a married new years eve.

it is new years eve. we have no exciting plans. i really haven't cared to think about it (maybe it is being sick that makes me not care.)

i don't think anything big will go down tonight. BUT, i am hoping we will get together with friends.. play some games.. talk about life. talk about new years resolutions we will not be able to keep, and maybe some that we will.

the only thing i know is that (i won't have to waste anytime trying to find someone to kiss) i will be kissing justylips at midnight!

this old house.

somewhere in the middle of nowhere we found an old house.

i couldn't resist snapping a few photos. it is crazy to think that used to be someone's home. i loved the rust, the rotting wood and ripped up mattress. they had quite the view... with nothing around to block their desert-scape.

merry christmas.

i will spend the morning talking to this guy. can't wait! i love him.

angel food fiasco.

i guess a box of angel food cake is harder to make than i thought.

i wish.

it would be nice to wake up in this room, in this bed....

can a room in a house be on a christmas list? if so, it is on mine.

a sign.

justin and i kind of want a dog (for like thirty seconds) then i think about potty training.. and really just the pain the whole deal would be. but then i think of cute puppies and want one again. so justin decided that if we should get a dog one will find us (yea.. whatever.) apparently his dog found them who found their cat. so he thinks this kind of stuff happens. (i would not be okay with a stray.. because the whole point of getting a dog is to have a cute puppy!) ANYWAY, i think i have gotten my sign. i have almost run over two dogs in a week. it seems like the only puppies finding me might find themselves stuck to my tires.

i wish christmas this year was a big deal to me (i am sure i will be sad when it is over.) but seriously EVERYONE has asked what my big plans are for our FIRST christmas together... embarrassed, i have to say 'nothing.' i finally had my mom find a two-foot tree that we finally bought lights for tonight. as in a week before christmas. i once had visions of a decorated house, but the time and effort involved haulted the fruition!
i have a holiday candle. it has yet to be lit. the lights on my dinky tree have not been turned on. i have baby-size ornaments sitting next to the tree. gifts unwrapped in the basement. it may as well be July in my house.
i promise next year i will be better. i am going to buy decorations once they go on sale. maybe if i have all the stuff i will actually put it up!
by next year i hope i will have called the chimney cleaner so we can have a fire. stockings up, a real christmas tree (okay maybe not real because i don't want to clean up the mess) but a DECENT size tree. ornaments, lights, holiday cookies and hot cocoa.
on the decorating front i have ruined our first christmas... at least there is always next year!

and one year is plenty of time to up ideas.

254 pounds later.

the toffee orders have been made, boxed and delivered. i know have my life back!

i want to see it again.

kate turns two.