Merry Christmas

I just wanted to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! 

This year is definitely a special one for our family! I cannot wait to share all of those details with you, but for now Merry Christmas and I hope you have unforgettable moments with loved ones! And don't forget the reason for the season! 

I LOVE Christmas decor!

I always love my house around the holidays. We basically have to rearrange our whole living room to accommodate our tree, but I love it! I also love good lighting, and I think Christmas lights really lend itself to that. We always turn all of our Christmas lights on in the evenings and we don't need our actual lights at all. It just makes the room more intimate. 

These pictures might be more for myself than for sharing so I know exactly where to put things the following year! ;)

Our entry way

A little thanksgiving and Christmas. I think Trevor grandfather made the snowman guy. 

Part of our kitchen. I love our undermounted lights. The paintings at the top were something Trevor and I did last year. I love them!

We have to have a little OSU mixed in!!

Our table. I just fell in love with these placemats a few years ago and I can't part with them! My grandpa made the candle holder in the center of the table. And at this point I'm surprised our poinsettias are still alive! 

Seriously love this moose!! He has camo pants on so I thought Trevor would approve. I was a little nervous what Winston would think and a little afraid he would attack it. It took a few days to warm up to the moose, but I think Winston has finally adjusted. 

I love our nativity seen! It's the reason for the season!

I love my Christmas tree and obviously the pups do too!

Our entertainment center. It serves as a "mantle" as well since we don't have one! 

I really need to come up with a new Christmas card system. The top of our refrigerator is overloaded! I have an idea, but no time to make one. It's on the agenda for next year. We are LOVING all the Christmas cards though! It makes getting the mail everyday really exciting!

I hope everyone has a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! 🎄🎁🙌🏻

Happy Birthday's

I'm a day late, but there were two Birthday's I wanted to give a shout out to on the blog!

First up: Sarah Schemmer

Sarah, I hope you had an amazing day yesterday!!! 

We got to celebrate with Sarah and friends last weekend when we went to Tallgrass Prairie Table for Brunch. 

Love these ladies!! There is never a dull moment with this group!

Second: WINSTON

My pup Winston turned 7 yesterday! He is seriously the sweetest puppy! Trevor would probably disagree, but this pup can do no wrong in my eyes!! Happy Birthday Winnie the poo!!

Lifegroup Christmas!!

We seriously have the BEST Lifegroup!! We have made friendships that will last a lifetime! We decided to have a Lifegroup Christmas party on December 5th and Trevor and I decided to host it at our house. I was a bit nervous for a few reasons...we have 12 people in our group and our table only accommodates 5! So we had to borrow a table from our neighbors and we ended up doing a boy table and a girl table. It may have turned out to be more fun that way! ;) Another reason I was nervous was because I wanted to have all our Christmas decor up before we had people over and Trevor and I only had about a 3 hour window to get everything done. Thankfully, we are getting faster at putting up Christmas decor and it only took a couple hours. Last reason I was nervous, we have been so busy we hadn't had a chance to really deep clean our house in awhile, so I knew we had some work ahead of us. But, everything turned out perfect! 

Everyone brought some food for dinner. We had turkey, mashed potatoes, cream corn, rolls, green beans, salad, a strawberry salad, and AMAZING desserts. Seriously, these girls can cook! And thank you to Trevor for smoking the turkey. 

After dinner we played dirty Santa. None of the gifts were too bad, and Trevor and I ended up with an ice scraper for our car (which we REALLY needed) and a Starbucks gift card! 

I ended up making everyone microwave bowl holders and sadly, I didn't take any pictures of them! But here is the fabric I used:  

I have also gotten several texts of everyone using their bowl holders! It makes my heart happy to know they are coming in use! 

Also, check out the awesome gift that a girl in our group made us all. 

She made the Morris sign at the top! Seriously added to our wall collage! If you like it and want a custom one for yourself, find Reagan Relics on Facebook or Instagram. ;)

After gifts, we played Battle of the Sexes! The girls started out just crushing the boys, but sadly they made a come back and beat us. I think we own them something, but I won't be reminding them of this! ;) 

These couples have seriously become some of our best friends! Each couple brings something special to group each week and Trevor and I have learned so much through you. Thank you for your love and support! We love doing life with you all!!

Always behind...

I can't believe I didn't blog once in the whole month of November. I am falling behind! Honestly, we didn't have too much happen, so this (again) will just be a random post! 

Halloween:

Yes, I'm blogging about October in December! To start off with a bang, Trevor wore a costume to work the Friday before...Captain 'Merica!

He actually did this all on his own! I was working on something else and next thing I know, I walk in the living room to this! Haha! 

That evening we had a gender reveal party to go to and a Halloween party. 

After work we headed to our friend's house for their gender reveal. They already have a sweet boy named Chase and we found out that they are having baby boy #2!!!

Such a sweet moment! Congratulations Chad and Reagan! 

We then headed to our 1st Halloween party at our friend's Brittney and Noah's house. We initially were just going to be what we were last year, Thunderbirds and Pink Ladies, but we decided last minute to try something new. We ordered these on amazon! Thankful for Amazon Prime and free 2-day shipping!

Wine and Cheese!!! What a perfect combination!

On Saturday I sang at church...

And then we headed to our friend's Kim and Kemp's Halloween party. We were definitely trying for best costume, but we fell short! We did however win a few of the games. Trevor won the dart contest...I did come in 2nd. And I won the "how many candy corns are in this jar" and I think Trevor came in 2nd!

OSU Football:

The weekend of November 7th my brother and some of his friends flew to Tulsa for the OSU vs TCU game. Trevor and I decided that we were going to go to Stillwater to hang out with them Friday and Saturday. On Friday we drove to Stillwater and ate at my favorite restaurant, Nygoya. Then we headed to the Strip to meet up with Wes and his friends. The next day we went shopping!!! You can't go to Stillwater and not get some new OSU gear! We actually spent so much on our little shopping spree that we decided to not buy tickets to the game. We were just going to tailgate and then watch the game at the new restaurant called The Garage. 

Friendsgiving:

Every year our group of friends from college get together for a Friendsgiving! The food is always amazing and the company is even better! There is never a dull moment with this group and the evening is always filled with laughter! Thank you to each and every one of you for always making life interesting! Love you all!

More Football:

On November 14th OSU played Iowa State and after the game I got this message on my phone! 

Still perfect! 10-🍊!

Engagement:

That evening my brother and his girlfriend were going to a work event for Katy's work. I think it was the Marine Corps Ball, and my brother made the evening even more special by popping the question!!

CONGRATUALTIONS WES AND KATY!!! I'm so excited to gain a sister!!! What an exciting day!!!!

Rustic Cuff:

On November 17th I was leading at church and the coolest thing ever happened to me. A parent of a student I have in class came up to me and handed me this beautiful Rustic Cuff bracelet and said "thank you for being the Light here at church and at school everyday for my daughter". 

Wow! Seriously, brought tears to my eyes! It says "with God nothing is impossible". What an amazing compliment and I owe it all to Him! 🙌🏻🙏🏻✨

Lip-Sync Battle:

The Tuesday before thanksgiving break we had a lip-sync battle at school. I was the drummer from Kansas! I'd say we were a success...meaning, we made students laugh! So we accomplished our goal!

Thanksgiving:

I didn't get a single picture from Thanksgiving week, but we decided to go to Kansas to visit my grandma and grandpa. It was really nice just having a few days of relaxation and good company! And delicious food!! I always love going to the farm. We even got a bit of snow and ice!

Christmas:

On Saturday morning we got up early and got all of our Christmas decor out. We must be getting faster at putting things up because it only took us a couple hours!

I will do another post of all the decor around the house! I absolutely LOVE decorating for Christmas!!

Christmas Gifts:

It's back to a crafty month! I always like making things for people around the holidays, so I've been a busy bee! 

Key chains and much, much more!!!

I'll try not to wait so long between posts!

The Weekend...

It seriously is crazy how quickly time flies! The weekend is over in just a blink and honestly, most weeks seem to pass just as quick! So, here was our latest busy/fun filled weekend!

This past week was Tulsa's Oktoberfest. Trevor and I have made it a habit to go at least once every year. Normally we would go on Wednesday because it is corporate night and Trevor got tickets through his work, but his job now doesn't do that. So we went on Thursday and met up with some friends that we hadn't seen in awhile. 

Such a fun group. Trevor and I got home wayyyy too late and then we stayed up talking for a few hours after that...I'm surprised my alarm woke me up the next morning. But I'm glad it did, because I have never been late to work!

On Friday we both went to work and then came home and caught up on our shows. Modern Family, Chicago PD, Nashville, etc. That night we had tickets to see Josh Abbott Band at Cain's ballroom. We made tacos at home and then headed downtown. We made a pit stop at Inner Circle to play corn hole and then headed to Cain's to see the concert. We were both actually really impressed with the opening act. Her name is Carly Pierce. I ended up buying her EP while we were there so we could listen to it on our drive the next day. 

We had initially planned to go to OSU's homecoming walk arounds, but Josh Abbott Band is Trevor's favorite band, so I told him I would take him to the concert instead. 

On Saturday morning we woke up, got packed and hit the road for Paris, TX. A friend of ours was getting married there that evening. We got to town pretty early, which was nice because we had a lot of friends in town that we wanted to see. So we went and hung out at Chilies for a bit and watched the OSU game before we went and got ready for the wedding. It was a beautiful wedding and the company was even better!

Congrats Price and Ava Ashley!

The next day we had to explore Paris a little before heading home, so we went to breakfast and then to the Eiffel Tower!

Sadly, we were a little disappointed in the size of the Paris, TX Eiffel Tower. 

We then headed home to see our pups and do loads of laundry!! We love getting to see so many friends in a weekend and get to have quality time with each other. Definitely a great weekend for the books!

Free Spirits

This past week has truly been so much fun! Since I was on fall break Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Trevor decided to take off on Thursday and Friday so we would have a little vacation. Initially we had planned to go somewhere; we had talked about Kansas City, Branson or Dallas, but when push came to shove, we decided to have a staycation. We wanted to do all things around Tulsa that we hadn't done before. We made a list of a few items we wanted to check off our list, but really, the whole week just kind of ended up being spur of the moment decisions. 

On Thursday morning we both slept in (my favorite) and then got up and ready for the day. The only thing on our agenda was to borrow our friends' Vespa and go explore Tulsa. We decided to eat lunch at Blue Rose on Riverside and then ride the Vespa around downtown. 

The Vespa only goes about 30 miles per hour, so the downtown speed limit was more our style. We literally just rode all around downtown, near Hodges Bend, by OneOK and all over the OSU Tulsa campus. We had never driven through TU before, so we drove over there and explored the TU campus. We even stopped in to see some friends that live over there, but they weren't home. We ended up driving to Cherry Street and stopping at The Pint. While we were hanging out there I might have mentioned that I was having a great time and that a motorcycle would be so much fun. That's when Trevor said "should we be free spirits today?" and I knew we would probably end up with a motorcycle by the end of the day! The last time Trevor said "should we just be free spirits today?" was the day that we sold my Jeep and bought the Honda Pilot, which we had not planned for at all! Basically, when Trevor takes off a day of work, we get ourselves into trouble! ;) 

We left The Pint and still wanted to keep driving around, so we went and explored the neighborhoods near Lewis/Harvard. The huge oil money houses. There was only one huge hill that I thought we weren't going to make it up, but we survived. 

Trevor was serious about this motorcycle comment, so after we had our fun filled day of the Vespa, we put it in the back of the truck and headed to a couple motorcycle places. To make a long story short, we ended up back at the first place we started purchasing the first bike that Trevor said he wanted! I was literally running to the bank at 5:00 on the dot to get cash out! Somehow we made the purchase and got some helmets to top it off!

It didn't really sink in until we were purchasing helmets. Holy moly, we just bought a motorcycle! 

My helmet won't be in for a few days, so I just borrowed the helmet that we were using on the Vespa. 

On our drive home we were passing right by my parents house, so we stopped in to say hello before heading home. 

When we got home it was time to meet up with our friends because we were having a pumpkin carving night. I hadn't taken a ride on the motorcycle yet, so we decided to drive the motorcycle to our friends house and forgo carving pumpkins since we had no one to transport them. When we left there we drove out to Coweta to show Trevor's mom and stepdad since we hadn't told them we purchased it yet. It was beautiful weather, so we were all about driving everywhere!

Since we were having a staycation, we decided to build a fort in our living room and camp out! Now, this is my kind of camping! 

We had quite a few shows to catch up on, so we watched Nashville, Chicago Fire and Modern Family. I think the dogs enjoyed "camping" with us! 

On Friday we got up, made some cinnamon rolls, watched Chicago PD (I realize these are all my kind of shows...Trevor is just nice enough to watch them with me. I think he slightly enjoys them all as well) and relaxed a bit in the morning. We were excited for more adventures on the motorcycle, so we got out and ran a few errands and then we had a couples massage appointment at Red Canyon at 11:30. We had never been there before and I really liked it. I've had quite a few massages in my day and this one was at the top of my list. Trevor then surprised me by going to Rustic Cuff and purchasing my choice of bracelet...I should let him buy motorcycles more often! ;) 

We then headed home to get ready for our next adventure. We took the pups on a picnic. I honestly don't really know where we went. Trevor knew of a little spot because that is where him and his dad put their boat in to go duck hunting. We got some wine and cheese to eat and just hung out. I'm pretty sure the dogs thought they were in cheese heaven!!! 

It was fun to just relax, listen to music and enjoy each other's company. 

We then headed home and got ready for a delicious dinner at Molly's Landing. It was pretty chilly outside but we decided to brave the weather and we took the motorcycle. We are just having so much fun! It was pretty cold, but luckily we have these super warm jackets that a friend gave us! Thanks John! 

Our dinner was so delicious! If you have not tried Molly's Landing, you should go! Trevor and I had a super cool thing happen to us. Someone surprised us and paid for our dinner! Our waiter eventually told us it was the family sitting next to us, but we didn't know them at all and they were gone by the time the waiter spilled the beans. Seriously, how cool it is to be on the receiving end of that! We were just overwhelmed by their generosity! 

I wasn't planning to tell anyone, or post it on the blog, but I just thought it was a neat opportunity to share. A couple weeks ago the sermon at church was about generosity. The guest speaker at church told a story about how he keeps $100 bills in his wallet and when he feels that God is prompting him to give, he will give it to someone. Trevor had just been paid $100 from his dad that morning for helping his dad move hay around on his land, so Trevor thought it would be cool to try this out. We were at Andolinis and decided to pay for the couples dinner next to us and then give our waiter the rest of the $100. We also left him a couple invite cards to LifeChurch and he said he was going try it out. What a cool way to bring people to know Christ! I don't want to share that story for the reason of us giving, but I definitely think this was a God thing. We were blessed because we were a blessing. I do not think this was a coincidence. If you want to be used by God, if you ask him for that, he will find a way to use you. A couple verses came to mind when this happened. 

Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything. The generous will prosper; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed. Proverbs 11:24-25. 

You must each decide in your heart how much to give. And don't give reluctantly or in response to pressure. For "God loves a person who gives cheerfully." And God will generously provide all you need. Then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with other. 2 Corinthians 9:7-8

Obviously we did not give to "become more wealthy" but because we want to honor God in this way of being generous. And what a cool thing to be a part of. It is  a really neat feeling being on the receiving end of such a gift, but it truly made my day to be on the giving side. Anyway, we left Molly's Landing with an extra skip in our step because of this neat experience! We are so excited to start this whole "pay it forward" thing again!

We had good intentions of getting in the hot tub when we got home, but I was so tired, and full, that once we sat on the couch, I just passed out. We re-made our fort, Trevor watched a movie and it was lights out for me! 

I was happy to have my house looking normal again today! 

Today we went and got breakfast, we were going to make waffles, but we didn't have all of the ingredients. Then Trevor headed off to help a friend move and I practiced for church most of the afternoon...and cleaned! Seriously, this was the most perfect fall break!