It's the most wonderful time of the year!

I think the time from Thanksgiving to New Years is magical. It helps, in our house, that I married a Christmas junkie. Even with the knowledge that we'll be in Oregon for the last two weeks of December (yay!), we went out and got ourselves some holiday cheer in the form of a 3' tree. It is proudly decorated and displayed on our kitchen table. Good ol' Relief Society gave me the chance to make a few other decorations, so we're doing what we can here. Sadly, my advent calendar was left in Oregon, so for the first December of my life I am advent calendar-less :( But we'll bring it back with us after our holiday trip so we'll have it for next year.

It's kind of strange not having 20+ years of collected decorations at your disposal to put up around the house. But you have to start somewhere, I guess. And what we do have is about 4 solid days worth of Christmas music, which has been on pretty much non-stop since Thanksgiving. Time has been going by fast, and pretty soon we'll be on the road and off to see our families. I'm super excited!

Filled with new confidence after my apple pie turned out, I'm actually HOSTING a Christmas party next week- crazy, I know. I don't even like parties. But Christmas makes it different. So bring on the pies, desserts, and ugly Christmas sweaters- we're having a party.

Wish me luck!

Thanks giving

As this Thanksgiving day draws to a close, I find myself feeling a lot of gratitude for some of the little things that mean a lot, such as:

1. Landon and I finally got to spend a holiday together

2. My first attempt at making my very own pie was successful, even the home-made pie crust

3. Even though we were away from our families, a group of us coasties and wives came together to make our own kind of family for the holiday

4. Christmas music is now officially acceptable

5. Thanksgiving dinner was wonderful, and made by someone else (I'm glad I only had to worry about the pie!)


I am so grateful for where I am, for Landon, my family, my friends. Happy Thanksgiving.

Courtney on tv!

More specifically, Courtney's SONG is on tv! My song "weightless" is being used in an NBC promo for Law & Order SVU! I got the call that I was in the final stages of selection early last week but didn't hear back about it until we got a phone call from Landon's parents congratulating us on having my song in the commercial. Since then I've gotten phone calls and lots of facebook attention and it's been great to hear from everybody. Ironically, in spite of my sudden religious watching of NBC, I have yet to actually see the ad. But I trust it's there.

Hopefully this snowballs into other opportunities- we'll see. Pretty exciting though!