Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree

Since getting hired, I've been so excited for the Gem State Radiology Christmas party! Our radiologists host a party for ALL the radiology employees at ALL of our hospitals. Which is incredibly nice of them. But that meant 1) work people would get to see me outside of scrubs 2) BF would get to meet my coworkers and 3) I would get to see all my friends from other hospitals!! Oh and I had an excuse to go shopping for a new dress.

Then we held our annual ugly sweater party at our house. I must say...there were some pretty ugly ones! Even the boys dressed up! Roomie and I made Mulled Wine and Hot Buttered Rum and of course had 8 million cookies to share. The end result was wayyyy too much fun. And work was not quite so much fun the next morning.

We Need A Little Christmas

Saying Roomie and I love Christmas would be an understatement. However we held it together and waited until the end of October to decorate. Trust me...that's pretty good for us! 

This year we did a booze-y tree...it was so fun!! We decorated the white tree with mini shots from the liquor store. We figured this is the one time in our lives where that's acceptable, so why not?!

Mosby was generally a scrooge the whole Holiday season, but he did enjoy the ribbon. The hat? Not so much. 

 Then the baking started. We thought it would be fun to see how much of each ingredient we used throughout the season so we kept a tally. Pretty impressive for just the 2 of us! Almost all of the treats went as gifts...once I'd made that many I didn't feel like eating any cookies anyways.

For my friend gifts I did these cute wine/sock combos I found on Pinterest (naturally). Then my coworkers all got hot chocolate and bailey's mugs. I'm trying not to look too much into the fact this entire post has revolved around alcohol...

Last but not least, the yearly Christmas card! Ugly sweaters required. Even Mosby wore his! Took us a couple tries...but we finally got it. Merry Christmas everyone!

Lucky

With my new job the holiday schedule works out pretty well. Each person only has to work 1 holiday a year, and some are as easy as 4th of July or Labor Day. And that's it! Then sometimes you get the less fun holidays...like Thanksgiving and Christmas. I of course got Thanksgiving my first year here. And of course it was one of the few years my birthday falls on...wanna guess what? Yep...Thanksgiving. I threw myself a mini pity party...then got over it. Because that just meant my family would be joining me in Boise for Thanksgiving this year!

It worked out perfectly because Roomie was back home visiting her family, so my fam just stayed at my place! Dad and I did our birthday gifts together, since I missed his a few weeks prior. I was on call most of the weekend, but we still managed to explore the new Whole Foods in Boise, supervise Dad making delicious Thanksgiving dinner, and go to the Festival of Trees. It was sooo pretty!! I want to decorate a tree like that someday. Mosby was a typical grinch and was none too pleased with all the holiday cheerfulness. 

This year I am so thankful for my amazing family and being able to spend the holiday with them!