December in Review

December! if it weren't for the cold temperatures and short days, December might be my favorite month.

Highlights included -

- having a pie night with some friends. we were stuck with three pies when second thanksgiving got re-scheduled and they were nice enough to help us get rid of some of it.

- decorating our apartment for christmas time.

- discovering how much stuff is just crammed into midvale. we just realized last night that there's a walmart and a whole mess of other things just a couple blocks away from target. my brain cannot comprehend how many restaurants and stores are crammed into that amount of space.

- watching almost all the harry potter movies. (we still have both parts of 7 to watch). i've never seen the movies before and i'm torn about how much i like them. i did ugly cry when dumbledore died though. ugh. my heart.

- after over a year of owning our duvet, realizing there are freaking ties in the corners to keep it all situated! the injustice of this is overwhelming.

- the weekend we inexplicably stayed up till 3 am every night.

- the day i didn't notice i had a fairly visible hickey showing till i was leaving work. yeeeah. i've never been accused of being too classy.

- my work christmas party. the party was fun, and we got to stay in the downtown marriott. the best part was probably sitting in the hot tub and watching the snow fall outside. the second best part was brian having to sew me into my dress because the zipper broke.

- a delicious birthday dinner for jamilyn at the dodo.

- killing it with christmas shopping this year. one giant amazon order and a mall trip pretty much did it for us. christmas shopping kind of stresses me out, so this was greatly appreciated.

 - having solstice christmas in malad. we got to spend a lot of time with my family, have daily snack breaks, and open a ridiculous amount of presents.

- being serenaded to sleep by brian singing "baby got back."

- continuing our tradition of christmas tacos, and a hot chocolate drive to see lights.

- we got to babysit cute baby clementine! it was so much fun, and i got to try out phrases like "brian, go check on the baby." also, our cats got super jealous.

 - having our first christmas eve and morning just the two of us. we slept in, gave the cats their presents, opened gifts, and made a delicious breakfast. it was pretty perfect.

the best thing that happened this month was having four christmases.

the worst thing that happened this month was when we were trying to buy our last presents at target and realized we were starving. things got real emotional in the rug aisle.