Christmas 2013!

Christmas was pretty quiet at the Brooksby home this year... it was just the two of us in our little apartment in Michigan! It was definitely different and weird not spending it with family, but we enjoyed the time we had together! 

We started christmas off with a Brooksby tradition and opened our stockings on Christmas Eve!

We then got all comfy in our pj's and snuggled on the couch while we watched the movie 'Elf'. :)

After the movie, it was time to head to bed so Santa could come! While waiting to fall asleep we continued a Hahn sibling tradition and listened to the Chipmunks Christmas CD! (It's not Christmas Eve without some Chipmunk christmas!)

Merry Christmas!!

We woke up Christmas morning to a sorta-kinda white christmas. It definitely helped make Christmas morning feel more magical! 

After we opened our presents and played around with them for a bit, we decided we were hungry. So we made cinnamon french toast and buttermilk syrup... so so yummy! (Another Hahn tradition)

Look at my handsome hubby in his new clothes! 

Lookin' good! ;)

Nathan also got a computer code reader for his car and an organizer for all of his many hardware pieces. AND he got a table saw! He was very very excited about that one!

And for me... I got this amazingly awesome Silhouette Cameo and many tools to go with it!! AHHH so stoked for it! I can do so many projects with this thing! I can't wait! :D

So since we weren't with family this year, we spent most of the afternoon on google hangouts with both the Brooksby's and the Hahn's! I am so grateful for technology that allows us to see and talk to family that are so far away! It was so nice to talk to everyone and see all the nieces and nephews and how excited they were. It was so fun! 

We spent a couple hours over at our friends house, who invited us over for Christmas dinner, which was so delicious, and games. We had such a fun time with them and their kids! We played games, had karaoke, and puppet shows! It made for a very fun and eventful evening, we loved it! 

The rest of the night was spent cleaning up and then packing for our trip to Minnesota for Aaron and Chelsea's wedding! (Nathan's younger brother). We were leaving that next morning super early so we had to get everything ready that night! 

What a wonderful Christmas it was for us! We were truly blessed and loved the time we got to spend with one another!

Merry Christmas Everyone! :)

Plymouth Christmas Lights

A couple nights before Christmas, Nathan and I filled up two water bottles with some yummy hot chocolate and went out to Plymouth to walk around and see all the Christmas trees and lights they had set up all around the downtown square! The town was so beautiful, being all lit up with lights! I loved it! :)

Aww someone got proposed too! So cute! 

Even tho it was a very chilly night, we had a great time looking at all the pretty lights!! 

Yay for Christmas lights!! :)

Heaven on earth! ;)

Did you know that Michigan has the LARGEST Christmas store in the WORLD?! I knew we moved here for a reason!! ;) haha! So of course I had to go see it! It's called Bronner's and it is in a cute, little German town, Frankenmuth, about 1 1/2 hours away from where we live. So the other weekend we and some of our friends took the trip out to spend the day there! The town was so cute and so cool! It felt like you were in a German town! And Bronners...  was absolutely FABULOUS! I was in heaven!! Decorations, and trees, and stockings and ornaments everywhere!! Oh man, I loved it so much! We spent a good couple of hours in there.. and I could have spent more! It was super insanely crowded tho... so we didn't want to spend much more in there.... but don't you worry.. I plan on going back...  during the Christmas off-season and spending ALL day in that wonderful store!

Of course we had to get some souvenir from Bronner's.. So we decided to start our Nutcracker collection. Can you guess who's is whos? ;) Mine is the one with the penguin on its head and Nathan's is the hunter guy! Can you see the little duck in it's hand? haha! Too perfect for both of us! Loved it!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Yay for Christmas Time! The most wonderful time of the year! I just love the Christmas season. October rolls around and the christmas music starts... November comes, and the decorations start coming up! :) I'm crazy and obsessed with Christmas... yes I know.. But I don't care! It makes me so happy, so why deny it?! 

I found a shirt on Pinterest the other night that fits me perfectly! Haha!!

I am very lucky that my hubby puts up with my Christmas obsessiveness! He did say that I've made Christmas more fun, exciting and special for him since we've been married! That made me happy. :)

So one night in mid November, my hubby came home and I said... "Lets watch a christmas movie, and have hot chocolate.... and put up the tree!!" hehe.. and so we did, and it was a wonderful night! We watched The Santa Clause (one of my favorites) put up the christmas tree together and drank yummy hot chocolate! :)

(Of course it takes a couple tries before he will cooperate and smile for me! haha.. but I love it! It makes for some funny pictures!)

Through out the next couple of weeks I got our apartment all decorated for Christmas! 

I'm slowing building up our christmas decorations collection!

It looks so magical at night, with all the lights off except the christmas lights.. I absolutely love it!