It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!

Well, minus the look part. North Carolina Christmas time is nothing like the white, cold and snowy winter I know from Utah. It has been a very nice change ;)I hear about the crazy winds and freezing temperatures back home, and realize how lucky I am to be blogging outside while its 65 degrees and sunny. Now, it’s not a California Christmas, it still gets in the 20’s at night, but warms right back up during the day. Can’t complain. Despite the warmer temperatures, I am still getting into the Christmas spirit. We have had a lot of fun Christmasy activities going on at the Waller house. We decorated the tree while blaring Christmas music and Hannah rocked the footsie pajamas :)



Each kidlet got their own little Christmas tree to go in there room. They all did a great job decorating them!! As you can tell, Christian was very proud of his!!


I even got my own little tree. I named it Pinky. It’s not hard to guess why...


Liz hung the cute monogrammed stockings with care {I am happy to announce that there is a letter "A" for Autum hung with the rest of family, I feel so special!) and decorated the house ADOREable!! Later, we built a fire in the outdoor fire place, played Christmas music, drank hot coca and ate pizza and donuts. Yum Yum Yum!!



Then on Tuesday night we went to Mcadenville which is THE Christmas Town, USA. Seriously Google it.



It’s an entire community that goes all out with Christmas lights that you can drive through. It was AWESOME!!! We opened up the back of the Escalade for the older kids, Londyn stood out the sun roof & Christian sat on my lap.




It set the mood for Christmas, which is coming up faster than I can say Fa la la!! Can’t wait to see the fam!! & I must admit, I really hope we get a good dose of the fluffy white stuff for Christmas. Then I can leave it behind after Christmas :D

Happy Birthday Jayson!!

December 5th was Jayson’s Birthday so I have to give a late birthday shoutout to the hardest worker I know! I hope you had a great birthday! Enjoy your new year being one year old and wiser to! Happy Birthday to you!!



All his employee’s took his Birthday as a chance to get revenge on him by plastering him with Shaving cream! Well done ISI!!

A Tennessee Thanksgiving

I got to spend Thanksgiving in the beautiful Smoky Mountains!! How lucky am I? Our original plan had been to go to Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, & believe me when I say I was so so so excited to go. BUT when they started booking the trip, we realized that you have to have passports to stay there. But that didn’t stop us, even with the limited time left; we went to work getting our passports. I could seriously write an entire post on our adventures in trying to get passports. But I’ll just skip to the ending… we didn’t get them. Well mostly, just not mine. Stupid “Not sealed” Birth certificate. Anywho, we settled with renting a cabin in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. It definitely wasn’t the Bahamas, but it was actually pretty fun. The cabin was HUGE!! We went with the Klink’s, who are the Waller’s good friends, and their kids. We each could have had our own rooms with space to spare, but the younger kids all shared. Me and Hannah shared a level, each with our own big rooms, with porches on the back, Jacuzzi tubs and TV’s. The cabin had all sorts of fun stuff like an arcade style racing video game, a movie theater, a pool table and a hot tub, so needless to say we were pretty set just hanging out there. But we also spent a lot of time exploring the town, which is pretty much a giant amusement park. It reminded me of a beach town. We did go cart racing, mining our own gemstones, the sky lift {What an awesome view!}, shopping & other amusements throughout the town. & of course ate a lot of good food :) We had a great time!!



The view from the top of the Skylift

*~TwEnTy!!~*

Well, I am no longer a teenager! :/ Pretty sad right?? I turned the big 2-0 on November 22nd. It was also my first birthday away from home. Naturally, I was a little sad that my family couldn’t be there to share my big day with. But between their phone calls, gifts & the Waller’s going ALL out I hardly had time to be homesick. When I say ALL out, I mean it! When I came out of my room, there was a bag outside my door. I opened it, and what was in it you ask? Well socks and sandals of course. What? What? What? Ha ha its kind of an ongoing joke from the Disney Channel show, “So Random”. Pretty Random right? We say it all the time, don’t know why :] So Hannah made a prank out of it and put her stinky sandals and some socks in the bag :] How thoughtful of her!! To make up for it, there was also a ton of candy in the bag! But none of this prepared me for what was downstairs. Streamers, balloons, more streamers, more balloons. A balloon the size of a Christmas tree. A rose cake. Banners. Writing on the door. Writing on the washers & dryers. And top it off with more decorations & you have my birthday at the Waller house.





cRaZy right?? They are too nice. On top of all of it they got me a Victoria’s Secret Pink sweat suit. I love these things!! I have wanted one forever!! They ALSO got me some more cute PINK pink pants :) and a cute VS pink top. They are the best!!! Then I took the girls to school, in the Hummer, with Happy Birthday saying like “Honk it’s my birthday” & “Big 20” written all over it. Embarrassing!! Later in the day we went to the Mooresville Christmas parade that Hannah got to walk in.




Finally, just as I was about to be done for the day, I was splattered in the face with a pie. Here is their warning: I plan revenge.



When I got up to my room & cleaned the rotten milk smell from the pie off me, I opened up the gifts I had received in the mail from the fam back in Utah. I got some good stuff like Glee season 2, a laptop desk, a donut maker, some really cute slippers & some $cash$. I had a terrific twentieth birthday!! Thanks to everyone who made it that way :)

Fall

I had been looking forward to the North Carolina fall all year!! & it finally came… just way to fast!! But it was beautiful while it lasted. I really wanted to take some good pictures, especially of the tree’s on the lake shore that were just breathtaking, but time flew past me and before I knew it, all the leaves had fallen off! :/ Well here are some I just took in the yard. Definitely doesn’t do it justice.

Hello Krista!!!! :D

This post is dedicated to my super fantastic sister{in-law} Krista Lou...

I have been working my toosh off to catch up on my blog. I have all but one post ready && I want to post them all at once. I just can't bring myself to do the last one. I'm blogged out for the day. But I have been thinking about you the whole time I was working, wanting to get it done because I know you usually check it on Monday's & I hate to disappoint you with no post... AGAIN! SOOOO here is a "placeholder" post just for you; An invitation to come back on Tuesday & see my real posts!! I love you girl!! 9 days left & I can hug your guts out!!