December and January Recap

 Hey guys!  Wow, I haven't posted anything since November... That might be a new record?  Or close to it anyways.  Our December was very busy for work, but we tried really hard to get into the Christmas spirit and have a nice month. It was definitely a weird Christmas, but we managed to still have some fun and talk to some family and see some family (over Zoom and FaceTime only - we didn't see anyone in person).  We watched all of the movies from my Christmas Bucket List, and we did the rest of the Bucket List too!!  So, all of that definitely helped our month feel more festive and "normal".  Here are some pictures from our December: 

Here were our decorations in our downstairs den!  The tree looks dark in the middle, but that's just something weird that happened in the photo!  I promise there were lights all over the whole tree :)

Another fun thing for our December was that we had a beer advent calendar (made by Kevin... He picked out 24 individual beers for each of us!  It was super fun), and we had a cheese advent calendar from Aldi too.  Beer and cheese every day til Christmas!  It was really awesome. Here are a few of them: 

Here was our living room tree!  We had a real tree upstairs in our living room, and an artificial tree downstairs in our den.  We've never had 2 trees before, but we figured that this year would be a good year to try it since we needed all the Christmas spirit we could get! :) 

And here are some of our living room decorations: 

In mid-December we got a pretty big snowstorm, and Guinness loved it!  I don't think we got any real snow last year (just some mild dustings), so he missed playing frisbee in the snow.  Here are some pictures of Guinness reunited with some snowy frisbee: 

And here's Guinness with a few of his Christmas presents: 

Here he is wearing his bowtie from Adriana!  And his lip got stuck on his teeth which always cracks me up, so he looks like he's smirking or embarrassed or something. 

And here he is with a Woodstock squeaky toy from Lindsey! 

And January has been a CRAZY month, and to be honest I'm glad it's almost over.  The one bright spot in January was Inauguration Day!!  That was a very happy day, and Kevin and I made sure to celebrate with a special bottle of champagne that we have been saving for many years.  We bought it many years ago, and we were going to drink this special bottle of champagne on our 5th Wedding Anniversary, but that was in June of this year and that was the day that we lost power due to the derecho storm.  I don't know if you remember from my blog post during that time but we actually were without power for like 4 or 5 days.  So... we did NOT drink the champagne on our 5th anniversary.  Haha :)  But, it was a great way to celebrate on Inauguration Day. 

So, that was pretty much our December and January!  Sorry it's been so long since I've posted... In December I was just really focused on enjoying it as much as possible, and trying to feel Christmas-y. And then January has just been overwhelming and crazy.  But, I will do better at writing updates!  We are getting a big ol' snowstorm right now, so I'll post some fun pictures of Guinness enjoying that.  And, our dear Guinness is turning 8 years old in just a few days!  Crazy :)