Weekend of celebration

As you can see from my last two posts, we have a lot of celebrating to do this time each year. Thank you for all of your sweet birthday and anniversary wishes. We have had a very fun weekend!

For Chad's birthday, we celebrated at home with one of his favorite dinners (spaghetti pie) and homemade apple cobbler with vanilla ice cream. Yum! Then Friday evening we went out to a new favorite restaurant for an incredible dinner.

Me and my handsome date. I'm a lucky girl ;-)

Chad surprised me with a gorgeous watch. I love it! We both had the same idea with the traditional 11 year gift being steel. That turned into stainless steel watches for both of us and a new wedding band for Chad. I have wanted to get him one for a while but he was pretty attached to the old one. I wasn't sure how this was going to go over but he loves the new one and it fits perfectly! Yay!

We ended the weekend with our youth Christmas party, which was an ugly sweater party. Chad and I hit up the thrift stores to look for a winner. I found several options...

 But in the end I went with #3 and uglied it up a little more with some gold glitter puff paint.

 I also threw on a few red ribbons, a jingle bell necklace (of course) and there ya go! The funniest part about Chad's was his green turtleneck had a little snowman embroidered on it. So ugly! We didn't win, but we sure gave it our best shot. =)

I hope y'all had a great weekend too! I'll see you back on Wednesday for the Christmas Card Carousel. I can't wait!!