2008, You Were Good

I didn't realize how much my life has changed this year until I started looking at all of my pictures from the past 12 months and seeing how much my hairstyle has evolved! For reals.

Okay joking aside, so much has happened this year! We went from one car to two, I went from long hair to short, dropped a few pounds, moved from apartment living to home ownership, found out I'm going to be an aunt this next year (!), added a dog to our family, finally met Chris' family, among many other things!!!! It all went by so fast too; it seems to do that when you get older

So here's some pictures to take you through my years past. (I kind of stole this idea from a bunch of people, so thank you, internet dwellers, for your brilliant ideas!)

January

February

Steph and me.

Chris' got a new car!

March

Miss Kitty got fixed :(

Made this Pepto-colored table cute again!


April

Oh look...it's those Corwins again! Trip to SF!

First time hiking up in the Kern Canyon. (Um what have I been doing the past 10 years not going there?)

May

First quad trip up at Shaver Lake.

First beach trip of the year. Pismo Beach.

June
Garbage got chopped :(

*Apparently I hated my crappy camera this month-only 6 pictures that month!!!

July

We spent the 4th of July at Shaver Lake.

And on said trip, had an incident with the dog falling in the lake and not wanting to do much but act like dead weight.

Then I turned 23.

Then we visited my little cousins in Manhattan Beach.


August
We'd be on the home search for over a couple of months, this was the one that accepted our offer.

So, we started packing!

September
At the Lake again; Chris decided it was smart to grab a snake out of a stream!

Unstuffing our LoveSac :-/ Who does that? Um, apparently people with cats who peed on it.

On our moving day, we first painted the entire living area & office.

Then we moved our furniture in :)

October
(aka crafty month)
I painted some dressers black.

I made a fall wreath.

We got a new front door! Yeeeee!

I made some pumpkin & apples votive holders.

...and made some pillows.

Oh, and I did some baking!

November
We adopted our dog, and named her Tundra.

Then we took her up to Shaver.

Then we celebrated Thanksgiving

December
We went to Michigan to meet the fam.
I hosted my first party, full of wonderful lady bloggers :)

And we had a white Christmas.

Here's to many new memories in 2009!

A White Christmas

Christmas was a good time this year. Very low key, unlike the normal holiday time when you rush to about 80 different family gatherings. We kept it real with about 3 this year.

Opening gifts at the grandparent's.

Then up to Shaver Lake cabin for a white Christmas :)

Our makeshift Christmas tree!

Of course the presents couldn't fit under the "tree".

Walking around the cabin.

Tundra LOVES the snow!

There were icicles taller than me hanging from the roof!!!

I got Chris and acoustic :)

It snowed until the day after Christmas, then the ICKY sun had to come out (hehe Sarahhh). But it was obviously, so so beautiful! Hope you all had a wonderful holiday season :)

He Might Kill Me...

But I'll take the chance.

With some of my Christmas money, we purchased a scanner/printer/copier! I've never had a scanner and I was soooo excited that, RIGHT after we got it, I demanded that Chris hurry up and hook it up to my computer.

I then proceeded to scan all of his childhood (and beyond) pictures that his Mom gave me. He then asked, "why are you scanning so many? You better not post them on the internet..." "Oh, um...I just want to have them." Long pause, "but...PLEASE can I post the cutest ones???" To that he said, "why would people want to see those?" "Because they are so CUTE!" I don't think he said yes or no, so I will take that as a yes :)




Okay I'm going go to hide NOW!


PS, I'll post some old one of yours truly very soon.

The Winner And Me Being Lame

I'm too lazy today (and in general? hah)...

so...

no exciting video...

or cool drawing from a hat...

just a few clicks on random number generator...

and the winner of the 100 posts contest...

is...

...number 4...

Colleen!!!!

Woohoo! Congrats!! I hope you like the stuff I'll be sending :) (I think I have your e-mail address, so I'll be sending you one of those!)



Thanks everyone for participating. Look forward to possibly more interesting giveaways and such from me in the future ;)

A Litte Bit of Nothing

Most of the reason for this post is to...

1) Remind you to leave a comment on my 100th blog contest post!!!!!

2) Gives me something to do while the day is winding down...

3) Show you these few little things I bought as Christmas gifts that are absolutely fab:

I bought a handful of different prints from this shop for different people in my family (of course everyone has dogs!). Most of the ones I saw looked pretty much identical to said family member's pets. I got them in the mail yesterday and they are so much more amazing than I'd anticipated! The one above looks JUST like Tundra and how she lays!

I've purchased these bath fizzies for my Mom a few times and she absolutely loves them. If my bath tub was deeper, I'd buy some for myself as well. When I got my mail, the whole mail box smelled of yummy Christmas scents :)

I also ordered a couple of these checkbook covers on another etsy shop to give to whomever. When I got the package...I drooled over them so much that I kept one for myself :) Ooops!


I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday!!!!!