The best of 2012 in photos

Goodbye 2012!!

Hello 2013!!!

Happy New Year!

Christmas recap

Christmas eve we ate pizza and wings and opened presents over at Branden's parents house. No pics-- but we got spoiled with lots of good stuff! 

Christmas morning we woke up early (too early for us) and opened our stockings from "Santa" ;)

I gave-- I mean, Santa gave Branden a hunting themed stocking. 

He even got a little riffle that is actually a lighter!

Gotta love the gag gifts :)

After we saw what Santa brought us we opened our gifts from each other.

I love buying Christmas gifts/any gifts for Branden. 

It's the best to see if I can surprise him! 

--Random icicle the almost killed me before we went to Branden's parents for some delicious breakfast burritos!! Yummm! 

After breakfast we went to Branden's grandpas for a few hours and then we were off to my moms to open gifts and have dinner with my family. 

Ash and Casey with the baby gifts from Gma and Gpa Petersen. 

Next Christmas we will have a little baby nephew to love on!

We had a great Christmas and were very blessed to spend it with most of our family. 

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and has a happy New Year!

Twas the week before Christmas

Here I stand in line at the post office yesterday. 

There were 13 people in front of me (doesn't look like much but trust me)

and by the time I was at the front of the line there were 20 people behind me. 

Everyone with packages they were most likely sending off to someone they love for Christmas. 

Me? I had 1 Christmas card going to Japan, which ended up only needing one normal stamp. 

Who would have guessed? 

6 more days, people! 6 days!! 

I'm getting super excited for Christmas.

Yay!

What's with the stache, you might ask?

Basically I don't even know.
He doesn't want to shave it though.

Besides the fact that I really hate the mustache I just have to say, especially on nights like tonight, I am so happy this hunka burnin mustache love married me.

I just kinda really really like him.

:)

Hooray for the weekend!

Here are my plans for the weekend......

Finish Christmas shopping and wrapping all of our gifts so that our living room no longer looks like Santa's workshop! 

At least it's a fun mess. 

Ho ho ho!

Have a very merry weekend everyone!

Wrap it up!

This weekend Branden and I did some Christmas shopping. 

We didn't actually get a whole lot of shopping done unfortunately but I did get a couple of the gifts I bought on Black Friday wrapped and put under our tree.

Usually I will wrap all of the gifts in fun red wrapping paper. 

This year I decided (thanks to some pinsperation-- Pinterest inspiration) that I wanted to wrap everything in brown paper with red and white twine. 

I am in love with the way they turned out!! 

I found these cute gift tags on Pinterest. 

Click here to download! 

After I put the gifts under the tree I took Branden to see what he thought. 

He said "It's just brown paper" 

He obviously doesn't realize what is in style these days. 

He told me he was wrapping mine in newspaper, which I told him is also pretty "in" right now. 

Basically under our tree is gonna be looking goooood. 

Is anyone else doing something different with their wrapping?? 

Or are you strictly wrapping paper type people??