Christmas: Happened.

I hope you had a Merry Christmas! We sure did. We are still working on our Christmas traditions. This year we thought it would be fun to have our pictures taken as a family on the bridge where we had our engagement pictures taken in 2011. 

This was our engagement photo taken by my mama

These are our Christmas photos: 

{photos taken by Wade Christensen}

But it was a whopping 19 degrees Fahrenheit. Not so much fun. It hurt my teeth to smile! I think we will start doing our family picture in the Spring (like my mom suggested) and maybe we won't freeze to death.  

It was our first Christmas with Caeden. This is how he felt about it and most of his presents: 

He seemed to enjoy his little finger puppets: 

 I know I enjoyed them! 

My mother-in-law gave us a super cute gift that would be an easy "homemade" gift:

She called it our "Winter Picnic Basket". So adorable! Just get a basket and fill it with winter-y stuff! 

Also, I've been blogging about our house since we bought it in June 2011. Today, I joined that blog with this one. It's just easier to manage two blogs instead of three, although I'm not sure if all of the posts made it over. I'll have to do some checking later. I also have a furniture blog that I'm thinking about joining to this one, but I haven't decided yet. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this super long post! 

iHeart Fall.

Guess what...I got another flat tire!! Right after I got brand new ones put on. Yay! A nice man on his way home from work this morning helped me change it before my brother could even get there.

Moving on.

I love Fall.

I fully believe the seasons should be as follows:

Winter: December. Only December.
Spring: January to June
Summer: July. Just July.
Fall: August to November.

I've never done much fall decorating. In Utah I just looked up at the mountains and they were all sorts of yellow, orange, red, purple, and green looking so I never felt the need. I'm not sure how fall really looks here in Missouri. So far, it's mostly like dried corn stalks.

Anyway, I was wandering around Far West yesterday and picked up a handful of acorns. Mostly because they're cute, but then I thought I could paint them as part of a fall-type decoration. I perused and found some acorn love:

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="250" caption="You can never have too many candles."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="so cute!!"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="456" caption="Felt acorns on the chandelier"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="456" caption="Felt acorns in a bowl"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Painted Jack-o-Lantern acorns! Cute."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Painted acorns with a simple DIY. I love how shiny they are!"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="265" caption="Blue acorns! also with a DIY"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Felt acorn chimes"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Fall acorn family! I think they made them into magnets."][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="I'm pretty sure they're wood, but they are so cute!"][/caption]

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="For Christmas even!"][/caption]