december recap

december was a fun and busy month.

decorations

we decorated for christmas.

new hair
i cut my hair. i was craving short hair and it think it turned out really cute - i love it! (thanks again to carlee). the only problem is that winter is a bad time of year to cut all your hair off, now my neck is always cold - the sacrifices we make for beauty!





finals
joe and i finished our fall school semesters around the middle of december. finals week consisted of many nights sitting next to each other on the couch studying - i started calling them dates in my mind which made it more fun :).


festival of lights
we went to see the celebration of lights at hartwood acres. we thought it was going to be a walk around light display like temple square but you could only drive through it. so there was a big line of traffic that slowly moved through the park which was disappointing but it still got us in the christmas mood.

joe loving getting his picture taken

christmas
this was the first christmas joe and i have spent alone, and even though we missed seeing our families we had a wonderful time. after being so busy with school it was nice to get some good quality alone time in.

christmas eve...i wuv joe so much!

christmas day...so gorgeous first thing in the morning!

do you think he liked his present? (thanks to mike o. for his inspiring advice that "being responsible is for the birds!" or was it "being responsible is overrated", either way it was what made me decide to get this for joe and i think he really appreciated it, so thanks again mike :).

doing a captain morgan stance to show off my new snow boots...just new boot fun'n!

our christmas turkey...you know it's a true celebration when there is meat:).