Christmas Parties

I love the holidays. Christmas music, parties with friends, decorations. Even though it's just the two of us, I had fun decorating our apartment all Christmas-y.

On December 1st, we attended a, ugly sweater Christmas party that Jules & Seve hosted. It was also a white elephant exchange and we scored Phase ten! Woo. Jules made some yummy snacks and we had a good time. Their newborn baby is the cutest.

A week or so later, Tomás and I went with our friends Jason & Samantha Dodge to the Caldwell Night Light Parade. It's kinda like the Starlight Parade that Portland puts on in the Summer, but on a smaller scale. We had a fun time watching the lit up floats roll by.

It's only a few days before Christmas and I'm finally done Christmas shopping! I'm excited. All my packages are sent and I bought some egg nog today for the first time this year! YUM.

BIG NEWS!

Tomás just got hired on at Skyview high school FULL TIME!!!!!! WOOOOOO!!! We are totally stoked about it. No more poor college students anymore! We are real life legit living now. Yeah.

Anyway, just wanted to spread the news. We're pretty excited about it. (Obviously) So for now, we're staying in Nampa for awhile. Yay! Don't worry Portlanders, we're planning a trip up there this summer FOR SURE. I miss it. (and my two beautiful sisters that are there too, of course!)

Thanksgiving

This year, we kind of had a double thanksgiving.

Tomás' family came into town the week before thanksgiving for one last hurrah, since Jared is leaving on his mission December 7th.

We went shopping at the Boise Towne Square, shopped for some things for Jared, and ate at Panda afterwards. We did a lot of hanging out at our apartment, and playing games.

We also went to go see Twilight the day after it came out. Let's just say, it wasn't the best movie in the world. Yikes. We still had fun being together though. :)

 (Went bella style to the showing with my converse)

We had a good ol' time.

On Sunday, we had our own little thanksgiving dinner in our tiny kitchen.

On the actual holiday, we were invited over to the Prindles! We spend thanksgiving with them, and it was delightful. Their five girls are a bunches of fun.

Jess did a great job with the dinner. We made these lovely crab deviled eggs and the yams to contribute.

Drew made these cute table settings for everyone!

All in all, we had a deluxe and awesome holiday to spend with family. It was grrrrreat!