This week I have been, what some may say, a busy bee! Updating my family and friends is why I created this blog mostly, so pointless rant is going to be happening in just a few seconds then we'll get to some good stuff!
The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I asked my loving husband for probably the 600th time what we were doing on Thanksgiving since our plans changed before and there was NO WAY I was going to let us go without our house or someone's house smelling like turkey on Thanksgiving. Seriously loved waking up every year to my house smelling so wonderful every Thanksgiving morning when I was little -- and until last year :P. So he finally told me we had no plans, and he was so gracious to go to the store so I could rest because I wasn't feeling well. I was pretty stressed, since I had never made a Thanksgiving meal before...ever. Just made pie for the family and that's it! I had a lot to live up to. I found a turkey recipe that seemed good and a couple of other awesome recipes my in-laws made in a cookbook they gave me! Found out on Thursday -- yes Thanksgiving day -- I got the wrong kind of turkey for the recipe I found, SO I was out of luck. I spent about an hour looking up different things on what to do, but I finally just ended up cooking it in my amazing, wonderful, magical crockpot since we had a small turkey. It turned out so so much better than I expected! I completely guessed on the ingredients to add, so I just added some white wine, butter, turkey gravy powder, olive oil, a dash of nutmeg, lemon and pepper seasoning, salt and LOTS of rosemary. Then I added some carrots and celery! Don't ask me how much of everything, because I have no idea haha.
I'm pretty proud of it!
After that I made crunchy top potatoes and sweet potato casserole with rolls, pumpkin pie and salsa to munch on during the day! (Salsa is a big thanks to Pioneer Woman's blog!)
Our little Thanksgiving set up :)
Housewife level 65 achieved!
The weekend after Thanksgiving was full of shopping and just relaxing. I absolutely love four day weekends with the husband! We got our Christmas tree...and by "got," I mean we actually physically cut it down. Turns out we're allergic to it when we touch it :(
What in the world am I doing? Also my husband is a tree snob.
We got some more Christmas decorations because we're both a little obsessed with decorating our house! So fun!
At least our three legged kitty loved the tree. Its his new favorite place to lay now :)
Old and new decorations make it look Christmasy!! Yes our fur-babies have their own stockings. What of it?
This past Monday turns out was my birthday AND N's promotion to Captain! I am so utterly proud of him.
I had the privilege to pin my wonderful husband
As for my birthday N had been asking me what I wanted to do and I decided to see the new Disney movie, "Frozen"! Yes, I was turning 26 and I was seeing a kids movie. Don't judge! Let me tell you that it was adorable and it had N and I cracking up a lot! I highly suggest it, also we went early enough that we had the ENTIRE theater to ourselves!! 3-D wasn't that bad either! Here are our sexy selves in our glasses! Minus I just noticed N has his sunglasses on instead...wonderful.
Tonight there was a "CG Reception." I'm learning all the army stuff so bear with me while I learn this whole new world. Anyways, at the reception I met N's Commanding General and a couple of other big names and I was NERVOUS! I even went shopping to find a new outfit, which by the way is SO CUTE! If I could wear it all the time and not look weird, I would. I even curled my hair for the event, which is not something I usually do because 1)It usually doesn't look good and 2) I can't fix hair for the life of me. It actually looked decent for the first hour! Then we walked into the building...and decided to do what it wanted. Awesome. Then, the whole time before and during meeting the people, I was shaking and was hoping I wasn't going to get sick on them. The CG was so amazingly nice so I really had nothing to worry about...of course. I tend to make up the worst scenarios in my head for no apparent reason and then stress about it for who knows how long.
HOW CUTE IS THAT OUTFIT?! I love love love Target. Also I don't look 16 so that's a huge bonus
Sorry about the picture quality by the way! My nice camera broke awhile back, then N's camera broke on our honeymoon because I had an awesome idea to ask someone to take a picture of us while we were in the ocean and the screen must have gotten wet. We only have our phone cameras right now, I eventually plan to get a super duper nice camera. I have been wanting to learn photography the past few years, which most people don't know! Lets cross our fingers to see if that pans out, plus it gives me an excuse for a new camera!
In a few weeks we will be heading to the great state of Texas again for Christmas! 16ish hours in a car with a puppy who doesn't listen yet, and a cat who is so scared of the car he foams at the mouth as well as other unmentionables. That'll be fun. I CAN'T WAIT to be around people I know again though! I'm lame and have made no friends yet besides the couple N knows who are both in the army as well :). Their baby is adorable by the way. Had to put that out there...cuteness overload when I see her. Hopefully soon I will be able to meet some people when I venture out to more social events! Until then, I'm doing crafts, cleaning, napping with Easel, cleaning, trying to train Barley, looking up and trying new recipes and more cleaning.
I'll try and update again before we leave for Texas, but don't hold y'alls breath :P
Until next time!
<3 M
