My Gift Swap Present! What's in Yours?

I got up this morning when Brandon went to work, and right before I went to lay back down for a little bit, the mail came!! And my package from my swap partner Diana! Diana is the blogger for Little Moments - check out her blog when you get a chance!

But for now....here's my package!

My package!

She boxed it all cute! And it had a sweet little card! Charlie, of course, tried eating the tissue paper as soon as I opened it!

And little did Diana know, she got Charlie a present too! He absolutely loves cardboard boxes.

All my presents! I got....

A fleece throw - SO cute with Santas and presents on it! And comfy too!

A kitty calendar - I love kitties!

A peppermint lollipop that's going to take me like 3 months to eat!

Snowman, mitten and snowflake cookie cutters!

And a stand mixer ornament! I thought it was SO cute!!

Close up pic of the ornament! How neat!

I loved all of my stuff, and thank you again, Diana, for being my swap partner!! Hopefully by now everyone has mailed theirs out (deadline is tomorrow!). So once you get it, write a post about it and link up so we can see what everyone else got! :) I love Christmas!

I've Been Tagged!

I've been tagged by Diana!

1. Four shows that you watch:

- One Tree Hill

- Gossip Girl

- Life Unexpected

- House

2. Four things you are passionate about:

- Nursing

- Baking

- the Military

- Giving animals homes!

3. Four phrases you say a lot:

- "I know right?"

- "You know what I mean?"

- "And I was like..."

- "Jeebus!" (alternative to "Jesus!") lol

4. Four things you've learned from the past:

- Don't take your time with your loved ones for granted

- Drop a class if there's even a chance of failing

- Some people just don't want your advice

- Keep calm during arguments

5. Four places you'd like to go:

- Paris, France

- Hawaii

- Italy

- Disney World or Land

6. Four things you did yesterday:

See this post

7. Four things you're looking forward to:

- Christmas

- Kelly having her baby!

- Getting into nursing school and starting it

- Graduating college

8. Four things you love about winter:

- The cuddliness of it

- Christmas!

- Snow! When it does happen

- Yummy foods!

9. Four bloggers who should share their list of fours:

Weekend Recap!

- Thursday -

This week is going to start on Thursday, because it's when the fun began! Thursday was payday, so we bought our Christmas tree decorations! This is our first married Christmas, so here is our first tree as husband and wife! :)

This is my favorite ornament!

- Friday -

Brandon had drill this weekend, so me and Charlie drove up to my dad's for the weekend! I went to visit my aunt Friday night. They were having a little Christmas festival in their town, so we went to that! It was pretty fun! They were passing out free hot chocolate and marshmallows to roast on a big fire. They had a Santa there for the kids to take pictures with and they had a cake walk! I walked one time and won a cake! It was a red velvet cake with German chocolate icing. Pretty good, although I'm not a biggg fan of coconut. It served as a nice birthday cake for my dad though!

- Saturday -

My dad's birthday! Happy Birthday to him! I got him a Scentsy - equivalent warmer and a few scents and he loved it! I was glad! We sat around for a bit and then I went to Tires Plus to see what was up with my putt putt car. It's been sputtering a lot lately. After that, I went to Mexicali, AKA the best Mexican restaurant ever, with Manda and then we stopped by Walmart where I ran into Alysse, a friend from UGA! We stopped for Starbucks on the way home and then Ryan, Jonathan and Ryan's mom stopped by. We've been friends since 7th grade and he's moving back to Canada in a few days so I was really glad I got to see him before he left!!

- Sunday -

I had coffee (again) with Lauren! It was nice to catch up since I hadn't seen her since the wedding! She brought my Christmas present, and I love it! I'm a slacker and haven't gotten done with my shopping yet, so that just means we'll have to hang out again before Christmas! I got a book of 1001 sweet recipes! This should keep me occupied for the rest of my life! lol I love it! And a sweet frame that will be perfect for one of our wedding pics of me and Lauren!

And it was snowing like all day! None of it stuck hardly, but at least I got to see snow! It's rare in Georgia!

That was my weekend! I hope everyone else has had a great one too! :)

Button Re-adjustments

My buttons weren't posting IN posts, just on the sidebars...so I've been messing with it. I'll probably delete this after I'm done, but for the time being, just ignore me! lol



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Random Thursday Thoughts

No, it's not another Blogger meme, I just haven't wrote in a while! It does have a ring to it though! Usually I'd stick some of my randomness into Thursday Five but it's been missing for a while! :/ Anyway...

[Bye bye, classes!]

I finished up classes this week so I am done with studying until January! I can't tell you how good that feels! Checked my grades and I have two A's so far! Cross your fingers for 1 or 2 more!

[Ho, Ho, Ho!]

My Christmas mood is HERE! It's been here, but I've subdued it to focus on studying. We put our tree up a few days ago. This is what it looks like now though:

But hopefully it will be all prettied up tonight! I'm super excited to decorate our first tree together! And I'm ordering my 50 FREE Christmas cards from Shutterfly that I blogged about HERE!

[Weird...]

A few days ago, I had the strangest thing happen, that really freaked me out! I was sitting on the couch studying, when I thought I saw something fall from the ceiling. I looked to see what it was, and I saw something go across the room. I thought, "Oh, must be a bug." Well I sat up, all of like a half a foot from where I was leaning to look, and BAM! I start seeing lights coming from every way, but all going towards the center. There were probably like 15 of them that looked like the things that fly off sparklers, kind of an inverted firework. It lasted ~30 seconds or so, and that was it! Hasn't happened since!

[WeHeartIt]

Such a cute website! I'm newly addicted and you can follow me here! It's an image site and you "heart" your favorites and it creates a page of them!

[Happy Birthday, Charlie!]

So his birthday is sometime in November, maybe around the 16th, but we're not too sure since we adopted him from a shelter. But he's about a year old now! I was uploading pics the other day and found one to show a good comparison! My baby's growing up! *sniff sniff*

I think that's all the randomness I have for now! Until next time!

Holiday Gift Swap Partners!

Happy Saturday! I know I'm glad it's the weekend, and it's get your swap partner day! So here we go!

I went old school and drew names out of a hat! Everyone's names that signed up...

All in the hat, er, cover!

*Drumrollllllllllll*

Our first pair is Kara @ Ramblings of a Marine Wife (karalynn81@yahoo.com) and Heather

(lildevil8807@yahoo.com)!

Next up...

Myself and Diana @ Little Moments!

And finally....

Kim @ Long Distant Love (deesekimberly@gmail.com) and Megan

(megan.bradley@email.wesley.edu)!

Contact your partners and talk things out! Don't forget - $20 gift limit not including shipping and it should be shipped no later than December 15th! :)

Wordless Wednesday: Why I love December!

HOLIDAY GIFT SWAP 2010 - Enter by Friday!