Break Continued

Break was very busy last week. I flew back to Ohio on Wed. for an Invisalign course on Thursday. I then drove back to Chicago Thursday night. Friday I worked out in the morning, then we spent Friday evening with one of Art's co-workers and his family. We had an awesome time. Saturday was spent shopping at the mall. Sunday was spent watching football with our other friends here. Now it's back to just cleaning the house, doing laundry, finishing the Christmas shopping, working out, and watching netflix for me. As promised here are some pictures of my Christmas tree project.

 The glitter, glue, ornaments, ribbon and rhinestones I bought at Michaels and Target grand total around 20$.

 

The tree topper in progress

 The finished tree topper I put together

 Some of the finished ornaments

The finished tree with lights and all.

Free Time

The best decision I made was to take my National Board exam before Thanksgiving. What it means now is that I have a lot, and I mean a lot, of free time on my hands. Art still has to work during the week so I am basically like a stay at home wife, not mom because we don't have kids. I decided that I needed to start some projects because I would go crazy just sitting at home all day long, I mean you can only work out so much. So day one yesterday was a success at what I call "being domestic". I drove to Michael's and spent almost an hour searching for craft supplies. Then I went to Target to finish collecting supplies. My project is to make most of the decorations for our very first Christmas tree. So far I have made the tree topper and started on decorating all the ornaments. I like the way it is going so far...so get excited for pictures to come! I have also cleaned the apartment, and plan to do some more today, and baked some treats for Art to take to his co-workers. Treats made so far include: peanut butter cookies with Hershey's kisses in the middle and dark chocolate pretzel bark. I would say day one was a complete success. Any idea's for good time killers let me know because I have about 3 more weeks to fill:)

Holidays

It's amazing how different the holidays are when you are grown up verses when you are a kid. I mean Thanksgiving for me when I was young was a time to pig out and eat lots of pie. It also meant time off school which was awesome. Now it still means time off from school, but now being able to just be with family and really being thankful for everything is the best part. I mean you don't realize when your a kid how much you have to be thankful for. Then there is Christmas, as a kid means PRESENTS and hopefully lots of them. Now honestly I couldn't care less about the presents I get. To me it means a time to be with family and just enjoy each other. Now more then ever that is all I want for Christmas. I barely get to see any of my family (including my husband) so just being with everyone and laughing and enjoying each other is amazing.
I just can't wait for Christmas, I get to back to California for the first time in a year! That is the longest I have ever been away from home. I am so excited I just can't stand it anymore I want to be there now.

Lake Forest

 So this post is probably oh say 5 months overdue but hey that's just my style hahaha. Anyway here they are a few pictures of Art's "husband pad." That's my made up name for his place because it's his very first apartment on his own even though he is married, haha.

Top photo's are of the bedroom and closet

Middle are of the kitchen, front enterance and dinning area

Bottom photos are of the living room (which now has a new couch and bigger tv) I just can't find the updated photos at the moment

Beautiful Fall

This year has been an amazing year for fall. I must say that moving to the midwest does have a few upsides and the season of fall is one of them. If I am going to have to live through miserable winters then the other seasons must make up for it a little right? Fall the past few years I have felt has been such a short season, seriously has felt like only a matter of weeks long. For some reason this year we have been blessed with a long season, I mean it's November and we have yet to have snow (I know I just jinxed this by saying it but hey it is November). As I was driving to the gym yesterday I couldn't help but just be in absolute aw of the beauty of the fall color shining in the sun (yet another rarity in Ohio...sunshine). So I took a short walk when I got home from the gym to snap a few pictures. I must say I am no photographer and these pictures don't nearly do justice to the beauty of fall but hey at least I got something right?

 From the backyard parking lot of the Delt house

The Front of the Delt House