Merry Christmas 2012!

Happy 2013! I can't believe 2012 is over! 2012 was a very memorable year... Getting married, moving to Stephenville, new job, and beginning a life with Rygh! We were very blessed in 2012!

Here's a little recap of our Christmas! My parents, brother, and grandpa came to Stephenville to celebrate Christmas at our house! It was really nice having everyone here. On Christmas Eve, we went to a Christmas Eve service at church and them had a tamale dinner! We opened one present on Christmas Eve....a little Alley family tradition.

We woke up Christmas morning to rain! It was a great Christmas present! We opened presents as breakfast was cooking in the oven! We got lots of great things! Rygh got clothes, tool box, axe, and other things! I got a beautiful necklace from my parents, food processor, kitchen tools, step stool, quilt from my mil,and lots of other great things! For breakfast, we had breakfast casserole, grapefruit, Nutella banana bread, and mimosas or poinsettias to drink!

We hung out at the house because it was super cold outside! We played with our puppies and talked! Christmas dinner was served around 2. We had smoked turkey, pork tenderloin, green beans, corn casserole, potatoes au gratin, popovers, and yummy green top! We topped dinner off with pumpkin pie and apple pie! Everyone went home in the evening and Rygh and I enjoyed a quiet evening at home! It was perfect! Hope everyone had a great Christmas and will have a happy 2013! Can't wait to see what this year holds!

Lyn

Poor diesel

Diesel had a rather traumatic evening. He came back to Rygh covered in blood. Rygh thinks he cut it on the barbed wire fence. Poor puppy!

Christmas decorating!

Rygh and I came back to Stephenville on Saturday after Thanksgiving. We came back early to begin decorating for Christmas! Within 5 minutes of getting in the door, we were opening the box for the Christmas tree and working on putting it together. I bought our tree online back in September when I saw a "good deal." Well, we set the tree up and it barely came to my forehead. The tree was supposedly 6.5 feet.. I looked at Rygh all disappointed and we decided we HAD to get another tree! So thirty minutes after we got home, we headed back out to get a new tree! We bought a 7.5 ft tree from ace! It's beautiful! Round 2... We set the tree up and the lights don't work. Disappointing face #2! We quit working on the tree figuring it just wasn't supposed to happen on Saturday! Don't worry...we got our tree up and I love it! I'm not even going to get into the outside icicle light story! Anyways, our farmhouse is all set for Christmas now!

Let's go to Luckenbach, Texas

Rygh and I headed to Kerrville this weekend to see my family. My uncle Pat and aunt Judi were in town. We went to luckenbach on Friday night to see the Chris Story Band. This is the same band that played at our wedding and they were great! I've never been to luckenbach but it was super cute and definitely fills up my little hope floats heart!


I made some Banana-Nutella bread today and its amazing! I substituted regular flour for gluten free all purpose flour. It's yummy and I definitely recommend it! Here's the recipe!

http://www.slenderkitchen.com/nutella-banana-bread/

My wedding bouquet

So my wedding bouquet has been hanging in my closet since we got back from our honeymoon. I was thinking I might do a shadow box or something. Months went by and my bouquet dried beautifully but still I didn't know what do to until I was scrolling through Pinterest and saw a great idea!

I cut the dried flowers and put them into a clear Christmas bulb. I filled the bulbs went my flowers and then made a bow out of the lace and burlap that held my bouquet together. I pinned the picture of my late grandma on one of the bulbs. I love how the bulbs turned out and love seeing my grandma's smiling face! I can't believe it's almost been a year since she has passed. I think about her everyday and miss her voice so much! Love my little BL.

Jeff and Emily tied the knot!

Rygh and I left Friday morning to go to Lubbock for the wedding of Rygh's good friend Jeff to Emily. Emily and Jeff got married at the super cool Windmill Museum in Lubbock. The museum shows the history of the progression of windmills. The museum had a huge mural of the history of the windmills. It was huge and beautiful!


The rehearsal dinner was at Cagle's Steakhouse. Jeff loves Tabasco sauce! They had a Tabasco bottle shaped cake! All the tables were decorated with different peppers and the gift was a little bitty Tabasco bottle! The food was great too! We had steaks!

The boys played golf Saturday morning and I went to a bridal breakfast for emily. Each guest at the breakfast brought a silver charm for Emily's charm bracelet! It was super cool to hear what each charm meant to Emily and the giver's relationship!

Finally, the wedding was Saturday night! They had a beautiful cotton rustic design! The boutonnières were made of a cotton ball and a pheasant feather. The girls carried lanterns...seeMatthew 25. Emily's mom made her dress out of white linen... See revelation. Everything about their wedding had symbolism. It was very cool! Here are a few pictures from our weekend! We had a great time! Hope everyone else had a great weekend!

Happy birthday to me!

Hubs surprised me with flowers at work and he even made me a GF chocolate cake that was yummy! Thanks Rygh for making today great and thank you everyone else for the birthday wishes!!