Just a Little Blue House

Happy New Year! I know these are Christmas pictures, but yeahhh, we’re definitely behind on blog posts and it’s catch-up time! So Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.

Early Christmas morning!

We had a wonderful first holiday season together and we’re looking forward to more. Christmas was a very different time for both of us I think. It was a little odd because before we were married of course we did what our families did, and now having our own family, we got to make our own Christmas! It is odd though! You just get so used to doing things one way and then its not there all the sudden. I’m not complaining or anything and Christmas was wonderful; simply reflecting back on that time makes me think about the switch that happened! We had a very fun and exciting first Christmas together with friends and family!

One of my favorite things we did was find our own Christmas tree! Austin is full of cedar trees which look close enough to Christmas trees if you ask me. Soooo we snuck out in the dark, found the perfect tree, cut ‘er down and dragged it home! Haha, really the tree was on our property so we didn’t have to go too far! We did get a strange look from a neighbor walking by though…. I really loved our tree. It was very home-y and with Kellan’s excellent pruning skills, he shaped it too look just right! Since we’re living in just a couple of rooms in the house right now, we set the tree up just a few feet away from our bed and I really liked laying in bed at night and looking at the lights! I wouldn’t mind cutting down another cedar next year to be honest! We were joking though that next year we should find one of the pre-decorated ones along the road… Austinites have a tradition of decorating random Christmas trees with balls and ribbons along certain roads, and I love seeing them every year!

Cedar trees get a facelift

So that was some of our first Christmas together! We didn’t have an angel or star to put on top of the Christmas tree so we put a stuffed animal up there Kellan gave me a while back, I think its cute, untraditional, but cute! And of course, here is our complete family picture with our nutter of a cat.

Us with Oso

We’ll be updating more very shortly, so look for things like “bear-hugging the waterheater up to the attic” and “who is the better solder-er in the vincent household???” and “LBC” (hint: we say LBH to shorten saying Little Blue House) and maybe a “virtual” tour of the house soon! Thanks for reading, hope you all have a wonderful 2011 (WHOOP!).