Reasons why I love the holidays!

#5: Inflatable Decorations!!
This may be the kid in me coming out, but I absolutely LOVE blow-up Christmas decorations! They make me so happy! I love driving around the neighborhood and seeing them. There is a huge penguin (which I couldn't find a picture of) on my way home from work. I can't help but scream "BIG PENGUIN" and smile all the way home. 

This big santa comes a close second to the penguin. If I saw this in real life, I would have the hardest time not stealing it. Anyone know where I can purchase one?!?! Here are a few non-traditional blow-ups that are amusing:

And that reminds me.. these blow up decorations are gaining popularity. They aren't just for Christmas anymore! They have them for Halloween:

And Thanksgiving: 

Which is an obvious favorite because it doubles as a Hokie for VT games!! :) 


oh how I love them...

Reasons why I love the holidays!

#4: Christmas Music!!
It's finally acceptable to listen to Christmas music 24/7! (Even though it plays on my regular Pandora station year-round). It makes me so happy!!! Here are a few of my all-time favorites:
a) Feliz Navidad- Celine Dion 
         I'm obsessed with Feliz Navidad, and Celine rocks it. I make it my ringtone the day after Thanksgiving every year. 
b) Where are you Christmas- Faith Hill
c) All I want for Christmas is You- Mariah Carey [everyone's favorite]
d) Michael Buble- Grown Up Christmas List
e) N*sync- Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

They say it's your birthday...

And here are precious pictures I received from Madeleine:

Birthday Celebrations

So tomorrow is my real birthday but we celebrated on Saturday. It's my best friend Emily's birthday as well so we rented out the kegbus:

With 28 of our bestest friends to take us to the dueling piano bar at the National Harbor! Everyone had an awesome time!! Of course we got pulled on stage multiple times to celebrate our birthday. Including doing the hokie pokie with all the other birthday patrons! And they didn't even know we were hokies! 

PS please notice Madeleine creeping in both pictures of the birthday girls above! And she wonders why she took a cab home by herself, haha oh man I LOVE that girl! 

...Then we all went next door and rode the bull! 

So it was a super fun night. We got some great presents too! One of my best friends Meesh couldn't make it so she ordered us happy birthday pizzas! Isn't that so sweet?

And remember Mrs. Potato Head? Our roomate's boyfriend, Dave made us a Mrs. Potato Head snowman!! Isn't she adorable with all her accessories? Such a great present!

Thanks friends for making it an awesome 24th birthday!! 

Reasons why I love the holidays!

#2: SNOW! 

So Saturday was the earliest snowfall in our area since 1997! Waking up to huge snowflakes made me super happy. I danced around all morning chanting "Snow on my birthday party!!" since we decided to celebrate our birthday that night. Every kid in the neighborhood made a snowman, and I can only imagine the amount of joy it brought them to have a snow day! (It would have been nice to have a weekday snow day, we'll hope for that next!)

Which also brings up another thing I love about the holidays:

#3: Snowflake decorations

Everything is so festive and Christmasy. I love it! 

Christmas Journal

Isn't this adorable?! It's from 2006, but is so cute! Find more here!

Reasons why I love the holidays!

#1: Peppermint!! 
My favorite flavor ever comes into style around the holidays! Everything is mint flavored, and I love it!! 

And we can't forget cookies, cupcakes, bars, all kinds of peppermint desserts!! 

There are also other fun holiday flavors: Eggnog, Gingerbread...  but those just don't do it for me like mint does. Enjoy!

Wednesday

Have a warm Wednesday! 

Christmas collage

Here is my Christmas collage from last year! I probably won't make a new one, I really like this one. Merry Christmas to your computer desktop! :) I'm such a dork. 

happy december!!

YAY! It's my favorite month of the year! Not only is it my birthday, but it's Christmas!! I'm currently listening to Christmas pandora, it's finally acceptable! I love the holidays.  Everything about it: Christmas lights, snowflakes, peppermint, hot chocolate, and of course, holiday cupcakes!! Get ready for 25 days of holiday stuff!! Oh and Day #1 of our advent calendar!!