Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, everyone! The past few days have been full of family celebration. Last weekend, Dan and I headed up to Lilburn to celebrate Christmas with the Burnett crew. We had a great time and ate, and ate, and ate. Santa brought some goodies too.

Christmas Eve morning Dan and I exchanged gifts. I just couldn't wait any longer. I got some of my favorite things: scarves and cooking products! (For those of you that may not know, anything cooking related is perfect :) ).

This morning, we headed to my parent's house to see what Santa had up his sleeve. (Bummed I don't have any pics from this morning)! Dan and I feel so incredibly blessed and are so thankful for everyone that helped make Christmas so special. Now, we're just waiting on the arrival of our nephew! He's due any day and we can't wait to meet him!

But what I love most about this season (and what is so humbling) is the little boy born in a stable.

"I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord." Luke 2:10-11

Merry Christmas, everyone!

two years

Two years ago, I was blessed to marry this man! God is so good.

A look back on the best day ever! :)

Happy Anniversary, Dan!

blue ridge

My husband and I just returned from a relaxing weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains. We got to head out early Thursday afternoon. We made a pit stop along the way and ate at Taco Mac for dinner. (Since Augusta does not have one of those, it was nice do indulge in some delish wings). Then we were Blue Ridge bound again and it was such a nice, relaxing trip! Shout out to Michael and Gena for allowing us to use their mountain home!

We ate tons of food. Including this amazing strawberry cream fried pie I devoured from Mercier Orchards.

 

I look forward to another trip, and more fried pies. Or five... :)

december

I can't believe it's December already! This year has flown by. Lot's of things to look forward to this month. Let's go.

-The birth of my nephew! I can officially say he's due this month. I can't wait to meet the little guy!

-The office I work at closes the last week and a half of December. It's awesome.
  
-Burnett/Scott family Christmas! The Burnett clan gets together the weekend before Christmas and it's always a fun time with lots of laughs and good food. Then it's followed by Christmas on my family's side and there's more food involved :)

-ABC Family and Hallmark Christmas movies. Gotta love 'em!

-The whole Christmas season. I love Christmas and getting together for celebrations, but I seriously just love the true reason we celebrate it! I mean, come on-the Savior was born. Pretty awesome.
 
-There's another reason I love December. It's my anniversary month! This month Dan and I celebrate our 2nd anniversary. SO blessed!

Happy December!

decking the halls

I'm a big believer that you can't start anything Christmas related until after you've stuffed yourself with that Thanksgiving turkey. So the other night-after I stuffed myself (again) with some leftovers-Dan and I (meaning Dan) set up the Christmas tree!

We decided to go with a fake Christmas tree this year. Now, I do love the smell of a real Christmas tree and going to pick it out, BUT, after remembering what an absolute pain it was so set up a real one last year, we went to Target and picked one out. And a candle.

I decided to go with some simple, yet festive decorations for this year. Much less messy than garland :)

Love these silver tree trunks from Target.

A little spray paint turns things into a festive piece!

One of my favorite things this year is this glittery reindeer! The tutorial can be found here. My very talented mother actually free handed the reindeer. I'd say it turned out pretty great!

Fa la la la la!

gobble, gobble

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Praise Him from whom all blessings flow. God is so good.

baby shower

Ok. I've dropped the ball on blogging. Oops. I'll try and get better about that...

...on another note-this post is about the celebrating we did last weekend for Baby Scott! Some of Gena's friends and myself threw her a baby shower and it was a success! Here are some highlights of the evening.

The delicious spread!

 

 

Soon to be aunt & uncle!

Mommy to be.

Fun gifts!

I'm so excited to meet my nephew! Next month can't come fast enough!