I LOVE Christmas!

I love everything about Christmas: the music, the lights, the decorations, wrapping presents, COOKIES, and the good moods and kindness that comes in December!  I even like the snow, for the most part...although I would be okay if it left as soon as Christmas was over... :)

We don't have a lot of space to work with in our apartment but here are some pictures of our the decorating that took place this weekend!

Our little tree for our little apartment!

Top of the bookshelf

Table next to our couch.  The table runner on the table was made by my Godmother, you cannot see it very well in this picture but it is really pretty!

The kitchen table.  Ben's family did Christmas early and I received this from his parents.  

How can Christmas NOT make you happy?????!!!!!

Date Ideas - Nerd Date

Last Spring the MN Science Museum had a pirate exhibit.  Ben, with his ship fascination, really wanted to go check out the pirates.  We went to the museum and when exploring our options we decided to buy a year membership as it would pay for itself if we visited the museum only one more time (I attached a link to the membership info here).  That night we went through the pirate exhibit, since that took two hours we didn't have time to check out the regular/permanent exhibits.  

Yesterday, Ben and I have a free Saturday (these are extremely hard to come by) so we decided to go explore the permanent exhibits and the omnitheater show.  My favorite part was the omnitheater presentation: Tornado Alley.  We spent two hours at the museum and watched the movie and only went through about 50% of the permanent exhibits.  It was so much fun going through the museum and playing with all the exhibits, checking out the dinosaurs, and learning about the Mississippi river.  Needless to say we will need to go back to see the rest!  I would also like to go back in January since the BodyWorld will be the special exhibit.