Christmas Fun

Stephen and I are pretty boring when it comes to Christmas gifts. We typically do all of our own shopping and then wrap our own presents. Our stocking stuffers are the only real surprises we get. This year we finished our Christmas shopping early thanks to a trip to Las Vegas for Thanksgiving.

This Christmas we celebrated Christmas Eve with Stephen's family in Provo. Their tradition is to have tacos and re-enact the nativity. Stephen's sister Lara made awesome nativity costumes for the kids, but I didn't get any photos.

We slept over at Stephen's brother's house on Christmas Eve because we wanted to see the kids open Christmas presents. It was fun watching them open their presents and then helping them put their toys together. We had breakfast at Stephen's Brother's and then went to my brother's house to exchange gifts with my family. Afterwards we went back to Stephen's brother's for dinner and watched Elf. Stephen did a great job stuffing my stocking. This year my stocking stuffers comprised of...

-Beehive Cheese Co Cheese and Rusks

-Peanut M and M's

-A Chocolate Orange

-Riesens

-Socks

-An ornament from Anthropologie

-Pot holders from Anthropologie

-Portugeese Soaps

-Bath bombs and bubble bars from LUSH

-Banksy book

Stephen and I see the lights on temple square every year. This year, we went the same time as Stephen's family. We had dinner at Hires and then walked around temple square. Here are a few shots.

The cute Hemmerts
The Vellingas
The Stewarts
Cute Katherine on Stephen's head

My 3rd annual picture in front of my favorite nativity.

Halloween

This holiday season has been very festive for me. Usually I don't really get into the holidays because I have been in school and haven't really had the time, but this year has been great. It all started in October with Halloween.

For Halloween I usually don't dress up. And if i do dress up, i find something around my house or wear a costume i wore in previous years. This year, thanks to a 25$ gift card to Target from my boss, i purchased a REAL Halloween costume. I thought long and hard about what I wanted to be. I needed to be something timeless that I could wear year after year. And I also wanted a costume that could potentially be a couples costume (assuming Stephen would take the initiative to go costume shopping.)

I decided to be Yoda. I found an awesome Jedi costume from Target in the little boy's section that fit like a glove. And then I went on my search for Yoda ears or headband or something. I visited several Halloween stores, and the only Yoda masks I could find were latex. Deciding that a latex mask wouldn't be best for work at the bank, i decided to scrap the Yoda idea all together and be a regular Jedi. Here is my costume.

We celebrated Halloween at Stephen's parent's house. We had "body part soup" for dinner, which was soup in a pumpkin bread bowl with plastic body parts, and then built a haunted house in the basement. Here are a few pictures.

Spooky witch Elizabeth

Joshua was a Chinese man.

Here are Harry Potter and Dracula reading Calvin and Hobbs.

Donnette Perkins gave Talisa Vistaunet and I tickets to see Dracula at pioneer theatre in Salt Lake. It was great! but a little scary. I also saw Thriller at Kingsbury hall with Stephen's family. It wasn't very scary, but pretty fun.

Dear Santa

Things I want for Christmas....
I would love this Kate Spade "Upstate Fillipa" Cross-Body bag in Eggplant.

Lush is Lush is Lush is the best!

Essie nail polish, especially J.Crew's colors for this season.


Will I get Flowerbomb in my stocking this year???

Leopard print Sammie flats from Banana Republic. Love them.

What do YOU want for Christmas???

P.S. Thank you Heidi for the inspiration!