our first christmas card

Being that it is our first year on our own I talked James into taking "Christmas Card" photos. I figured that it was only fair to show you guys the best of the best... We did take over 500 photos after all. It would be a waste not to show off our awesome photo taking skills! lol




I will forever, always be pushing up my glasses. 100% nerd status over here. I love it, truth be told :)



See... nerd status. Running strong at 100% and climbing. I make an awesome monkey face though, right?





We did a dance, had a tickle fight. The beer was inevitable. Really it's the best choice we made all day.



Don't ask what that face is below. I couldn't tell you if I tried.




This is the picture we ended up choosing. I think it was by far the best one because as soon as we saw it we both shouted out, "That's the one!!!".


                    Beer,

                          Thank you for making our first Christmas card perfect, possible, and
                    totally natural! I really can't thank you enough.

                   Love, 
                   Hannah 

We spent a great afternoon taking pictures and laughing our butts off. A memory I will definitely keep in our scrapbooks of 2011.





After we got that figured out we added a signature in Photoshop, got our prints made and I went to work on our card. All in all, it was a success. I am so proud of our first card and I hope that we have many more to come!

Have you guys sent out Christmas cards yet? 

If you made your own and did a post about it or have pictures I would love, love, love to see :)

I love to stalk other peoples Christmas cards for ideas and inspiration!

xoxohannah

first frost

It's been a couple days since I took these photos but I really wanted to share them with you. I'm sure frost and ice is a normal occurrence for most but Thursday, December 1st truly marked my first day of real winter. I about froze taking these pictures. I'm beginning to realize I need to hurry up and make that beanie and gloves because it is getting CHILLY fast!



I hope the snow doesn't show up too soon. Maybe we'll come home to New Year's snow in January. You never know! Either way it wont be a White Christmas for us this year...

Happy Saturday and have a great weekend!

xoxohannah

a feast for two

Staring at these pictures makes me hungry all over again.

I'm going to go heat up a mini apple pie... be right back.



Did you miss me? Probably not right... Well maybe that's because this is your first visit.

If you are visiting through A Very Merry Indie Christmas, Welcome! I'm Hannah and that handsome man above is my boyfriend, James. We are making a life on our own in Virginia after a relocation move for James' job. 3,000 miles is a long way from home but we are making due and are having a bit of fun along the way. What else can you do? I say dance and sing around the living room to Taylor Swift before I drown our days in holiday music but he won't go for it. Oh well. More fun for me, right?

Anywho! Please enjoy, get comfy and stay awhile! This weekend will be full of fun, holiday DIY decorations for our first (handmade) Christmas. I'm glad to have you and I can't wait to get to know each of you through this link up :)

So, as you can see I was busy setting everything up (for pictures) and James was just ready to eat it all. I decided to set everything up very "fancy-like" for pictures because it was out "first" Thanksgiving on our own and I wanted it to be very pretty.

Truth be told, it was mostly for you guys. Or it could be my unconscious need to be the perfect homemaker at 22 years old.

Perfectionism? 

Yes, over here please. 

Oh hello, I think we've met once or twice before.

Whatever the reason, I don't care. It came out fantastic! A HUGE, GINORMOUS thank you goes out to my dad for the stuffing recipe and game hen tips. Talking to him for 5 hours while I cooked everything was definitely my favorite part of the day. God bless James loving his video games :)



Cupcake size and mini cupcake size apple pies are definitely a hit around here and they may make an appearance at Christmas if James' mom lets me cook while I'm on vacation. *wink wink Terry* haha

The additional dough cups made for perfect mini ice cream bowls so I didn't have to dirty extra dishes (if I didn't want to) obviously though I did since I wanted a bowl. I seriously need to invest in more ramekins. I use those bad boys for EVERYTHING.




I thought I would be able to pick my favorite dish from the evening and I really just can't. I'd say mashed potatoes and pie are tied at the top because I'm debating about getting some of both right now.

I'm a food enthusiast. Obviously. Unless it's pumpkin pie... Sorry guys, just not my cup of tea!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful day with family, friends and food. No matter where you live or what you were or weren't celebrating!

Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving day dish? 

xoxohannah