A Birthday to Remember

Today is my 25th birthday....this is the first birthday that I have been a little hesitant about being a year older....25 feels like a BIG deal!! I feel like I should have accomplished more already...or somehow be mature, but I am afraid that my maturity level is as high as it is going to get :) My fiance and I came home for the weekend..(since I am not in school next week, I am hanging at home, and he made the return trip....he will pick me up when he returns for Christmas Eve) But that meant that I wouldn't not actually see him on my birthday....we celebrated with Madame Butterflies (my favorite frozen treat) and a game of Wizard (which I won) and presents on Saturday. Chad gave me a sweet new pair of nikes, my parents gave me Jessica Simpson's Fancy Perfume and my sister gave me a purse.....this was great, unfortunately this is where the birthday fun ended......

Today on my real 25th birthday I woke up with the stomach FLU!!! Uugghh...my day of fun holiday errands and visiting turned into a day of many things that are too gross to mention. I am starting to feel better...luckily I think I caught a 24 hr bug.

'Tis the Season

Now that I have finished up finals and only have 4 days of teaching left, I am finally crossing some things off my holiday to-do list!!! I mailed our Christmas cards, put the tree up...It is a 1-footer, it didn't take much. My fiance promised that I could get a "adult" Christmas tree next year when we are married and have a place together and I have the space to store/display it. I also switched all the pictures in my frames on my shelf to Christmas pictures. My dad made me the shelves for Christmas last year, and I decided to display pictures from previous Christmases. I call it my wall of Christmas past...my favorite is a picture of my dad lighting a fire with the stockings hanging down. We almost finished our Christmas shopping yesterday...and while we were out we picked up a very cute puffer jacket for the family pup!!

This sucks...

Yep...it sucks really good! I broke down and bought a new vacuum the other night. I have been dreading it...Of course I value clean carpet, but I really didn't want to spend my hard earned money on a vacuum!! I had been putting it off for far, far to long...and I couldn't take it anymore. I took my fiance along to help me pick it out...when we got back to my apartment he took it out of the box and proceeded to vacuum the whole place!! I was completely disgusted and ashamed of the amount of s*** that it sucked out of my carpet!! I will never go that long again...after seeing that gunk I don't feel bad about the money spent...even if it could have been a new pair of nikes!!

Tagged!!!

I was tagged by my most faithful commenter over at For the Love of Weddings to share 6 completely random facts about myself...only 6???....here goes:

1. I hate the cold and I run every time I am out in it...from my car to the apartment, from the grocery store to the car...the other day I ran from my car into church. in HEELS! It doesn't matter how much I am carrying or how short the distance is...I'm running!!

2. Everything that I take off ends up inside-out....it adds a lot of time pre-washing to turn them right side out, but I can't seem to train myself to take them off differently.

3. I got my first kiss as Senior in high school when I was crowned homecoming queen...can you say NERD!! Anybody else have their first kiss on video tape?

4. In college I was a student athletic trainer and I once was drilled by a player on the sideline...he couldn't get stopped...I couldn't get out of the way!!

5. I am currently addicted to decaf coffee with peppermint mocha creamer and redi whip...it is my homemade version of the starbucks peppermint mocha...a little cheaper...probably just as many empty calories.

6. I receive at least 30 hugs a day...teaching elementary PE is quite the pick me up!!

So there ya go...6 random facts about me!! This is my first tag ever...I feel like I am officially a blogger now!

The countdown is on...

I officially have 10 work days until christmas break...Yipee!!! I wish that I had a little less to-do. I have managed to complete the majority of my shopping, I just have to find something else for my dad and sister. We are completely stumped on what to get the "in-laws" we have racked our brain for days....we got nothing. I have decided to make hot cocoa mix to give as thank you gifts to my students that bring me gifts. As a PE teacher I never expected to leave for holiday break with a box of goodies....it really made me feel special last year. I like to have something to give them so that I don't spend the break writing Thank yous. I have one final and two classes left for this semester of grad school....I can not wait. Then I can totally focus on getting in the spirit...

Thanksgiving Recap

Thanksgiving Day

2 of my brothers and Chad...what can I say- we are a Mac family

My sister, sister-in-law and I

My beautiful Nieces

My fiance and I

I had a wonderful 5-day weekend- it is hard to believe that I have been back at work for 2 days. I had a great time relaxing with my parents and siblings. I have a lot to be thankful for this year...a wonderful fiance, an amazing family, health and a job a love!!

Ta-Da!!

I have finally done something wedding related...I know it is shocking, it has been months. But in all honestly I didn't do much...I comissioned it to be done, so that counts right?? I had Sarah with Belletristics design on etsy design a monogram for the wedding. I had been trying to do it myself, but I couldn't create anything that looked "professional" enough to me. So here it is...I LOVE it!!! I plan to use it on the invites and the programs, and I am debating on the possibility of using it on the cake. Any other ideas of how I can incorporate it?