Procrastination

Friends and family-next time you see us, tell me to put out my hand because I deserve to have it slapped. I cannot believe we are in February and I had Christmas decor still on our blog, so embarrassing, it is was like leaving Christmas lights on your house two months too late, but with the blog the whole world can see it not just the neighbors.

The key highlights from the last couple of months were the Engagement Party, the ski trip to Crystal Mountain, and Florida.

Engagement Party:
Alexis and Lucy two of my bridesmaids put on a wonderful engagement party for us. Byron's parents came up from Olympia and met the wedding party and we all toasted to the celebration of our soon to be wedding ( a little over 6 months). Thank you to all our friends and family who came and to Lucy and Alexis for a great night.

Crystal:

One of Byron good friends from College did an amazing job of getting everyone together for a weekend at Crystal. There were 11 of us that stayed in one cabin at the top of the mountain, we drew the short straws and stayed on the bunk-beds. It actually ended up being pretty fun because we all giggled for about 30 mins like we were little kids before we fell asleep. The skiing part is a whole different story.

Lift Ticket: $60
Ski Rental: $35
Lessons:$90
Me going down the hill in Kyle Barker's ski boots PRICELESS

For some reason, I put his boots on thinking they were mine, needless to say I fell down the entire hill and completely bruised my pride. I now have a whole new appreciation for Byron and his friends skiing.

For Adam Grant's birthday the Lake Tapps boys ( Byron, Fehr, Grant) went on their "man nature walk" during the night. Which really meant playing on the chair lift, sliding down the mountain, and trying to scare everyone else in the cabin.

Florida
Our very good friends were married in Florida and Byron was in the wedding. However, I was more nervous for everything then he was..... I did the brides make-up. Shocking she took me up on the offer as I am always the one who goes just a little too far when it comes to the blush or eye make-up. However, she looked great and it was a gorgeous ceremony in Key West. The best part was hanging out with everyone, especially the wedding party.

ENGAGED!

We are officially engaged! Byron did such a wonderful job of planning and I could not believe how perfect everything was. We started the night attending Zoo Lights with the Haley family. Byron's mother-Bobbe, sister-Jana, and I had no idea that he was planning on proposing that night. Jim, Byron's father and him constructed the sign two weeks before with over a thousand lights and set it up at the zoo two days before the big night. Some of our closest friends were there to support, celebrate, and of course they had to turn on the sign......
We walked around the zoo for about a hour looking at all the lights. After walking down a hill and taking a picture in front of my favorite tree he got on ONE KNEE and POPPED the QUESTION. Then came the "highest pitched" voice you will ever hear. In the background was playing "At Last" one of my favorite songs. Hope you enjoy the below video and pictures.

A special thanks to all our friends and family without you this night would not have been possible.

Fa.... la' la' la' la' la' la' la la'

We went on our bi-weekly "date night" to the Nutcracker. For some reason Byron nor I remembered the story. During intermission, we both looked at each other smiling saying, "What is going on." We then spent the next 10 minutes reading the story and just started laughing because we knew the plot all along, but we were just trying to read into the storyline and find some hidden meaning. Why was it so much easier as kids to understand the nutcracker?

Christmas Party

I think Byron may kill me for uploading this, but it is too cute and too funny not to. Lucy, one of our best friends celebrated her birthday and in true Lucy fashion thought it would be fun to do a Tacky Christmas Sweater Party. I of course thought this was a great idea, but there was one small glitch when the night went down....... Byron and Lucy were the only ones wearing the sweaters. Below is a picture of Byron with his Christmas sweater (his grandmother gave him when he was in college) with Lucy's wrapped around him. He kept laughing and saying," Am I embarrassing you"? Well, here is my formal payback for being embarrassed all that night! Friends and family, please enjoy.

Mistletoe

Tis' The Season

We finished decorating Sunday night and somehow we pulled our decorations together and made it work. I taught Byron the proper way to string lights and after two trips to the store, 6 boxes of lights, and 2 hours later he was done stringing them on our 6 foot tree. I made the comment, that it is always worse taking them off and Byron just gave the calm shhhh....... I almost electrocuted myself trying to hang ornaments from a light fixture. Pottery Barn forgot to mention the turning off the light part, Byron almost had a heart attack, but he let me complete my project!

We also included a picture of the newly painted red table. Literally, we had blood, sweat, and tears over this thing, but it is finally done and we love it!

Arizona and Baby Lina

Byron and I flew down to visit my sister Sarah, her husband Brian and the newest addition to the family-Lina. We decided to take Lina to her first movie, New Moon at the drive-in. It wasn't too cold for November....