popcorn buckets and fruitcake

We got home just in time to wear tacky Christmas outfits to a party, buy a $20 tree, & fall asleep by the fire.

merry christmas to you

ha.

before & after, now & later

I gave david a haircut yesterday. It makes him look ten years younger, but that might be because in the 'after' picture he is wearing a shirt he bought ten years ago.

Right now our bed looks like this:

I always make fun of David for packing in such an organized fashion, he spends a few hours and it takes me five minutes to pack. I throw a bunch of clothes that i never wear in a backpack, a toothbrush, and a book. I end up wearing the same thing for the whole trip, and i always forget my pajamas...but it works for me. This time around i am for real packing, because when i came home from school this morning and saw davids stuff organized in little squares on the bed it looked so appealing.

Later tonight...we will be in Paris, we're hoping it will be as fun as this looks.

brrrrrrr....

the crack,
dangling tess,

we went to st. george in october with steph & adam, and tess & jared. I didn't post about it because i was waiting to get pictures from steph. And now, it is december and i am posting anyways with what i have, but oh man i wish we were there still. i want heat! it is tooooo cold.

Foxes and woodland mushrooms

I made a Buche de Noel for my co-workers Maren & Dirk's wedding shower. While it was tasty & whimsically delicious, i will probably never slave away for an entire day again....no matter how many cocoa clouds i inhale in the process.

and...make sure to go here to check out photos of this cute little foxy that would show up on this couple's porch every so often for a year.

'twas the night before christmas

my mom is doing a little project for christmas where she is putting a photo slide show to a rendering of 'twas the night before christmas. she wanted david and i to pose as ma and pa. I told her it would probably be a lot better if she and my dad were ma and pa. so they came over on sunday and we took some shots for the slideshow. while they were playing asleep i kept subbing my camera in for my moms so i could sneak some too, because it was just too funny. i wish i had photo shop so that i could paint some snow in the window.