holidays.

i spent last week at home with my family.

it was such a short trip but very fun and so beautiful.

we left the NIGHT before it started dumping snow!! i'm so glad of it too. i don't do cold very well, but i do appreciate the beauty of it......

my dad said he kept shoveling all day yesterday.

it took TWELVE hours to drive from st george to san diego. it should have taken MAYBE nine. it was such a jokeeee. i'm happy to be back in sunny california. the weather has started to turn more fall-like. it has been about 55 degrees. today, my friend katie and i went and bought me a tree! it was the oddest thing, buying a christmas tree down in the city, just a few blocks from the beach. 

i came home and decorated it with this cutie-

he isss the sweetest. 

him and my lil cat kept me company while i strung the lights and added the ornaments.

look how cute. i got a tree for my bedroom a couple years ago. it was tiny. 

this tree i got is so big, i don't have quite enough ornaments to cover it! i'm excited to start collecting ornaments for jon and i over the years. i already got us two this year...they are so perfect and special. 

it's bitter sweet decorating without him... however, he deployed at a perfect time.

halloween, thanksgiving, christmas...etc. the holidays are such a happy time of year. its so nice to have things to look forward to and enjoy with my friends here and family back home. and i'm not mad about this deployment being 35% over....horrayyy..:)