weimaraners, weimaraners, everywhere

      

 

 

what's your favorite?

Getting the ornaments out of the “christmas trunk” is one of my very favorite parts of December. Nostalgia is a huge part of my life - and it’s like Christmas ornaments just exude memories. Each and every one of these ornaments comes with a story - made by dear friends, childhood memories, reminders of a family trip, you name it. One of the hubby and I’s Christmas traditions is to swap ornaments that remind each other of us or a specific memory from that year. I feel like every year I’m drawn to get him woodland creature ornaments…. why is that?! Don’t worry Jonathan, I’m breaking the trend this year - so far I’ve almost gotten you an ornament lobster, a paper mache octopus, and a glass artichoke. It’s a good thing you love me :)

 

    

  

P.S. Jonathan’s last law exam is tomorrow - prayers that he finishes strong and that we can both finally take a few minutes to breathe! Part of me loathes school for having exams so close to Christmas, but then, maybe they just know that we need the extra cheer during exam time :)

x’s and o’s

right now

the husband studies from 8am to 8pm at the law school. we cuddle from 8 to 8

check that one off the dc list

This week we got to experience one of the many things we’ve been wanting to check off of our DC list: the National Christmas Tree Lighting! The tickets are a total lottery - but somehow, we won some! The McNamaras had us sign up, so they were our tree lighting buds for the day :) We got standing room only tickets, which put us pretty dang far away from the tree, the stage, and (intentionally of course) the first family, but regardless it was the perfect way to get us into the Christmas spirit. Guests included: Carson Daly, Ellie Goulding, One Republic, some boy band, some country singer, the Obamas, Kermit the Frog (or as Jonathan knows him, “Kermit E. Frog”), and a few others I didn’t know. Ellie Goulding and Kermit were the highlights (just ask the 3 yr old girl sitting on her dad’s shoulders squealing “Kermit!!” behind us the entire time). Kermit was definitely the true star of the evening, complete with a tag-team reading of Twas The Night Before Christmas with Mrs. Michelle O. Sadly, the original tree (planted and lit by President Coolidge in 1923) blew completely over in a storm last year and this new tree definitely has some growing to do. Still, it’s plenty cheery and hopefully our Ellipse full of people singing christmas carols encouraged it to hold strong against those DC breezes :)














if you look real close, one of those spots on stage should be Obama ;)

baby tree

We told ourselves that regardless of how crazy it gets this week (ahem… impending law school finals… cough, cough), WE’RE GETTING A CHRISTMAS TREE. So yesterday, we did! There’s just nothing like walking to the outdoor market and carrying your Christmas tree home. Mark that one on the list of things we love about Capitol Hill. We’re not going to be home a ton over the Christmas holiday and we just couldn’t quite justify getting a regular sized tree this year, but we also couldn’t justify not getting one at all :)

 

 

 

  

  

                                          Merry Christmas Y’all :)

Miss You

While in Cedartown this weekend, I took a couple Iphone photos of things in Grandmamma’s home that really resonate with me and will always remind me of her. I love everything about that old house and all who have resided in it.

        

        

        

        

        

                                                      Love and miss you

weekend post

 

Last night, we did this:

{ate homemade mexican food with friends}

{watched some kind of important baseball game}

{cuddled with the weimaraner and cheered for opposing teams, like this}

Today we:

 

{cuddled while drinking coffee}

{cuddled while watching the new Jane Eyre and Jonathan studied}

{cuddled while watching the GA/FLA game and wished we could be there}

a perfect cuddly day, all because of this craziness:

So long October…apparently you truly are, over.