Christmas Break Part 1

This Christmas has been the best Christmas ever! Break started off by finishing finals and celebrating to be done with this incredibly long and hard semester! It feels so wonderful to be done and I am no where near ready to be starting up again next week! To celebrate, I picked out a wreath on Pinterest and decided to make it!

 My Inspiration

 Wa La!

 It was such a fun, easy wreath to make! Granted it is time consuming, but a very cute and different Christmas wreath. All you need is peppermint candies, a styrofoam floral wreath, hot glue, and some ribbon. This year's was an experiment, but I definitely know what to do differently when I make another one!! 

After finals we hopped on a plane and headed to Oregon. It was such a great feeling getting on the plane and knowing we had nothing to do and could just enjoy the trip! Unlike normal Oregon winters it was sunny and warm our whole trip! 

Saturday after we arrived we had the pleasure of going to my niece Maia's baptism. It was so wonderful and we had such a great time! She is such a fun little girl and I am so glad she is a part of our family!! I don't have any pictures on my camera, but I will put some up when I get them from my mom!! 

Monday my mom and I got our hair done. I can no longer claim my hair is all natural :( It looks like it is and I am lucky enough that I won't have any grow out issues, but I did give my hair a little boost! Most people probably can't tell, but I'm okay with that :) My hair in the winter decides is it going to be a drab yellow color, rather than it's normal vibrant bright blonde color, so I gave it a little lift and brought it back to life. I love it! It is so wonderful to have nice bright hair, instead of drab dark yellow! And everyone deserves a little boost every now and then :) 

I honestly cannot remember what we did on Tuesday, so probably just relaxed which is something we have not been able to do in a long time. It was wonderful! Wednesday we got up and did a little Christmas shopping and then headed to Corvallis to make Gingerbread houses with Stephani and her family. It was so much fun and Laren and I greatly improved in our house decorating skills!

 This was our terribly awful gingerbread ( but really it was graham crackers) house. 

Our house this year was much better, and much funner to decorate!

 Me with our finished gingerbread house. I was quite proud... haha

 This was very serious business and we worked very hard! 

 Our Wheaties roof!

 Gavin was so sweet the whole time. He was constantly complimenting us on our houses and just been super nice. It was very cute!

 All of the finished houses.

 Front View

 Front / Side View

 Back view. The heart is my favorite! 

We had a blast doing our gingerbread house (well at least I did)! I think it is most definitely going to be a tradition in our family. The little kids were so fun and quite the entertainment. Being able to spend time with family truly is the best and was the highlight of our trip! 

More on the rest of the break to come later!