winter break at it's finest

senior year winter break has been a hit!

below is my lovely friend jennifer,

who realized that the table at caribou doubles as a checkerboard..

(something i would have never noticed)

& when she did we promptly played for probably an hour.

jesse & i had a movie night since i had never seen the first

Sherlock Holmes

(maybe i'll just come out & say i slept through it the first time)

anyway what's a movie night without gobs of candy?

jesse tried being a ninja but it failed & he lost half of his sprees.

it was a good one!

(i liked the second one better though, i mean, no sliced pigs...)

then i raced jesse out to alterra before they closed.

he had never been there!

 gotta love the coffee art.

here's a cutie shot of maggie on christmas when we all went to visit jesse at work.

(ew who works on christmas...)

^this is when carolyn & i went ice skating!

kinda felt like a loser because she's fabulous at skating but oh well : )

xoxoxo!

p.s. this post definitely contains all three local coffee shops. addicted?

jesse & julia's christmas celebration

So this year, Jesse & i planned a day of things to do along with gifts

so that we'd have something to look forward to after christmas.

Our day was jam-packed with fun!

we started off with bingo!

we went with his mom & mom's friend beth,

who so generously treated us. 

I haven't seen her in ages so she says it was a birthday gift.

i think she was just being nice. : )

ANYWAY

here are some pictures that went along with that:

jesse's favorite camera face...?

After that we had burgers with his mom & beth, & raced to catch the "jingle bus"

 advertised jingle bus: a fun bus that is supposed to take you around milwaukee & show you all the 

pretty christmas lights.

reality jingle bus: a weird bus that takes you around and shows you 3 sets of lights, &

for the rest of the 40 minutes shows you all the restaurants & bars, & tells you 

some of milwaukee's history.

my perspective of the tour:

jesse's perspective of the tour:

(ok not really) ; )

i did manage to get a few good pictures though!

jesse's award-winning shot of the night:

then he gave me these!!!

ah!!! i love them!!! & him!

 then we went ice skating...

i had to drag him at first but then he got the hang of it : )

after that we went out to get some pizza shuttle

where jesse managed to get lost,

fail at parallel parking, 

scrape another car,

& almost go the wrong way down a one way street.

oh well! at least the pizza was tasty.

 what a great day it was!

merry christmas!

christmas time!

Christmas might be my favorite time of year.

& that's a recent decision because i usually can't make up my mind, 

because i really like all times of the year.

(except summer... too hot!)

anyway

this christmas we only had a couple people over (like usual actually)

& it ended up being really fun.

some of my favorite gifts were...

the boots on the left are the ones i've been waaaaiting for! i love them!

the dress on the right is from the ever so lovely carolyn duff. she knows me so well!

next, from my two sisters, i got this really cute dress & my favorite shampoo!

thank you so much!!

then from my friend russ...

pretty much made my life (oh & there was a 4th bag but i kinda ate it).

below are two gifts from jesse's mom. 

I LOVE THEM!

(ok, you caught me, the purse isn't real, but who really cares. not this girl)

yeah so this gift was for maggie, but i love it so much i had to include it.

it's soooo sweet!!

hope you all had a very merry christmas :)

xo

#1

first one!

other holiday festivities

seeing as how Christmas is in less than a week, 

my family decided to finally buy a tree.

we had some bad experiences with pre-cut trees last year (see below)

so we cut our own down this year.

 the decision between this one & the one we got was rather difficult.

go! dad! go! go! dad!

the grand march to purchase the fresh-cut beauty.

 which a day later FELL OVER without anyone touching it.

strange.

today was also the last day of school so it's officially

WINTER BREAK!

♥

candy cane lane

on monday, jesse took me to see candy cane lane!

we tried walking and made it in a small circle & promptly started driving around.

 ^my favorite house....

"i always knew reindeer didn't pull santa's sleigh..."

of course we finished with krispy kreme i mean what else would we do....?

xoxo

so one time

so one time i was on stumble upon way too late at night...

 & i found this sweet website.

& i fell in love.

enjoy.

I don't Mean to be Creepy....

Hi! It's Maggie and it is also my first blog post...

I am creeping on my sister's account!

Anyway, I decided to post this slightly embarrassing video of my dear sister!

As it may be embarrassing, it is quite enjoyable and I think she will laugh...So it's ok!

Have a great day

I know you will

Because

this

video

rocks

last week.

so basically my sister makes sweet (haha) christmas cookies.

 the best cookie: HO³

 i also went here:

with him:

to see this:

he didn't make it until the first half was almost over but that's ok.

i had my dad! : )

(hi dad!)

hope you all are having a great weekend. 

it's almost Christmas!

yikes!