Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree!!!!

Ok. By now you're probably thinking I've got Christmas spirit shooting out of my ass, but I promise this will be the last holiday related post of the season week.

So this year when we moved all our worldly possessions we were smart enough to keep our Christmas tree near the front of our ginormous storage unit. We were not, however, smart enough to also place the two totes full of Christmas decor, including all the ornaments, near the front as well. I took this as a sign our tree needed a new theme.

Now as a child we did not have themed trees. It was your typical all-American hodge podge of all the ornaments we had collected over the years. When I finally left the nest and got my own tree I didn't have enough things to fill it, so the first themed tree was born. A beautiful collection of red and gold ornaments. This motif stayed through 2 trees and 4 Christmases. It really was time to bid it a fond farewell.

This year I present to you my Winter Wonderland tree, courtesy of the Target holiday dept. It turned out great!! A mix of silver, icy blue and white snowflakes.....I'm in tree heaven! And if you look closely you'll see our Bride and Groom, First Christmas Together ornament courtesy of my mother-in-law!

Do you love my cheesy paint effort at trying to make it say "The EyeCanSee's." Haha.

Merry Christmas!!

It's beginning to smell alot like Christmas

Yep. You read that right. I love the smells of Christmas. This year I seem to have found a magical concoction that even the neighbors are raving about. Oh the perks of living in a condo building...not only can you hear everything, apparently even smells make it out into the hallway. So what is the wonderful combo I've created? One part Frosted Cranberry. One part Fresh Balsam. And one part Twisted Peppermint. All courtesy of White Barn Candle Company. We may not have a real tree, but darn it, it smells like one!

Coming soon to a mailbox near you!

The Christmas cards are in!! Hubby picked the green, I picked the red. It seems funny using wedding pictures as we approach our 1 year anniversary, but this is technically our first Christmas as Mr. and Mrs. and a lot of our friends and family who didn't make it haven't seen them. Plus it saved the trouble of taking a new one or trying to find one where I didn't look goofy and the hubs eyes were open.

I also wanted to share our cards from holidays past...but stupid Kodak Gallery won't let me open them to a size bigger than a postage stamp, so you'll just have to imagine how glorious they were! In all my searches though I did find something even better. Our first family photo. Circa 2007
Apparently we were too busy making sure we looked good, we didn't notice Kasey trying to make a run for it and Moose being....well, Moose.

Q&A Part Deux

SG asked what my 3 biggest pet peeves are.

1. People who don't use their turn signals. It's not an optional accessory people...USE IT!

2. People who sing the wrong words to songs or mumble through the parts they don't know. I have a weird knack of picking up and remembering song lyrics pretty easily so this drives me bonkers.

3. This one is kinda new since I've been subbing in different offices all the time. I can't stand when people act aggravated when you ask a question or don't know how to work something. Ummm, hello, I've been here like 5 minutes. Kill me.

Brittany Ann asked if I could only choose one meal to eat for the rest of my life, what would it be and would I share it with my hubby.

This is a tough one since my food cravings come and go, but if I had to pick today..I'd choose Chipotle. I am ashamed proud to admit I ate it two days in a row this week. And since I would be eating it everyday....for the rest of my life, I could probably share a bite or two with the hubs.

Christin asked what my favorite Wedding Day memory was.

Another tough one...there were so many!! But I'm going to have to say the moment I walked down the aisle and say my soon to be husband for the first time. We chose not to do any pictures before hand so this moment was extra special. I had been sequestered in the back room of the church and the nervous butterflies were fluttering. As soon as it was time to go, all of it melted away. I didn't hear the song I so pain stakingly picked. I didn't see all my friends and family. All I saw was my groom. I felt like it was just the two of us. I couldn't stop smiling. It was truly amazing.

ae asked what my dream vacation would be if time and money were of no concern.

Now this one is easy!! Europe! First I'd hit England, Ireland and London. Then I'd cruise the Greek Isles.

Crazy Shenanigans asked what TV show I would want to be on and why.

How I Met your Mother. No question. This has become one of my favorite shows! I want to be friends with all these totally awesome people....even if writers are behind it all.

Rosalyn Kay asked if I could spend $1000 on something only to pamper myself, what would it be?

I've always wanted to go to one of those fancy shmancy spa resorts. A weekend of massages, facials, mud baths and champagne. Sign me up!

Jane asked if I had to live somewhere else, where would it be.

The Florida Keys. Not Key West, but one of the more remote ones. It's all the comforts of the US with a Caribbean "Hey Mon" mentality. I heart the keys.

Thanks everyone for all your great questions!! Hopefully you learned a little something more about me!

Hello...my name is Mrs. EyeCanSee

Remember me??

I apparently decided to take an unintentional Blogcation.

Oops!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Ohio with my in laws.

Ate lots of turkey....and pie.

Even scored some Black Friday deals at Old Navy. I swear everything in there was $15!!

Hung out with some friends.

And survived 4 nights in a full sized bed.

Talk about husband and wife togetherness...haha!

I didn't take my camera. So there are no pictures to share.

My bad.

But rest assured we had a great time!

Now...to pick up where I left off, I'm going to finally answer some of those questions you've been dying to know about me.

1. Mayra and Nifer asked where our saying, "The Juice is Worth the Squeeze" came from.

I looked back through all our old emails to try and find it's first appearance, but couldn't. Some where, early on in our relationship I was being impatient about one thing or the other and my hubby wrote me an email where he wrote that...basically saying it will all be worth it in the end. He stole it from the movie "The Girl Next Door," you know, that one about the girl who's a porn star, very romantic I know. Ha! If you look to the right of my blog, just under the heading, you can read the whole revised speech where it came from in the movie. (I paraphrased some of it to be more fitting in our situation...ya know, since I'm not a porn star :)

2. Lindsay asked, If on a deserted island, what 3 drinks, 3 movies and 3 books would you want with you.

Drinks: Diet Dr Pepper

Boulevard Wheat

A good Mojito

Movies: Mean Girls

The Hangover

Gone with the Wind (cause maybe then I'd actually watch the whole thing)

Books: Harry Potter

The Poison Wood Bible

Pride and Prejudice (cause maybe then I'd actually read it)

3. KLaw asked which 3 celebrities are on my "laminated list"

I actually did a post on this, check here if you want the whole thing! My top three would probably be:

Brad Pitt (pre-Angelina)

Gerard Butler

Bradley Cooper

More Q&A tomorrow!

Getting to know me...getting to know all about me

For awhile the Blog Q&A was one of my favorite things!

Lately I've noticed it's gone to the wayside so I'm going to bring it back!

So this is your chance to ask that question about me you've been dying to know.

Whether it's my favorite color or what's the deal with moving to KC.

Ask away!

Get creative!

The night I said YES!

So a few of you asked to see my wedding rings...and what girl doesn't want to show off the bling?! I thought now was as good a time as any to share with you how my hubby proposed.

It all started in December of 2007. We were headed to Omaha for the holidays and I begged and pleaded casually mentioned that we should stop by Bergman's, the "family" jewelry store. You see my Great Grandfather was a jeweler, after he retired no one carried on the family biz and it was sold to the Bergman's. Ever since they're the only people we work with and trust our family stones to...call us paranoid but I've seen CNN and those shady jewelry store diamond switchers. Any hoo, since we don't make it to Omaha more than once a year, the hubs agrees we can go and pick out my ring look. We already knew we were using a family stone, my moms original from her engagement ring, so the hard work of toiling over the 5 C's was done, now I just needed to find the perfect setting. I narrowed it down to two and figured when the day came, I'd let hubby make the final choice. A girl has to have SOME surprise after all.

Now here comes the hard part that no one tells you about. When you have the luxury of helping pick out your ring you know it's coming. You don't know when. You don't know how. It's torture. To make matters worse, we went ahead and set a date and booked the church and reception site sans ring. Yes...we were that couple. The wedding was inevitable so you could say I jumped the gun a bit. I had to do something to get my mind off that ring. Every time I mentioned it after we went and looked I was told that added one more week on to when I would get it. At one point he said I'd be lucky to get it before walking down the aisle. Ha.Ha. Who knew my husband got joy out of this cruel punishment. Little did I know he had been planning all along.

Fast forward to Feb 2007. My brother and sister in law were coming for a visit. This trip had been planned for months...way before there was any mention of rings so I didn't really think much of it. Don't get me wrong there was a brief glimmer of hope my ring may arrive, but my parents were coming a month later for Easter which also happened to be our 1 year dating anniversary so I was kind of counting on that weekend. Either way, someone had to be bringing it because the ring was in Omaha and my naked finger was in Columbus.

So my brother and SIL arrive for the weekend. They have plans with some of her friends Friday night so the hubs suggest we go to dinner on our own. Ok. No biggie. We go to dinner all the time. As everyone is getting ready that night I develop a nasty stomach ache and tell my husband we should skip dinner and just get a pizza. It was gross and snowing outside anyways. Let's just stay in. He's very persistent we go, so I oblige and finish beautifying myself. As I'm getting ready to get my coat he says there's one more thing he needs to do at which point he gets down on one knee and asks me to be his wife. Of course I said YES!!

In our new engaged glory we began walking to The Elevator, the same restaurant where we had our first date. It no longer seemed to matter it was snowing and freezing cold and my stomach ache had miraculously disappeared. Diamonds are a powerful cure! When we got there, no one was at the hostess stand and the hubs was unusually impatient. I could have cared less how long we waited! When she finally came to seat us I noticed she didn't grab any menus, oh well, who needs food when you have diamonds! Haha. As we approached the table I saw my husbands family sitting on one end....then my brother and sister in law (those liars!)....then my parents!! I was definitely shocked to see them all the way in from Kansas City. Hubs did good! It was a perfect night and totally worth the wait...or the squeeze as we like to say!

Here's the whole set. My wedding band is engraved "The juice is," hubby's says "worth the squeeze." One day we'd like to add a second band to the other side of my ring. Maybe for that first baby?? Who knows!