There is no doubt, we wouldn't be the people who we are today without each other. We are best friends and are more in love with one another than we ever thought possible. This past year has been amazing and I'm so looking forward to all the years to come with Kyle by my side.
So around 8:30 I swung by the house to pick up Kyle and headed over to Gina's apartment. She's one of the Aspen girls, and there were a bunch of other ladies there that we worked with along with some of her other friends. We had a good time hanging out (isn't that amazing that we work all day together but still look forward to seeing each other at night?) and playing the white elephant game. Kyle and I ended up with a SWEET cat night shirt... HAHAHA.
Umm Kyle was not happy with my choice:
HOW PERFECT is this shirt for me though??
Here are the gals with our presents:
Lacey and I:
Kyle was too, and I was not having it:
It was a hilarious night, fun fun!
Remember how I told you we were volunteering at the Atlanta Union Mission here? Well we did more for that this weekend and this time it was just with the ladies! This weekend I organized a get together for all the n-wed girls to help make fleece blankets for the bunk beds in our room. The workers at the mission have to keep all the rooms so cold to help bacteria and other germs not to spread... so needless to say it's FREEZING in those rooms!
Did I mention how hard of work this really was?? (okay okay so it wasn't hard at all haha)
And the finished products!
We all had a really great time, I'm looking forward to doing it again! 
And here is our tree, Kyle has officially named him "Manie"! It's bigger than we've ever gotten (and last week it fell over while Kyle was out of town... and yes I called him crying b/c there was water everywhere, some broken ornaments and it's SO heavy I could barely lift it), but we just LOVE our tree. Everywhere we travel we have been trying to get ornaments from, so here is our Belize one from our cruise and Wyoming one from our Teton Trip.
These are our most recent purchases from Kohls after thanksgiving sale. I just love them, they are on our mantle ;)
We bought a wreath in Boone when we were getting our tree... I'm not sure why I let myself do that since I'm definitely capable of making one myself with our tree trimmings... BUT we did anyways. I bought some pretty red berry vines and twisted them around the wreath to make it more interesting and colorful. This is what's on our front door! (a little funny story. Our front door has 3 little windows up top. The wreath sticks up halfway up the windows so when Tyson looks at the door from the kitchen he starts growling and creeping towards the door. He thinks it's somebodies head EVERY TIME haha)
And here are the rest of our outdoor decorations!
MAN WE LOVE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS!!
I am so excited about these!! I actually bought 6 stockings the day after Christmas last year at Target, they were on MEGA sale. We have 2 ivory, 2 reds and 2 greens. My friend Jen's sister-in-law has an embroidery machine and since I'm a font freak it took a little while (she had to send me her entire font library so I could choose hahah) but I LOVE the way they came out. Now I just have to find a stocking hanger for Tyson's that matches our other two! Don't you love how it's hanging from our garland right now :)
Kyle took this cute picture on Saturday night after I had gone to sleep. He was laying on the couch and Bella came up to lay with him, then Tyson followed. He snuck away from the couch to take this picture with his camera phone! So cute :)
On Saturday afternoon we met up with my girlfriends from work and their husbands/significant others in Buckhead to watch the Alabama vs. Florida game. We were definitely rooting for Alabama since it's been ingrained in my head from Grandpa to always root AGAINST Florida since we are FSU fans :) It was a fun time, especially since Alabama won!!
Love these girls :)
OH.MY.GOODNESS. WE HAVE A PRINTER!!! As most of you know, I've been obsessing over this for about 2 years now.... and seriously doing research everyday for the past 6 months. We finally decided on THE ONE. Let me introduce you to the Epson Photo Stylus R1900!!
I am so blessed to have a husband that is so supportive of my freelance. Kyle was so excited to buy this for me, while I on the other hand was still being hesitant/freaking out thinking "have I done enough research??!?!". But he ignored me-- pulled the trigger and bought it online yesterday... and it was even on SALE :) I promised him that this was my anniversary, Christmas, and birthday present all in one-- but knowing him, he's probably going to ignore that too! I AM SO EXCITED!!!
