Christmas Crafts

I haven't shared the recent sewing/crafting projects that I have been working on lately, and I actually made a few Christmas presents this year. I forgot to get pictures of all of them (since a couple were pretty last minute), but here's a list of most of them!

I made my bro-in-laws each a case for their ipads using fabric representing their favorite teams. In case you were wondering, yes, the A&M fabric was very difficult to sew with; in fact, my hands are still a little rashy from the endeavor ;)

 For 2 of the little girls in my life (Lucy and Halle) I made Christmas tree shirts/onesies. I was actually going to make shirts for my nieces, but ran out of time :( maybe next year.

Garrett got the boy version of the Christmas tree onesie, and I'm so glad his mom was sweet enough to send me a picture of him wearing it! Ok, let's be serious, is he a heart-breaker or what??

 Thanks to pinterest, I found a really easy and cute tutorial for making holiday themed coasters. I was really happy with how they turned out, and still need to make myself a set!

One Friday afternoon before Christmas, my manager had a "team building" exercise upstairs in the ob/gyn office where we all made wreaths out of real christmas tree branches. I liked mine a lot, plus it smelled great, so I hung it in my kitchen and put some ornaments on it.

Man, looking at all this makes me sad that the season is over.  Hopefully my skills will improve over the next year, and I can make even more (and better) presents for next Christmas!

Griffin's Wedding

A few weeks ago, my cousin Griffin got married! She is from Temple, and decided to get married in the chapel that her parents were married in about 20 years ago in Salado. That worked great for us since its only an hour from Austin. Its always fun when all the Verheydens get together for a party :).  The wedding was small and really nice, and she was completely gorgeous. Her dress was amazing. I don't know her now-husband very well since she spent the last year-ish of college in Italy studying abroad and he is in the army. My Aunt and Uncle have told me lots of good things about him and I know he loves the Lord and loves Griffin, so it sounds like a good match!

Christmas!

Man I have some catching up to do! Since I last posted, I have done some fun crafting projects, spent a week in Dallas for the holidays, and a Verheyden cousin got married. So that stuff is coming later this week, for now, here's a run-down of the week we spent in Dallas.


I just love having a job with normal hours because that means its easy to take vacation at Christmas! We went to Dallas for a whole entire week and it was fabulous.
When we first got there, mom and dad had this set up for present wrapping :)

Later that day, my Grandma came to visit and we spent the day working a puzzle with my mom.
Sunday we went to church up north and spent the day with Michael's family. We met part of the family at a restaurant after church to watch the Texans game.

Unfortunately, they didn't win :(. Then we spent the rest of the day hanging out at his sister Lisa's house and cuddling with our precious new niece Elizabeth!

Ryan with his newly adopted dog Oreo!

We spent the night at Lisa's house so I could help with some middle of the night feedings for Elizabeth, then went back to my parents house for Christmas Eve. John brought Hannah and Jacob over and my brothers and sister were all in town at that point.

We went to the Christmas Eve service and I found Brooke!!

all the sibs :)

Christmas day I forgot to get pictures of present-opening, but we got all kinds of great stuff from both families. Lots of great games that we spent the rest of the week learning and playing! But, I did get pictures of the great surprise of snow on Christmas day!! So fun!

Christmas day evening, we braved the snow/sleet and had dinner and more presents with Michael's family.

Michael and Braeden trying out Braeden's new boxing gloves

The rest of the week was spent going back and forth between our 2 families and just enjoying being in Dallas! We did get to go to the Armed Forces Bowl on Saturday before we left thanks to Josh's hook-up in the air force. It was a cold day, but pretty fun to watch the game. 

What a great week! I'm so thankful that we had so much time to spend up there with family. I can't believe that it's already 2013, here's to another great year!