Craft-aholic

I think this is Ben's favorite that I have made :)

Got the idea for this here.

Can't get enough of my Silhouette!!!

Valentine's Day

For Valentine's Day Ben and I kept it REALLY simple.  He had planned on surprising me with tickets to see The Lion King (we go this Thursday!!!) but I ruined the surprise when he saw me looking at tickets and was afraid I would find a good deal and just buy them.  He really shouldn't have worried though because I never buy anything without running it by him and I NEVER find good deals...  My gift to him was a promise to make more home cooked meals.  We eat at home most nights but our dinners often consist of spaghetti, mac & cheese, grilled cheese, etc.

On Valentine's Ben studied all day and I went to work all day so by 6 that evening we were pooped.  We hopped in the car and drove to pick up our fancy dinner :)  (Note: I had onion rings but they didn't make it through the car ride home.)

Crafting with my silhouette!

December, January, and February have been awesome!  I've made lots of crafts and I am having tons of fun with my new Silhouette CAMEO.  Here's some of the crafts I have been making!!

One of my favorite quotes!

I got the temple picture from here.

Paige found these conversation blocks here and we copied!

I like my conversation blocks so much that I decided I needed to make some for every holiday!

I've had several "crafting" days with friends but this is the only one I remembered to take a pic of!

January

 Ben had his birthday in the beginning of the month.  His birthday was on a Friday but I was sick so we celebrated it on Saturday.

He put on his new Hawaiian shirt from my mom.

To celebrate we went to dinner with the Tracy's.

After dinner the Rainey's joined us and we played games.

After games we had a brownie trifle.  Ben was getting sick at this point (not such a great birthday
present from me) so we didn't let him get too close to the trifle.  

At the end of January we went on an awesome date we found through living social.  They had a coupon for comedy sportz.  It was an improv show where 2 teams are competing to be the funniest.  We loved it!

Christmas/Yellowstone with the Brockbanks

This was a Brockbank Christmas year so we headed to Utah for 2 weeks.  Traditions...the Brockbank's are all about traditions.  If you try to leave any out...like cinnamon pull-aparts you will not hear the end of it.  Just ask Ben's mom :)

We went to see Santa...Santa didn't want Ben to sit on his lap so I had to. 

       We went to see the Christmas lights and nativity on Temple Square.

We acted out the story of Christ's birth on Christmas Eve.

On Christmas we went to church, called Brandon, opened presents, and went to Grandma Prince's house for lunch.

Ben and I felt pretty dang lucky.  Ben's parents flew us out to Utah, spoiled us with clothes, games, candy, hair clippers, etc.

A couple days after Christmas we headed to Yellowstone.  We were worried there would be no snow but as you can see there was no need to wrorry!

Out to lunch at a Pizza Place

We stayed at a place called Three Bear Lodge and ate at this restaurant that had 3 bears several times. A picture with the bears was a must :)

Early Christmas and Birthday

My mom sent presents early to Virginia so we had an early Christmas/birthday opening party!

My gifts from my mom were pearl earrings, a new ornament and a gift card to use for crafts! It was very appropriate because for my birthday Ben and his parents got me a Silhouette Cameo. Let the crafting begin!!!


Ben got a new Hawaiian shirt! I still need him to model it for me.
He also got a gift card and from me he got a new game :)

Thanksgiving in Williamsburg

Ben's parents helped us rent a condo for Thanksgiving and we were able to invite some friends along. Ben and I weren't exactly excited about cooking a Thanksgiving meal so we invited the right families! The Vanhille's and Johnston's came up the whole weekend and the Hinrich's came up on Thanksgiving with us.

Highlights of the trip were: Eating, hanging out with friends, Vanessa gave us cute aprons that she made, and shopping. The boys highlights would probably be: eating, eating, modeling the girl's cute aprons, and disc golfing.

Awful picture of me but it shows the cute aprons Vanessa made for us!

These guys are special...


The Vanhille's and Johnston's are responsible for the delicious meal and
decorations...I just did the dishes :) Lara and Vanessa put a lot of
thought and hard work into the meal and it paid off.


Vanessa made rolls with slips of paper in them that said what everyone was thankful for.

Everyone ready to dig in!

Getting ready for Black Friday shopping. Somehow we didn't get a picture of Matt but he was definitely involved in all the shopping. He may or may not have been more excited than his wife even :)


1:30 AM and ready for bed but excited about the deals we found.

The kids we got to spend the weekend with...minus Kara :/

We went to a park so the kids can play and shocker....so Ben could play frisbee golf and had a picnic.