happy holidays

My bestie, Kristina, and I at our office holiday party. We love any excuse to put on fancy clothes.

 

Happy holidays!

 



life lately

It has been a busy December! In addition to all of the holiday festivities, Anders has been working his crazy holiday schedule at the market (80+ hours in a week!). We also signed up to be dog sitters on Rover and have had two clients already. We had a nice and relaxing Christmas Day, and we are looking forward to an easy New Year's Eve as well. I'm excited about our plans for 2016, but I'm always excited about plans, so that's nothing new! Let's do this!

Our first Rover client, Calvin

Holiday time with the boys at the market

My office is full of silly people especially during the holidays

Our second Rover client, Mac (we loved him so much we wanted to keep him)

Christmas Day dog walks with Mac and Maggie (and Santa)

 A pottery piece by 3SevensPottery I had made for Anders for Christmas. 

Happy New Year!

you cut

These pictures are from a few weeks ago when we went out to Carnation to a you-cut Christmas tree farm. We picked this particular farm because it is salmon safe meaning the farm protects wetlands, controls soil erosion and encourages plant and wildlife diversity. Awesome! We went early because we were working around a Seahawks game, which is why everything is covered in a blanket of frost. We're pretty happy with our little tree. 

christmas for maggie

We took Maggie on a little walk on the holiday. We trekked up to a new park in our neighborhood and ended up running into the doggie oasis, which was celebrating the holiday and giving out tennis balls. Maggie's favorite! She has been sleeping with it ever since.

(I did not plant that ball there. She really did sleep with it.)

merry christmas!

Hope you all are having a relaxing and happy day. 

Here are some slightly blurry pictures (!?!) from our Christmas morning.

(Maggie is thrilled) 

christmas skull

I was a little unsure on whether or not I should post a picture of this year's Christmas ornament since it's sort of nuts. We found this stuffed skull in a small shop in Nashville when we were on our southern road trip (which was around Halloween). We thought he was cool. Maybe not Christmas-y exactly, but all well. We sort of love him.

Last year's ornament and 2011's ornament. 

and so it begins

Today marks the start of Anders' crazy Christmas schedule. He will be working 12 hour days (sometimes longer, mostly longer) for 15 days straight until Christmas Day. Then, he'll go back to work the next day until New Years. It's nuts. However, if he has to work that kind of schedule, I'm glad it's at that crazy fun place because they have all kinds of good times down there. Wish him luck!

(and go Seahawks)

tree shopping

Well, we could have gotten ourselves a Christmas tree from the market mighty easily or from the lot that is just down the street, but we decided driving three hours to the top of a mountain to cut our own was a great idea. And it probably would have been a great idea had it not been pouring down sideways rain the ENTIRE time. We lasted 10 minutes...maybe 5...and then we stopped at a lot and got one anyway. The end.

market tree lighting

To kick of the holiday season, I went with my friends, Dina and Jake (Jake works at the fish market with Anders!) and their super sweet baby to see Santa and the tree lighting at the market. Anders and Jake's crazy holiday work schedule starts on the 10th, so I was really happy we got to squeeze in this festive night before things get nuts.Thanks for the invite, Jake and Dina!

 Nothing cuter than this kid. Nothing.

 Waiting for the boys to finish their end of work huddle.

Ryan got himself a tree

merry (early) christmas

It's football season, which means Anders and I spend every weekend in front of the TV watching our beloved team. It doesn't make for very interesting pictures and stories. However, this week was bye week (meaning the Seahawks rested and didn't play), so we ventured out of the house to visit our good friends and their cute kids. Sure, all we did was watch more football, but I did take a break to help the kids decorate their windows for Christmas. They are so stinkin' cute! I seriously can barely handle them. I'm totally ready for the Christmas season now.

photo-a-day

Kate and I finally wrapped up our December photo-a-day project. We are actually continuing on into January, but I thought I would share a few of my favorites from the last of the December shots (you can also see the first set here and the second set here). 

Subject: Tree Topper

Taken by me

Subject: Scarf 

Taken by Kate

Subject: Morning

Taken by Kate

Subject: Sky view

Taken by me

Subject: Sky view

Taken by Kate

Subject: Peaceful

Taken by me

Subject: Christmas Eve

Taken by Kate

Subject: Stocking

Taken by Kate

Subject: Winter

Taken by Kate

And this one wasn't part of the project, but it was a nice picture Kate took of my Dad. Hi, Dad!

a miller christmas

We spent Christmas Eve with Anders' family and Christmas day just him, me and Maggie. Biscuits and gravy were involved, and we didn't change out of our PJs all day. It was great. Hope you all had a wonderful holiday too. Here are some pictures.

Uncle Anders

Our nieces and nephews.  I always make them take a group shot BEFORE they get to open gifts. Works out better that way :) 

Nothing better than surprised faces! 

Maggie's Christmas bone 

Seahawks Santa makes us breakfasat

Happy Christmas!