Haul out the Holly!

Which is exactly what we did this weekend! We put up all our Christmas decor on Saturday. Its nice this year living in a bigger apartment because we actually have a little room to put up our tree! And it sits nicely in between two windows which I am loving!

Chris started off the morning making us some egg-nog lattes! YUM!!!

Here we go....

Chris has a "method" about putting the lights on...imagine that...

Placing the angel on the top! My favorite part!!

The finished product!

Don't worry...Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus will be here soon! We are picking them up when we go home to Texas for Thanksgiving!

We hung our stockings...err...off the bar with care.

Thanks for stopping by! Merry Chrismas y'all!!

Spontaneous

On Friday morning one of my students came to me and said "Umm...Mrs. Branigan...my mom won these concert tickets and she won't be able to go...so she wanted me to give them to you!" So, Chris and I decided to be spontaneous and go! The concert was called Rock for Babies and it benefitted the March of Dimes. Mat Kearney opened for Five for Fighting.

The concert was at the Midland by AMC. The Midland is a really old theater that they have totally re-habbed in downtown KC. The inside looks like it did 100 years ago. It is amazing!

Mat Kearney was so good! We actually liked him better than Five for Fighting. They play a lot of his songs on Grey's Anatomy which is pretty cool. He actually talked a little bit about it too and said "you write these songs that expose all your emotions and your heart...and then they play them on tv while two doctors kiss..." Ha!

Thanks for a great night Lillie!

Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving!!

Last night we had our 2nd Annual Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving! It was alot of fun and we ended up having 34 people come! We made a ham and everyone brought the traditional sides and lots of yummy desserts : ) Here are some pics!

Going through the line...

This is the set-up before everyone came



(These are a little out of order) This was right after we put the ham in the oven...so excited!! Last year we made a turkey so this year we attempted the ham. The ham was MUCH easier!

My pride and joy!

Happy Thanksgiving!!