A thankful weekend

I had the best Thanksgiving/days after Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving day we spent an hour or so hanging out at my moms house and then went to Branden's parents to enjoy our turkey and potatoes :) 

(Can we talk about how craptastic these cellphone photos are?)

After enjoying a lovely feast we went home and napped....

Later that night Branden decided to go watch football (woooo!) and clearly I didn't want to join in so I went out to my moms for a little game night. 

A few of us decided to venture out to Wal-mart with all the crazy folks.

We just wanted a new board game, k? 

We ended up buying 2 of thee best. games. ever. 

Have you guys played Quelf? 

I kid you not, this game is freaking hilarious. 

And Headbandz. 

Just by looking at this pic you know this game will be fun. 

I'm a chicken, Ashley is Harry Potter, and Jaylen is a gorilla. 

Playing this with our grandma proved to be quite the challenge. 

Pretty amusing though :)

Some other things that happened this weekend--

Had a craft night and made this cute Christmas decoration...

I made some chocolate chip cookies....

Put up our tree (and it barely fit in our basement)....

Bought some Christmas presents and tried to wrap them extra cute (idea from Pinterest obvi) but it did not turn out exactly as I hoped....

Added some holiday decor to our living room....

How cute are these little Christmas trees??

Branden saw them and said "those are not trees, those are cones"

Wahhhhh! Whatever. I love. 

P.S. I even convinced Branden to hang up Christmas lights on our house!! 

Big thanks to his dad for helping :)

SOOOOO EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS!!

What about you?!

Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Today and always I am thankful for...

Branden.

He is my best friend and I am so happy that he is my husband.

I am so so thankful for him and everything he does for me.

My family. 

Every single one the them. 

I am lucky to have such amazing people in my life.

My health and the health of my loved ones.

Our home.

Our jobs.

Our cars.

Our freedom. 

Food. 

Love. 

Life. 

All of my amazing friends.

A warm bed to sleep in at night. 

A nice hot shower.

Church.

Movies.

Date nights.

Christmas.

EVERYTHING!!!

Basically I am very blessed and so thankful for everything I have. 

I know the list could go on and on but I will leave it there. 

I hope everyone counts their blessings today and tells the people they love, how much they love them. 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

It should be noted...

Branden and I sleep on a queen sized bed (much to his dismay).

We have a king size in our guest bedroom but it literally will not fit in our room. 

Not to mention it is stuck in the basement for the rest of time. 

So anyway... occasionally in the summer we will sleep downstairs because our house gets dang hot. Well summer is over (obviously) and we are back in our actual room.

Every night Branden starts complaining about how bad he hates the bed in our room. 

He seems to think that our bed is too small and that I am a bed hog. 

I just wanted to share this photo as proof that I most certainly am not the bed hog. 

Glad I cleared that up :]

A random post for a Friday

Happy Friday friends!

I don't know about you but Friday always puts me in a good mood.

Even though this morning we woke up to snow. 

If you know me, you know I hate snow.

But guess what? Not today! 

Weirdly enough my hatred of snow is growing less and less. 

I mostly just hate driving in it. 

So, as long as the roads are free of snow, I guess I can deal. 

Yesterday while stopped at an intersection I saw this...

You guys--- I am seriously not a dog person. At all. 

And this just cracked me up. 

This lady had two little dogs climbing all over her while she was driving. 

Like, right up in her face. 

The things I will never understand....

We decided to be obese and go to Denny's for dinner the other day. 

I think Denny's is a love or hate kind of place. 

And gross as it may be, we love it.

((Gross as in it doesn't seem like the cleanest place ever))

Anyway, we pigged out and it was amazeeeee. 

So there is some randomness for your Friday. 

Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!

A near death experience

So let me tell ya about a near death experience we almost had. 

About a month ago I made the cutest sign to hang above our bed. The sign probably only weighs like 3 pounds so I thought it would be safe to velcro it to the wall. 

Sunday morning we woke up considerably earlier than usual (most likely because of daylight savings or possibly just a miracle). When I came home from church later that afternoon this is what I saw....

Ya... let's just say I don't wanna know what would have happened if it would have fallen while we were sleeping. Good stuff. 

The end. 

November? Say what?!

I cannot believe that it is already November. 

I am so excited for all of the holidays!!

Halloween was pretty fun. 

Last year we didn't get any trick-or-treaters 

so I didn't buy any candy this year.

Well what do ya know... we got like 20 this year!

Luckily I had some extra candy hiding in our kitchen. 

We didn't have any parties or anything fun to go to and since we don't have any kiddies we just got to hang out at home. 

We did have a fun night though, ordering Papa Kelsey's, and watching the X Factor. 

Speaking of the X Factor-- has anyone else been watching?? 

I love Emblem 3 but my favorite has got to be Tate Stevens.

He is one of the country singers and he is just the sweetest guy EVER!

Back to Halloween-- 

I am sad to have to take down my Halloween decorations, but excited to start decorating for Thanksgiving, and before you know it.... CHRISTMAS! 

It is so soon!! YAYY!

I hope you all enjoyed Halloween!!

P.s. Does anyone else hate it when holiday's land on a week day? It just makes the rest of the week that much worse. Speaking of... Christmas is on a Tuesday this year. A flippin Tuesday. Who wants to go back to work for 3 more days after Christmas? I surely do not. It's madness.