MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Things were different this year as it was my first Christmas away from my family!! The great part about it though was that we got to spend it here at home with Ryan's Family!! Ryan and I opened our gifts from each other on Christmas Eve, then Christmas morning we had his family come over to our house for breakfast and to open gifts here! We then headed over to his parents house for Turkey dinner and lots of fun games!! Everyone keeps asking me everything that i got for Christmas so here is the list from Ryan and his family, as we have yet to open gifts from my family yet! p.s. I totally got spoiled

From Ryan:

A heated mattress pad (BEST THING EVER!!)

A blanket and pillow case that he made (so i don't have to steal his anymore)

The new Ipod Touch

Arbonne Sea salt scrub (also the best thing ever!!)

Satsuma hand lotion, and soap set from the Body Shop

Satsuma and strawberry body butter from the Body Shop

And a case for my Ipod

From his family:

A Volcum Toque

A sweet HOT PINK ice cream maker with a candy crusher built in!!

(with tons of candy to go with it)

A nail stamp Set

A Roxy hat

A metal wall picture
and a cute little fondue set!

Gingerbread Houses!!!

On December 21st we had our 2nd Annual Gingerbread House competition!! One day i mentioned that i had never made a gingerbread house before so we decided to have a fun night to build some. Last year it ended up becoming a singles competition where we each built our own houses, and posted them on Facebook to let everyone vote on their favorites (Ryan claims that we tied for 1st place, but i think i won!) haha!! This year we did a couples competition so Ryan and I put our mad construction skills together and came up with a masterpiece!

Picture #1 shows the single detached garage with the BMW parked in the long driveway. Large front windows and the beautiful structure of the home!!

Picture #2, shows the inside view which consists of a fireplace (shown) a Christmas tree, a couch and a little man!

Picture #3 shows Santa and his sleigh full of toys on the roof!

2007 Gingerbread House Singles Competition:

Ryan's Masterpiece Tabitha's Masterpiece

Missing Jonathon!!

Not that i don't miss all my other nephews and niece, but for some reason when i woke up today I really missed Jon!! I think it's the fact I wouldn't get to see him on Christmas or even until later in the new year!! It seems like every time i go back home to see everyone he is always gone down to his dads for that weekend. I just really miss hanging out with him, and his goofy little smile and laugh!!

Last time I was home we were playing down in his room with Jada and Ashton and i couldn't believe how patient he is with them....they were terrorizing his room and he likes things to be set up just the 'right' way....so he was running around after them saying "aawww don't touch that" "Get down from there!" "aww man why'd you guys do that!" It amazed me how patient he was to just follow them around and straighten up after them. Usually when a 10 year old gets mad at their 5 year old sister and 3 year old brother they would just kick them out, beat them up, and yell at them, but not Jon he had so much patients and realized the were having so much fun playing in his room he let them stay!!

It also amazes me how much he knows....that same day we needed a screw driver to put new batteries in his remote control truck. So here I am thinking I'm the 'grown up' the only one who will know what the right screw driver is how to work it....so I'm digging threw his box of screw drivers trying to find the right one,....meanwhile he grabs one and i say to him "that wouldn't work" and go back to digging for the right one....a few minutes later i proudly announce "I got it".....then all of sudden here comes this remote control truck running over my foot!! hahaha, he had already got the screws off, replaced the batteries and screwed it all back together!!! (not to say that I'm the most 'handy' women out there, but i really thought i would know more about a screw driver then a 10 year old!)

He just amazes me how grown up he is now! For Christmas Ryan and I got this "Monster" riding jersey for him, and i can't wait to give it to him! he'll absolutely LOVE it...the only thing that really sucks is that we wouldn't be there to watch him open it...someone will have to record it and post it on facebook for us to watch!!

Anyways I just want to say how much i love and miss this little guy!!
*** Love Auntie Tabby!! ***

8 Days until Christmas

OMG only 8 more days until Christmas and I am still SO far away from having all my Christmas shopping done!!!

I am now officially beyond stressed and do not know how people can do this to themselves all the time and be last minute shoppers!! Usually i have finished shopping, wrapped all the presents and have them all under the tree before December even begins!!!

Anyways just wanted to remind everyone that TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!!!
CHRISTMAS DAY WILL BE HERE IN 7 MORE SLEEPS!!!

BURRRR!!!!!

Last night it got down to -40.....MINUS FORTY DEGREES CELSIUS..... way to cold for my liking!!!! But i guess it is the middle of December, so like it or not winter is here!! Ryan is nice enough to let me park in the garage, so lucky I only have to brave the cold for about 2 minutes at a time, and that is only when running into and outta stores / the house! However i really did feel how cold it was when i left the salon in a pair of disposable flip flops today.... Ryan bought me a gift certificate to the spa to get a massage, pedicure and facial a few months ago, and i finally just got in to do the pedicure...obviously not thinking about the fact that i would have to leave the spa in disposable flip flops so i didn't smug my perfectly polished toes! ..... now that was COLD. The estitition was so sweet though, she went out and shoveled a nice little path right to my truck door for me!! how sweet eh!!

Anyways the cold weather and tons of snow gets me in the spirt for Christmas, so i thought i would post some pictures of our lovely Christmas tree'S this year....and a few of our scabby looking one that we had two years ago!

Two years ago was our first Christmas together and Ryan has always had real trees and i had always had fake ones...so after days of convincing I finally agreed to getting a real tree!

It was so fun going out quadding looking for the perfect tree in the woods......after hours of searching....there it was.....this absolutely gorgeous, beautiful perfect tree.....we both said "that's defiantly the one!" so we cut it down and drug it home.....well once we got it home, our perfectly beautiful tree soon turned into the ugly'est most hideous looking tree we had ever seen!!! Well after laughing about how ugly this tree was with its huge gabs of missing branches and a completely crooked trunk, we decided to keep it anyways......after all it was our first tree together, so we had to keep it.

So there it is... After getting it all decorated up, you can't quite tell how hideous it was...but believe me, it was ugly!!

- us together for our 1st Christmas!!

For our 2nd Christmas together...I got my way and got my fake tree.....one with the lights built in...it was perfect....unfortunately i don't have any pics of it then.

So for this Christmas, we both got our ways....Ryan got his Real tree, and i set up my fake one from last year!! We are completely opposites on what we like in our tress. Ryan's likes colored lights, i like all white lights, he likes Garland, i like Ribbon, he likes multi colored bulbs, i like one - two colors, and of course he likes real, i like fake...... i guess its true....opposites do attract!!

I'm sure you can tell who's tree is who's

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Its True.....

I'm officially a BLOGGER!!!

I've been reading everybody's blogs and think it's such a cute and fun idea. I know that nobody will probably ever read my blog (except for Emily) but that is ok. I think it will be fun to write down everything that we do and then look back on it in a year or so and remember the memories of those days.....kinda like a diary i guess. Maybe i should have started out with "dear diary".......

Our lives are pretty boring and we don't have any cute kids to upload pictures of or anything overly exciting, but we do have some pretty stink'n cute puppies....and every once in a while we live a little and get out and have some fun!! So I'll be sure to update you and write all about our exciting Journey's!!!