Our Texan Christmas

What an amazing 3 days of Christmas! As we slowly recovered from our first Thanksgiving, we had our Texan Christmas. Since we are heading home on Friday, we thought we would have Christmas with our Texan family before we left. We were excited to do some winter Christmas traditions - since we have always had a summer Christmas.

Here is a breakdown of three intense days of Christmas!

We listened to Christmas carols.

We painted ornaments.

His name is Errol.

Rob's trees.

Rudolph and Errol.

We made a ginger bread house.

We made angels.

Her name is Jean.

 We watched The Grinch. And Elf.And Shrek the Halls.

We put up trees. Nine trees. One of the tallest trees I have seen in a house. 

This tree is gigantic.

We fluffed trees. Nine trees.

We trimmed the giant tree.

We made snow. Kind of. Then spent the next two days chasing the the dogs as they tried to eat it.

Snow and reindeers.

I patted a rain deer. Kind of. Well, not really. It was a dog that I was calling Rudolph.

We made hot minty cocktail - recipe coming soon!

We ate. And then we ate some more.

I laughed my ass off at Laurie's Elf on the Shelf antics. 

We exchanged presents. We got the most beautiful gift - Steph and Jeremy made it from scratch! Can't wait to get it on the wall. And I finally got to give Steph her present that I have been working on for ages.

The beautiful frame that Jeremy made, and the photo frames and decorations that Steph made!

Butterflies for Steph

I wore some excellent Christmas jerseys. (Which I had never done because well you know, we have Christmas in summer). 

Only one selfie all weekend!

All  in all, it was an amazing weekend! I feel proper Christmassy now, and can't wait to get into my Kiwi Christmas traditions with my Mama next week.

All finished.

For THURSDAY - THROWBACK Our first ever NFl game!

So, this week I aint throwing it back that far..

Last Sunday Rob and I ticked off a MASSIVE item from our US Bucket List - something Rob has wanted to do since he was like, a wee one. We went to an NFL game. And not just any game, the team I have been following since forever, was playing the Texans.

We saw the Colts play the Texans! And it was such an amazing experience! I have never been to a sports game like it. Like, it was massive. It was so much fun, it helped that our "home" team was winning for about 89% of the game. The atmosphere was crazy intense. I have never been to a game where people pretty much don't take their seats (except for during a time out).

We saw some super exciting touch down runs, lost our voices, ate some peanuts and had a beer or two.

Oh, and we also saw people tail gating. It was like nothing I have ever seen. It was like a whole other world.

Getting our red on.

Seeing Andrew Luck play was pretty rad.

JJ Watts was a bad ass.

Okay, so this is a VERY weird thing. It is normal to just break up your peanut shells and leave them on the floor.

Hipster Zebra.

Picture this... At 27 I just had my VERY FIRST Halloween ever.


Can't picture it? It looks something like this...

You know there had to be at least one selfie.

Yes. For Halloween I dressed up as a zebra. It was Rob that added the "hipster" term when I wore my new glasses haha. What a smart arse. I really wanted to be a dolphin for our first trick or treating, but the zebra onesie turned out to be a brilliant idea. Everyone else was freezing at the end of the night. Hurrah, zebra win.

Honestly, I don't know why I tried to eat Nate. The Zebra within me took over.

We drove through Houston traffic (Houston traffic is poo) up to the suburbs to trick or treat with our friends and their kids. It was definitely worth the drive, as their whole neighborhood was out and about. There were oh so many wee cute bebes about, half of which were scared senseless by Jeremys costume. Which was, in fact, one of the most awesome things ever, but the darker it got the scarier it got.. In case you are wondering why I am missing two people in this shot.. Rob didn't want to dress up so he was taking the photos (thanks babe) and I didn't manage to get a photo of Steph.. Which is a shame because she looked pretty rad too.

Exhibit A.

All in all it was a super fun night, and I must say, onesies are very comfortable. Oh to be a bebe again.

New Blog Buttons!

Oh the excitement of new social media buttons! It must be said, I am technology challenged. And although it took me an hour, I finally worked out how to change them.. And they are so cute, and so much better looking!

I bought mine from here... super easy and quick to download!

And I learned how to make a button for my blog! Thanks Laurie! 

(Here is the website I use to make  mine.. super easy!)

Happy Wednesday

I put this up on my office door last week.

I have had mixed reactions, but those who get it, crack up laughing. And that's enough for me.

Better living everyone.

So the picture isn't very good, I couldn't completely fix the glare. But you get the point.