So.... the Holidays were so nice for us! For Thanksgiving we went to Midland to do house decorating again this year. We go to these huge houses and decorate their homes for Christmas. It pays really well and it helps us out with buying Christmas gifts. It was great spending time with my mom's side of the family! We took our dog Tozer with us and he had fun playing with all the other dogs!
My sister Stephanie also took some pictures of Shawn and I and Tozer for our Christmas cards this year that turned out pretty cute. (see below)
This was our first Christmas together in our new house so we had a lot of fun decorating and putting up lights in the front yard.
We went to my parents house for Christmas and had a lot of fun spending time together. Christmas Eve we went to the Tharpe's house for their annual Christmas eve party that we've been going to for as long as I can remember. It was a lot of fun. Christmas morning we woke up and exchanged gifts. I hand-sewed my sister's dog Lily and my old dog Quinn a new bed for Christmas and also a new bed for our dog Tozer. I kept complaining about how hard it was to do by hand blah blah blah and for a nice surprise my wonderful husband Shawn bought me my first sewing machine for Christmas! I was so excited. I already have a few projects lined up but I'm going to have to take it slow because I've never actually learned how to sew correctly... I've just kind of figured it out on my own. We had a wonderful Christmas dinner and I helped my mom make some really neat dishes that she got off the TV. My personal favorite had to be the homemade pumpkin cheesecake with gingersnap crust and cinnamon whip cream...YUUUUM. Mike and May Tharpe came over for our Christmas dinner and we had a lot of fun talking and making elf-yourself videos. That night we also went to look at Christmas lights at a house that had been featured on TLC. We also did fondue one night and it was the first time I had ever tried it. Very good! My dad surprised my mom with all new dishes for Christmas from pier one so everything was very pretty.
We left my parents house on Sunday morning and had Shawn's brother's family over for a gift exchange on Sunday night. Shawn's mom had also flown in a few days before. It was a very fun night and nice to be able to have everyone over to our house.
Overall our Holiday was very nice and blessed. I can't wait to see what this year has in store for our little family and hope you all are doing well.
Love, Emily (TONS of pictures below)
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