

Our house smelt like cookies for the next 2 days!!

The Best of Sacramento

Katrina and I went to this Annual event held in downtown Sacramento called

the best of Sac!
Its held in a big convention center, with many different

restaurants, wineries, etc.

It was our first time, and we loved it!

Although the floor was cement, so our feet were KILLING us by the

end of the night..

Just had some famous leatherbys ice cream & champagne!

Walked the runway ..

It was really fun (: