Thank you

Yesterday Andy and I spent the night watching The Muppet Christmas Carol and relaxing. I can't believe Christmas is just days away. Time goes so quickly-especially when you're busy. This week will be the busiest yet. Projects to finish at work, family Christmas parties, my sister's birthday and lots of fun planned. I'm excited for it all.

When I left the house for work this morning, there was just a light dusting of snow on the ground. It looked so pretty and it gave me the happiest feeling.


Since I didn't do this at Thanksgiving, I thought now would be the perfect time. As the year comes to an end, there are so many things that I have to be thankful for.

-I'm thankful for Andrew. I can't imagine my life without him. He is the most patient and loving man I've ever known. He puts up with my quirks, loves my Ashland and Mauney, and makes every day better than the one before.

-I'm thankful for my family who are always there for me at the drop of a hat, if I need them. We have each others backs and through the years we've been shoulders for each other to lean on. I'm thankful for all my mom did as we were growing up to give us all the amazing opportunities we had. I'm thankful that she realized the importance of family vacations once a year, holiday traditions, and teaching us to be each others biggest cheerleaders. I'm thankful for my sisters. Growing up with them was amazing fun and I'm grateful that we got to share so much.

-I'm thankful for Andy's parents who treat me as if I was their own kid. I'm grateful for his dad who really seems to 'get' me. I'm thankful for his mom and how I know I can call her any time, whenever I need to chat. I'm thankful that when I go to their home I feel just as comfortable and welcome as if I was at my mom's house. I'm grateful that they've welcomed me into their family with open arms and never once judged me. I'm thankful for Andy's brother's- Corey who is always willing to watch the animals when we go out of town and who puts up with Mauney's vendetta against him and tells me thank you when I make dinner and Bret for always being so nice to me whenever we are all together and thinking to personally invite me to the family camp out.

-I'm thankful for Heather, Andrea, Stephanie, Erin, and Dana who have proven to be true friends and have stuck by me and make an effort to keep in touch. I'm thankful for lunch dates and facebook messages and packages and phone calls that remind me what great friends I have.

-I'm thankful for the chance to finish school and for everyone's support and encouragement in accomplishing this goal.

-I'm thankful for a good job that challenges me and a boss who sees my potential and gives me the opportunity to learn more.

-I'm thankful for this blog that really allows me to be myself. I'm thankful for all of my bloggie friends who keep in touch and care what's going on in my life. I'm thankful for all of the other blogs that I read that inspire me and spur my creativity on a daily basis.

And I'm thankful to be moving into 2011 and starting new adventures. I wish you all the best this holiday season. May 2011 bring good things to you and yours. Much love.

xoxo-Kimberly

From 'meh' to yeah! Someday.

If Andy and I ever get the kitchen remodel finished, then we'll go back to working on the bedroom remodel. And if we ever get the bedroom remodel finished then I'd like to tackle the living room.

Right now our living room is 'meh' at best. It's seriously lacking. Our couches are comfortable and in good shape, but they don't fit the space-especially now that we've knocked out the wall between the living room and the kitchen. Also, while I typically love green, it's just not the right match for what we envisioned.




I've been playing around with some ideas and this is what I came up with.

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Both Andy and I are sold on the gray couch so I tried to work around that. It's just an idea of course, and will most likely change, but I had fun dreaming of having a living room that fit our style and personality a little better. This is something we'll have to work our way towards.

What do you think?

xoxo-Kimberly

Organization + pretty = love

I am completely in love with this mudroom.

xoxo-Kimberly

Just what I needed

The other day, when my sister Jen came to visit, I was complaining to her that I couldn't find a cute wreath for my front door. Little did I know that my mom and Jen were actually in the process of making a wreath for me! What a great surprise. Isn't it cute?


I think Jen said they made five of these wreaths. It took them a couple of days to complete them as it required cutting out quite a few circles of burlap and cute fabric. I'm so lucky that one was for me! Now my front door can have some Christmas cheer.

xoxo-Kimberly

Wednesday *Christmas* Wishlist-on a Thursday

2011 Owl Calendar- so cute!

I've had my eye on this sweater for awhile now.



Wouldn't mind a reason to spend more time at Barnes & Noble



These earrings. Love them.

One of my favorite perfumes from Clinique-Heart.

This clock would be awesome.




This houndstooth purse would be perfect!



Love this print!

What's on your wishlist this year?

xoxo-Kimberly

Oh Christmas Tree

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xoxo-Kimberly

Weekend Images

What an awesome weekend! I took a half day on Thursday and then took Friday off so I could go with Andy to his company Christmas party. This year we stayed at The Canyons in Park City. I thought I'd share some pictures from the party and from the rest of the weekend.

My sisters, Jen and Lindsey came by on Thursday afternoon for a visit.

Jen brought Nellie and we had so much fun playing with her. She's discovered that she can stick out her tongue so we kept trying to get her to do it.

Lindsey also cut and colored my hair. So convenient to have two stylists in the family.

Then Andy and I headed to Park City. Our room was gorgeous! Here we are all fancied up ready to go to dinner.

The view from our room. It was nice to relax in that hot tub and heated pool after dinner and the show.

This is at dinner. The food was so good and the talent show after was really funny. We had a great time.

I had to take a picture of the centerpieces because I thought they were so pretty. They even had an ice sculpture in the shape of ES3's logo but I didn't get a picture of that.

The next day we bummed around Park City for a while but it was raining to we came home.

On Saturday I did some Christmas shopping. I also made my ornament for the family ornament exchange. I thought this one was going to be easy this year but three hours later I was still working on it!

We also watched some movies. Last night we watched To Catch a Thief by Alfred Hitchcock.

And I make Chocolate Crinkle Cookies and hot apple cider. I found the cookie recipe at Little Brown Pen.

Definitely a successful weekend!

xoxo-Kimberly