Christmas W/ The Valantines

Christmas this year was really new for me. I wanted to jump on the same track that my sister was on so we decided this was the "In-Law Christmas". Christmas is a big deal to me so i was a little nervous about letting go of my traditions and set ways of ule tide celebrations and open up to a WHOLE new way of celebrating Christmas. Turns out (like usual) I was in panic for no reason. It was REALLY fun to have something different, especially with my new family. My favorite part was on christmas eve they drive around and see all the best lights in town! I had no idea that people could set lights to music and sink them to your radio in your car!!!

Here are some pics from Christmas morning. 

( my blog is being retarded so i have to do it this way. sorry for the inconvenience)

#1- brandon opening a gift from me... it's one of the many movies he (I) have been wanting :)

#2- I was very surprised when my puppy came and jumped on my lap with this new due.... i guess Charley kept taking off with the new hair moose that matt got so he decided if she wanted it SO badly he'd just go ahead and give her a mohawk

#3- because the crime rate in cedar city utah is SO HIGH brandon found it necessary to get a "Glock" for Christmas. ( for those like me, thats a gun) and for some reason his dad agreed... so this is brandon on christmas shooting his new gun lol ... boys....

New Bridal Session!

Hi everyone! I put up a new bridal session on my photography blog! go check it out!

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Bargin Shopper!!

So for our wedding we got A LOT of Target gift cards, and Brandon just so happened to work at target. So after we got married he saw this HUGE grill that he was just dying to get so he watched it at work and realized there was a dent! DISCOUNT! then he was told anything that was on our registry that we didn't get it 10% off! so (even though we were already married) he went and registered for it! DISCOUNT! Then he realized he also had a employee discount! DISCOUNT! THEN he found out that employees get and EXTRA 10% of f in august for "back to school" stuff! DSCOUNT! So... this $200 grill he got for a grand total of $98!!! He was so excited to get it! Here is brandon and his brother carey on his grills maiden voyage :)

Distractions

Whenever I stop playing with Charley and start to do things I actually NEED to do she'll do the funniest things to get me distracted again. This is what she does when i do laundry. She'll lay on top of the pile I'm working on and refuse to move! 

CHRISTMAS TIME!

I am one of those people that dust off my Christmas Albums in October and watch the same Christmas movie once a week for 6 weeks. I have had to physically stop myself from putting Christmas stuff up before Thanksgiving but now it's fair game! So I decorated the house for christmas the other day!

This is our little tree :) In my family we have a tradition where we collect an ornaments from the big things we do in a year and Brandon and I have started to do that.

This ornament is from us getting engaged. Brandon asked me to marry him in a hot air balloon that looked just like this!

This is our ornament for Charleys first Christmas :)

This is when we went to Florida with my family for our vacation this summer.

This one is from our trip to Hawaii with Brandons family.

This is the wreath I made with my mother in law Jody. We had a lot of fun putting it together! I think it turned out pretty good!

OUR NEW PUPPY!!!! (and thanksgiving)

This is our new puppy!! her name is CHARLEY! Brandon and I got her on our way up to SLC for Thanksgiving break!! She's 10 weeks old, a Wheaten Terrier, a BIG snuggler, and CANNOT (for the life of herself) figure out how to go potty OUTSIDE!! but she is SO SO SOOOO CUTE and we couldn't be happier with having her around!

CHARLEY

VALANTINE

This is me and Charley getting ready for Thanksgiving Dinner :)

We have an annual Turkey Bowl game with the

Fondas Harris's Krolls and bennions every year. It gets pretty competitive. I don't play because only the good people can play but i'm happy to run the camera and sit with the dogs.

Charley took off with one of the sideline cones and started running with it. ha ha ha ha it was too funny!

Natalie, Mom and I snuck off to the gateway for a few hours and had some fun shopping together :) I'm getting this coat for Christmas Shhhh.....

The weird things my husband does...

Brandon and I dated for about a year and a half before we got married and i honestly thought i knew EVERYTHING about him. But since we've been living together i've been starting to learn more and more new things about him i had no idea he did. 

So this post i'm going to keep adding on to. It's going to be about the weird, funny, hilarious things that my husband does.

heres the first....

this morning i woke up after brandon did (he gets up early to study & i get up early enough to get to school (some what) on time.) I told him goodbye and left for school, I got home from school before he did and when i walked in a realized the pants he was wearing when i left that morning were on the middle of the living room floor?... I texted him

Me: "so... i've been meaning to ask? why are the pants you were wearing this morning in the middle of the living room?"

Brandon: "cause i changed my clothes out by the tv.... 

i was watching ESPN and CSI miami ha ha ha"

ha ha ha ha ha ha

I think i'll keep him :)