Saturday Morning

I have had a rough week. You know those weeks ladies? The ones where you feel like jumping off a bridge to feel better? Yeah add to that a cold and I've been pretty miserable all week long. Good thing about this past week though was that it was Poly's finals week which means that Dj is done with school until January! Yay! We went out to sushi last night to celebrate, unfortunately I could barely eat my yummy sushi because my throat hurt so bad, it was still fun to be downtown with my best friend after a really hard week of work. I woke up this morning feel a little better though, my throat doesn't hurt as much and my nose isn't out of control. So I decided to practice our Christmas gifts to Dj's family.

So my bow tying skills obviously need strengthening but to be fair that ribbon, though pretty, is not easy to tie into a bow. It was so fun and I know the tag is all boring but I didn't feel like dolling it up, this is just a trial one to see how it worked and what we might do. A lot of people who reviewed the recipe I was using said the ingredients didn't all fit but I beg to differ! I think it looks pretty cool actually and I'm glad that we decided to make these, though 'takey' as gifts in some online opinions that I've seen I think these things are awesome, all you have to do is add 3 ingredients and you have amazing cookie dough! A little more work and you have delicious baked cookies. Hopefully the in-laws like them, but if not, heck, they don't have to keep them, I'll take them home and bake them myself. (Oh yeah and Kayde, there will be one here in SLO with your name on it when you come down for Christmas, sorry to spoil it)

And here's our lovely little tree. It's basically the same as last year except we're letting it breathe a little more than we did last Christmas, next year I'm getting new ornaments I think. And taking more time to put the lights on, I rushed it a lot so it looks all sloppy. Who knows maybe we'll have a bigger tree next year.
I'm trying to be very optimistic for our Christmas in Utah and despite all the stuff we have to do to get ready for our trip and all the stuff I'm nervous about. Dj leaves in exactly a week ahh!, I just remembered this morning that I have to 'future pack' it's weird I'm basically packing a week ahead of time and I'm usually one of those last minute packers so it's going to feel strange.
The two things I'm looking forward to most is going to the temple and going back to the place where my husband proposed to me. I'm going to make the best of it, even the negative parts, and hopefully we survive this week!