let your heart be light

 I absolutely LOVE the holiday season. (how could you not?)

 It's been so fun getting our house all festive and ready for Christmas! I can't wait.

 I have also LOVED picking out stuff for Nate. It's definitely been a change being in charge of someone else's Christmas gifts but I have loved it.

 I think I'm more excited to have Nate open his gifts than he is. ha ha 

And I'm over here crossing my fingers he remembers what I told him I wanted. joking. kinda.

Anyway we have been busy around here with family and shopping and playing in the snow and watching Christmas movies. oh and lets not forget the night we had to take the ym and yw to temple square. 

What.an.experience.

Safe to say Nate and I don't plan on having children for a looooong time. :)

Baby sisters 12th birthday!

Our first tree

We are crazy and took a walk in a blizzard

starting to look more like home

I want one of these homely looking jackets. The WARMEST ever.

my mama and I on my FIRST Christmas! 

We had fun until Nate had to carry the deacon who threw a fit. yikes.

cruisin'!

A few weeks ago we got to go on our very first cruise! What can I say? I LOVED IT. We are totally going on another one. Nate's grandparents took their WHOLE family over thanksgiving to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. So sweet of them. We had such a blast on the ship hottubbing, stuffing our faces with the BEST food, dancing, re enacting titanic, ordering room service,but my favorite thing HANDS DOWN was the 24/7 soft serve ice cream cones!!! oh my heck. Everyone laughed at me because I always ordered a fancy dessert at dinner but could never eat it because all that I wanted was an ice cream!! they were so so good.

first day on the boat after a 15 hour bus drive. can you tell we hadn't even showered? yikes.

Captain's night

going hot tubbing at midnight!

One of my favorite things EVER! we explored the island on this bad boy.

my favorite mexican souvenier. 

MEXICO!!

here we are

Okay well I've got good news today. We FINALLY, finally, after months and months of {impatiently} waiting, got our wedding photos back!
 it'saboutdangtime. wouldn't you say?
Well I'm loving them and some mornings after Nate leaves for work I just can't put the ipad down long enough to stop looking at them.
I have to (sometimes outloud) tell myself. "go workout the pictures aren't going anywhere."
Then my morning has to officially begin.

It's crazy to think we have already been married almost THREE months. time is just a flyin'.
I remmeber how hectic it was getting ready for the wedding and being so excited for  when life would finally calm down again. but guess what?
 It hasn't even calmed down. at all. bummer. ha but I wouldn't change it for anything.

 so i wanted to share a few & when I started going through them I realized I couldn't just pick A FEW> so there's a ton. the first ones are from our bridal/formal session. and then the temple and party ones after that. Yep, it was the best day ever.