A much needed break!

I don't know about you, but I really needed those few days off. Thanksgiving was awesome, as usual. We ate too much, laughed too hard, and tossed too much football. JK that's not possible ;)
I'm so thankful for the time I got to spend with family that I don't see enough, and the weather was incredible, so that helped!

It was pretty funny when Caleb and my brother showed up in the same OSU shirt, too!

We did our usual Black Friday/Christmas shopping and had a blast. Friday we did a whole lot of relaxing and then I met up with Lyndsie for dinner. I'm glad she decided to hang even though she was really sick, we had a great time, as usual!

Saturday, we enjoyed watching OSU win their game, and then we decorated our home! It's honestly one of my favorite things to do with Caleb! Deciding where to put the tree, placing all of our awesome ornaments, hanging all of our decorations, etc.! Of course, we had the "Pop Christmas" station on and I sang a little too loud when N'Sync came on ;)

We didn't do anything fancy the remainder of the weekend, just grabbed dinner at our local favorite Mexican place, and spent a lot of time cuddling on the couch watching a lot of football. It was my favorite, and it really has me itching for our stay-cation week mid-December!

Also...WHO DEY!!??!?!! 9-2 feels SO good! We celebrated the win by tossing football outside for well over an hour. I hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving and got to spend it with all of your favorite people!

I started this morning with this youtube workout video that rocked my world - although the trainer was a little silly, her voice kept me going. She kept reassuring me my glutes would look great after ;) I really need to make some changes in my daily lifestyle, both big and small, and this was a great start on this Monday morning. Here's to a new week!

My 4-day Thanksgiving "break".

In typical recap fashion, I have lots of photos for you. Wednesday when I got off work, I was able to catch up with a friend, relax, and have girl talk until the middle of the night. Thursday Caleb and I slept in, then headed to my Dad's for a yummy lunch! We, of course, had to snap a few photos before our bellies were overflowing ;)

My adorable great grandma!

My Dad!

We later went to my aunt and uncles which is where most of my family was...my uncle deep fried the turkey and O-M-G. This should be a necessity for Thanksgiving every year! SO GOOD! That night once everyone parted ways, we hit up a few stores since we had nothing else to do...no big ticket items were on our list so after a little browsing we went home!

Friday morning though, we hit up the stores we really wanted to go too. Got ourselves some blu-rays, some new running shoes (yay) and made a significant dent in our Christmas gift shopping! When we got home, we relaxed for a bit before a night out with our fav couple.

We were too pooped to do our Christmas decorations, so we waited until we woke up Saturday to do them...and it was so, so fun. Caleb put on the Frozen soundtrack and our surround sound was bumping all morning! Hope our neighbors didn't mind ;) instead of taking a bunch of pictures this year of our decorating process, I just sang my heart out and tried to enjoy the moment a little more. It was swell!

My brother and mom came over to watch the OSU game and we were lazy and ordered pizza. It's so great having my mom home!! I still can't get over it. That evening we threw a random game night at our place and had a blast for a couple hours with some of our best friends. Sunday was also super low key, although I'm pretty sure my heart skipped 17 beats when the Bengals game was on. However we pulled out a win! #WHODEY

Overall, I had an incredible 4 day weekend...but it seemed to go by faster than my usual 2 day weekend! How was your Thanksgiving weekend??

Here to save the world

...alright, not really. BUT, this weekend... we pretended we were ;)

See those cute little skeleton "trophies"?! The gold one that says "Best Couple" went to my soon to be SIL and BIL. Love them to pieces. I'll let their photo speak for itself... ;)

I mean, they make some pretty convincing pirates if you ask me ;)

This weekend we went to Caleb's cousins annual Halloween party! It was a blast, as usual. We had some games, dancing, eating too much, and plenty of laughter. Its a fun time, and they go ALL out on their decor. They do NOT mess around!

yes, that is a "rat" cheeseball... ha!

Chili dip with olive "spiders"

They also had lots of other decor I didn't think to snap.. chicken wire ghosts surrounded the house, decorated themed tables.. even a zombie head cut out photo op! So, we had a blast. What are you guys doing for Halloween?

Sorry for the short post, a very INTENSE Bengals vs. Steelers game is on.. and we are currently winning!!

OOHHHH TOUCHDOWN!!!!!!!!!!!

sorry guys, that just happened. Gotta run! HAPPY SUNDAY!