My Hearts Desire: December....A.K.A

I had all intentions to blog about the "25 days of Christmas" as we got to each day but I never dreamed this month long gift for hubby would make us so busy! I mean what was I thinking, we had something to do every single night! We made lots of new memories with this fun gift I put together for him. We enjoyed being back in our first house where we spent our first Christmas as a married couple. Why did I do "25 days of Christmas"? Because I wanted this Christmas just like all the future holidays to be memorable and full of fun and love! When Jeremy got home from his deployment in June I realized we had a lot of making up to do, I mean think about it we lost a whole year. I was determined to make up for what we lost by making every big occasion and even weekends special and make sure there's no wasted time. Examples of wasted time; silly arguments, or not capturing special moments with my camera. I encourage you to live with the same mentality whether you have a year to make up for or not. I have always been a sentimental girl but I became even more sentimental and a "make the most of every minute you have" kind of person since facing a deployment. Now, time to discuss all 25 days!

This hung in our dinning room and every morning Jeremy woke up he had a card to read with a clue as to what we would be doing that evening. The activities included Christmas traditions we do, UNC game nights and date nights at home or out on the town!

Day 1

Relaxing night at home! We enjoyed some sparkling grape juice, chocolate covered pretzels and I gave Jeremy a nice massage!

Day 2

We spent the evening in Salado with Andy, Elizabeth and Indigo! Salado is a cute little town with adorable locally owned shops and at Christmas time they go big and decorate for the season!

Day 3

Tar Heel game day! Jeremy got a new UNC t-shirt and...

We spent the day at Sea World with Andy, Elizabeth and Indigo!

(More pictures from Sea World!)

Day 4

Christmas Tradition...We did our Gingerbread House!

Day 5

We cooked dinner together! We made breakfast!

Yummy!

Day 6

Tar Heel game day! We had pizza and Jeremy's favorite ice cream for dessert!

Day 7

We went out to shop for our ornaments we get each other every year but we just couldn't find anything we liked for one another. We found ourselves looking at snow globes at Hallmark and decided we had way too many ornaments already and we were going to start something new! So now we will pick out a new snow globe each year...until we think of something else to do haha!

Day 8

We did this on Day 9 because we had small group (bible study) this night and weren't able to do it on it's specific night.

Day 9

We enjoyed some yummy french vanilla hot chocolate, a nice dinner and watched Frosty the Snowman!

Day 10

Tar Heel game day! We had a halftime competition and played basketball with a trash can and a little basketball!

Day 11

We finally got our Christmas lights up! A little late but worth it! We enjoyed our little village!

Day 12

On day 12 we stuffed all the stockings!

Day 13

Date night at Mooyah!

We were supposed to stuff the animals stockings on this night but since we already had that done so we decided to have a night on the couch! It was much need because we were both exhausted and needed cuddle time! Jeremy even went out to get dinner so I didn't have to cook, yes two out to eat nights in a row =). And about the silly smiles, well Jeremy always does something silly so instead of begging him to take a good picture I played along!

Day 15

We wrote each other love letters for our stockings! This was so sweet and fun to read Christmas morning!

Day 16

Jeremy really wanted the electronic battleship, I couldn't wait til he opened this!

Day 17

Tar Heel game day! We enjoyed some yummy pizza and milk and oreos! I thought the milk and oreos would be a fun game day activity, we dunked our oreos in milk while we watch the Tar Heels make some dunks!

Day 18

Movie night!! We went to see Arthur Christmas! Cute movie.

Day 19

Tar Heel game day! He got another new Tar Heel t-shirt!

Day 20

We built a fort in the living room! We played a fun card game and played with the animals, they had to join in on the fun!

Day 21

Game day again! Jeremy got new slippers!

Day 22

We made goodies for our neighbors!

Day 23

Lonely night...Jeremy had staff duty :(. It was supposed to be a game night but we postponed it!

Day 24

We decorated cookies!!

My plate of cookies!

My favorite cookie!

Jeremys cookies! Sad santa and evil gingerbreadman...not what I was looking for but oh well!

and his favorite!

Day 25

Christmas morning pictures!!

Santa Paws came to our house!

Hogan got a bone bigger than him!

Ham biscuits, meatballs (in other crockpot, not pictured) and a roast! Yumm

This my fire pit that my parents got me for my birthday last year and Jeremy regifted it to me lol and finally put it together for me!

My sweet baby girl Buttons! She got a new toy! She had this same toy a couple years ago and carried it everywhere but we lost it so we got her a new one!