Weekend Fun

Good Evening!

The last time I updated this blog was December 25, YIKES! I'm obviously having a hard time keeping up with student teaching, life, and my other blog on top of this one. But I thought I would post about my Valentine's Day gift to Cam (thank you Pinterest!) and my students (thank you AGAIN, Pinterest) and our Saturday events today since it was BEAUTIFUL out :)

I found the printable for this online and just added in my own writing for a few of the slips...then...

 I bought a pill container and filled it with some of his favorite candy and put the slips of paper in each day. Then throughout the whole week he could read a sweet note from me :) It was simple, cheap, and heartfelt!

As for my students, they each got a glowstick that had a paper heart attached that said...

 

 

 "You make my heart glow. Love, Ms. Boyers"

Today, it was unseasonably nice out, so Cam and I decided to go on a scenic walk and capture some pictures. We got some pretty pictures, but no I am not a professional photographer, so don't get your hopes up!

All geared up with my TENNIS shoes on, ready for a fabulous walk. If you know me, wearing tennis shoes was a task all in itself :)

 And Cameron with his boots on. If you know CAMERON at all, then this of course, was not abnormal attire :)

 Postcard worthy? Probably not.

 Pretty tree reflection in the water

 Huge tree roots!!

 Love him :)

After our walk, we ran a few errands and got supplies to make a pound cake! It was a team effort to make the dessert, and here was our result:

  It tastes pretty good! A little too much like cornbread tasting for me, but everyone else likes it so that's what counts!!

We are winding down our night with a little R&R getting ready to watch  Friends or a movie? Tough call....enjoy the rest of your night and weekend! More updates on life soon, I promise!

Until then,

Brittany

Kansas City Christmas!

Good Evening and Merry Christmas! I hope you all had a fabulous holiday with your loved ones, I know I did! I decided to blog about the first half of Christmas break and there will be a later blog from this point through New Years! I have accomplished a lot back home so far, and I have pictures to prove it!

I made a few gifts for Christmas this year thanks to PINTEREST, so here were the final results of a few :)

 I bought a mason jar ($2 at Hobby Lobby) and printed off a B&W picture of Cam and I and suspended it in oil and here was the result! Hopefully he loves it (he will be here in a little over an hour to celebrate Christmas with my family :)

I made Brandon a cash Christmas tree thanks to Pinterest :)

I also have worked some and we got to do some fun Christmas things including riding a bus all decked out for Christmas and making sugar cookies!

 

Of course we did the typical Christmas-y things including baking, wrapping, and looking at lights!

Our cookie tray we gave to Cam's parents :)

 

Lots of yummy hot chocolate :)

 Cam made breakfast one morning :)

 Lots of present wrapping

 GORGEOUS houses decorated for Christmas!

Starbucks as we site see :)

 

And of course, celebrating with family through food, worship, and presents :)

 

  Celebrating with Cam's family :)

 

 Bria and I on Christmas Eve :)

 

 Teacher stuff!!

 

 Brandon reading...shocking!!

 

 We both got Sparkling Snow candles ;) :) :)

 

 Just before this picture was taken, Brandon was doing lunges to stretch out his new jeans. HA!

 

 My lemonade holder! Bring on the party planning :)

 

 Dad was real excited about his surprise Ugg slippers!

 

 We pretty much demolished the family room floor!

 

Now I am anxiously awaiting Cameron to get here so we can open our gifts from each other and his gifts from my parents and mine from his! We have gotten to spend lots of time together this break which has been awesome since we will be apart next while I am in KC student teaching. We went on our annual Christmas date and this year I surprised him with tickets to Trans Siberian Orchestra and then we went to McCormick and Schmicks for dinner! :)

 

  Enjoy the rest of your Christmas and I will update again soon!

 

Until then,

Brittany

Christmas Things in the Little Apple

Good Afternoon!

It feels like I haven't posted forever!! It seems that portfolios, projects, papers, and finals were taking over much of my time. But don't worry, I still made time to celebrate Christmas in the midst of hustle and bustle of school! I will stop talking and just post a bunch of pictures of Christmas in Manhattan :)

After going to the Holiday Christmas Home tour in Kansas City, I gained some awesome ideas of ways to decorate for Christmas in your house!

 I loved this! You can buy Christmas boxes (or just wrap some of your own) and place them on top of a cake stand, wrap a ribbon around them, and you have a cute centerpiece for your kitchen table!

Cute idea to do with kids hands and feet to create a Christmas tree and Rudolph!

A festive way to store all your Christmas cookie cutters!

Buy a bunch of containers (the Dollar Store has great options) and decorate with food/candy! Marshmallows, peppermints, M&M's, red hots, and jelly beans are all festive options!

 Take an old frame, spray paint it red, and add some bells and white feathers and you have a cute thing for the door or wall!

SO cute and festive ;)

After seeing so many great ideas from the house tour and pinterest, Kayla and I decided to go shopping at Target and the Dollar Store to try and re-create some things for the Penthouse :)

 Kayla and I had a date night and went to Target and the dollar store and purchased decorations for the season :)

The glass containers were from the Dollar Store and then we filled it with red hots and peppermints and set on our table ;)

Kayla wrapped yarn around an old wine bottle and then we put these candle holders in front of it

All the flowers were from the Dollar Store, but who would ever know?!?!

The TV area all done :)

 Shelbi conned Cam into helping her hang the lights...

 

...he was obviously super excited to help ;)

 Kappa Christmas date party!!

We decorated cookies at the Education Ambassador Christmas party!

 

 

 

Fellow Ambassadors :)

It was a fun month in Manhattan celebrating Christmas with some great people! I just moved back home for student teaching next semester...ah I can't believe it's already here!!! Enjoy your winter break and I will post again soon with some more pictures from the break :) :)

Until then,

Brittany