Christmas.

Christmas has come and gone and the new year is just around the corner. Literally... like 2.5 hours away.

Here's the recap in pictures:

9th Annual Gingerbread Decorating Party.

 2nd Annual trip to Opryland Hotel Visit (with dinner at iHop).

Trip to Atlanta with Steven's Mom (where we picked up an art easel for Reanna)... 

followed by LOTS of present wrapping.

 Christmas Eve at Steven's parents... there were lots of presents for the kiddos.

 Opening presents with each other on Christmas day at 12:30 am.

Snow Day!!!

Jay in his funny face protector and with my glove off, it looks like I'm missing a limb... here ya go Mom, the picture you asked for :)

The Maupins :)

Steven and I just got back from 4 days at Fall Creek Falls with his ENTIRE family... all 75 or so of us.

 The bottom of the falls were COVERED in ice and snow. It was gorgeous!

Needless to say, the past couple of weeks have been super busy wrapping up last minute shopping and making sure to squeeze in visits with friends who were in town. I'm ready to ring in the new year and see what 2011 has to offer!

Christmas

I am so excited that Christmas is just around the corner! I have spent hours looking for the perfect gifts and then wrapping those babies. I have spent hours making (yes, making!) decorations for over the fireplace. I have baked until I can bake no more.. that's a lie. I can always bake more.

BUT, the one thing I really want to do is paint. I want to paint my entire house. I want to decorate and my it my home. I want to hang new curtains and fill in all the little holes in the walls. I want to caulk the space between the bookcase and the ceiling.

I guess what I really want for Christmas is time to do all of this :)

homeowners

I've been hesitant to post anything about what Steven and I have really been up to for the past couple of months. There's been some family drama in the past, but tonight I can officially say that Steven and I are homeowners!!!

I've rented the house my grandmother owns for the past 3 years. She fell and broke her hip 3 years ago and had to move into an assited living home, but to keep insurance on her house, someone had to live there. So, my two roomates and I rented the house. Then when Steven and I got married, we continued to rent.

After a couple of months of marriage we began working with a mortgage company to see what we could afford and it turns out that we were able to purchase this home.

While today was a very exciting day, we were REALLY disappointed that TTU sent Steven more revisions on his Masters Thesis. It's due tomorrow and he stayed up till 2:30am last night(this morning) to finish it because we knew we would be closing on the house today and had tickets to the Titans game tonight.

Turns out that the graduate office didn't send him all the revisions and we weren't able to go to the game tonight, but since the grad office didn't call until 5:30 and we had dinner reservations (thanks to the attorney who did the closing for us!) we couldn't find anyone to take the tickets... we are at home watching the game and Steven is killing himself to finish this thing so he can graduate this winter.

Sidenote - He originally turned the thesis in 2 weeks ago and the grad office didn't send it back to him until Tuesday... so he worked all night to finish it.... and the grad office is contridicting itself on the rules of formatting. Boo.