Our little Christmas

We decided to exchange our gifts before we left to go visit family. I definitely enjoy having our own little Christmas each year. 

Otter just could not stand knowing something was in her stocking. She had 4 toys in there and we had already given her one a few days before and she did not forget that there was a toy in there! She would walk around and whine and look at it until we gave her one. It was pretty cute. 

She loved her toy that Sam & Rob got her! 

Every year, Fletcher and I fill up each others stockings. It's probably my favorite tradition we have. This year we didn't have as much in them because we kind of couldn't wait and had given each other some of our presents early that probably would have been put in our stockings but we got impatient! Oops...

Fletcher was pretty happy with his sweets! 

I told Fletcher a super long time ago that my favorite thing to get is cards. I just love the thought and effort it takes to pic a cute card and then actually write something thoughtful and heartfelt inside it. Now, every holiday I get a card. It's my favorite thing ever. He's seriously the sweetest ever. He also is an amazing gifter.

I would have had 2 more little Kinder bars but someone (Otter) decided that she needed all the stockings and she had knocked mine down earlier that day and somehow taken all the stuff out of the stocking and got the box of Kinder bars from the very bottom of my stocking and chewed through the box and ate two of them! Luckily, she was fine. They didn't have very much chocolate to them so it wasn't bad. She's a brat.

christmas wrapping

I am a big packaging nerd. I always have to make sure that the gifts I wrap have bows and sparkles! Sometimes it makes them almost impossible to open without scissors but hey, they are so pretty! Here are some lovely last minute wrapping ideas that I've found recently.

I love this super cute bunting! 

found on The Sweetest Occasion.

How cute is this snowflake garland? I just love it and you can use it for more than just gift wrapping.

found on Oh Happy Day.

All of these are from Miss Indie's fall and winter inspiration board on Pinterest.

These last 3 are from Martha Stewart. She always has some of the best ideas.

Advent: Day 17

Day 17: Bake cookies.

We made some super yummy peanut butter cup cookies with the last of our pb cups from Trader Joe's. 

We also decided to go ahead and exchange our gifts from each other since this week is going to be extremely busy and we will be out of town for Christmas. (and partially because we just can't wait when it comes to giving each other gifts)

Our main thing was filling up each other's stockings. It was a success. 

Fletcher surprised me with this super cute mug that I have been wanting. He even remembered which color I wanted! He's getting good at keeping notes about stuff like that. 

Here is the rest of the loot I got from Fletcher. He is the best gift giver. He knows me better than anyone and always gets me the perfect gifts. 

Advent: Day 11

Day 11: Wrap Christmas presents.

christmas presents

Friday my sister, Fletcher and I set out to get some Christmas shopping done. Little did we know that we would be out shopping for 12 hours straight! The upside is we all got 99% of our shopping done. I have 1 present left to get, Mendy has 1 or 2 left and Fletcher is done (of course, because I did most of it he was just along to drive us around.) It was a lot of fun! We went to 2 different malls, target, barnes & noble and a few other local places. Here's what we came back with...

It was quite a haul.

Then we ended up wrapping presents for 2 hours after we got home! So, we didn't get to bed until around 3 a.m. that night but it was all worth it. My tree looks happy with lots of pretty presents under it.