Caleb and I put our Christmas tree up over our long 4 day break. It's a day I've been looking forward to since we started dating. To, one day, put up OUR Christmas tree, together...in our home. Granted, its not the biggest tree you've ever seen...but she's ours, and she's perfect.
We have a little 6 foot, artificial tree. She has no official name yet...but she's definitely got spunk, so I will find the perfect name. Caleb unwrapped her and she practically busted when the box opened...she couldn't wait to be shown off.
This makes me laugh so hard, outtake. I look like I'm hugging our tree. |
We had a lot of fun unwrapping her and making her nice and full. Then we decorated her with our cutest ornaments (which I sadly cannot find most of mine right now!), and decided to start on the rest of the apartment (more pictures to come on our tree, she's a work in progress right now).
Our stocking holders! |
We were so busy decorating, it made us hungry, so we decided to cook and bake our little faces off. I originally wanted to get dolled up and ask Caleb to go out to eat somewhere, but before I got the chance, he suggested we pick a fun recipe, go buy the ingredients and have a night in. So that, we did.
Homemade(ish) buffalo chicken pizza.
Back story - in college, Caleb worked at two pizza places and kiiiind of became a master. I tried hiding my drool when he asked "is it cool if I throw garlic, butter and cheese on the crust??"...I'm sorry, is that even a question?
and we washed it down with some brownies, and red velvet cupcakes. YUM!
Sunday was the perfect ending to a perfect break from work. Church, a lazy Sunday, and a Bengals WIN! What more could a girl ask for!?
I will say, we didn't eat too healthy over our little break from life. It seemed that we were having too much fun to worry about calories. I still logged everything, just didn't let it consume me. However this week, I'm going to be good!! I have to recover from all the carbs ;)
Hope you all had a great weekend as well!
One of my favorite things to do in college was make experimental pizzas with my girlfriends, it was tons of fun and we came up with some interesting recipes!
ReplyDeleteI think we have the same tree!!
ReplyDeleteAnd yay! Setting up your first tree as a married couple is so much fun :)
Yay decorating! And yay for your first tree! I'm sure she is stunning!
ReplyDeleteRed velvet cupcakes make my heart so happy. And I LOVE seeing someone else with a fake tree! Living in Portland, a majority of the west coast gets their Christmas trees from our tree farms so it's unheard of to have a fake tree. But I love mine :-) And it was so easy to put up!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! Christmas tress make everything a little happier and brighter. :) That pizza looks amaze balls! Glad you enjoyed your long weekend
ReplyDeleteYummm my mouth is watering looking at that pizza! I think we had the same tree last year too! You can't get real ones down in florida, but I loved our little tree!
ReplyDeleteOMG, that pizza looks SO GOOD!!! I'm practically drooling over here, but that may be because I haven't had breakfast yet and I'm hungry. ;)
ReplyDeleteLove your tree and the ornaments!!! Also, please send some of those tasty looking red velvet cupcakes to me :)
ReplyDeleteloving the tree! I am so bummed that I won't get to decorate one this year!
ReplyDeleteMarried holidays for the win!! They are so much more fun married. I'm sure of it.
ReplyDeleteWe got our little tree up this weekend too. I'm kinda jealous of all the bigger trees, and fancy decorating, I've seen others do but ours is perfect for us! (what do your stockings look like?)
ReplyDeleteSO cute! I love the first picture it makes me so excited for the holidays! :) I love tree decorating!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see the rest of your decorations! I want to make Caleb's pizza!
ReplyDeleteYay for Christmas trees and just Christmas in general! This looks just like our Sunday night except we had leftovers instead of pizza (seriously, leftovers for dayssss). Love it! :)
ReplyDeletechristmas trees make me so happy! yay!
ReplyDeleteI love that first picture!! So abstract & pretty! We have artificial too! I grew up with real trees.. but I think artificial trees are the best! Less clean up. And we buy that pine spray to get the smell. =)
ReplyDeleteThat pizza looks SO good! Can I request that one of our meals when I come hang out?!
ReplyDeleteLove that you two put up your tree together, you cute married couple you!! :)
I love the shot of the lights! Excited for you :)
ReplyDeleteWe need to invest in an artificial tree. It would be so much better!! I love that you two enjoy each other...you are both so much fun!
ReplyDeleteI love that you're planning on naming your tree. too cute :D
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Yay so fun! I can't wait to get ours!
ReplyDeleteAnd the pizza looks delicious!!
I loved, loved, loved putting up mine and Michael's tree as a married couple that first year. Makes my heart so happy. That pizza looks amazing! Put it on the menu for when I finally get to come visit.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to hear the name of your tree. Also, that pizza? Oh my word.
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas, pretty sure that same tree was Brandon's first tree too and we're still using it.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a ton of fun and your food looks amazingly delicious!!
ReplyDeleteWE HAVE THE SAME TREE! WE HAVE THE SAME TREE!!! Ours was $20 at Target!
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