The Stockings Were Hung

Let's just for a second close our eyes and think about sitting by a nice, warm fireplace drinking hot chocolate. Do you not just get the BEST COZIEST feeling in the world? I do.

Lucky for me, me and Tyler have a nice big fireplace in our house. I honestly love it. AND since we have an awesome fireplace, what would Christmas be without stockings to hang, right?

These are our stockings




If you looked at them and thought that they were weirdly shaped, that's probably because they are. I'm not the greatest sewer in the world, but they worked out better than I thought they would, so I'm happy!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS

Sonny Bonny

Here Comes Sonia
She has Ammonia
Her favorite Food is Lasagna
Me and Sonia made up that poem once when we were probably 12. I'm pretty sure she's never had ammonia in her whole entire life, and I don't even know if her favorite food is lasagna, but it all rhymed, and it's the best poem ever.

I FINALLY got to go visit her in Utah! Oh, I miss that girl. It was just the three girls, me, my mom, and Sonia, and seriously, I had so much fun. I have the greatest family ever. I'm the luckiest.

I think I need to tell everyone how completely the same my mom and Sonj are. Honestly, they're the same person.
They both like the same things
Hate the same things
Get grossed out by the same things
Are clean freaks
Get paranoid about every single little thing
Get stressed out about pretty much everything
and they're definitely both a little frazzle-brained, but that's why I love them. I LOL'd the whole trip.

We all bought the same glasses, for $2.


They're sweet.


Since this whole blog is dedicated to Sonia, here's a little slideshow I made up super quick. The pictures are lame cuz they're all from this year basically with three older ones, but it's the song that everyone needs to listen too.
Me and Sonia LOVED Barney. We used to act it out while we watched it, and I had the BIGGEST crush on Michael. Michael from Barney is hot. This song is from Barney, and I think me and Sonia sang it once at a talent show? It's my favorite song. Oh, and I cut the song in half. It was way too long and I didn't have that much pictures.

awkward....

I'm hopeless at keeping up on anything. Okay, what was I thinking having a Scrumptious Sunday? Really, have I stuck to any routine in my whole entire life? No. Was I super busy these past two weeks that I didn't have time to do it? No.

On a side note, I'm the most AWKWARD person alive. It's true. My poor visiting teachers. They're the nicest girls alive. They came here this month for the first time because our ward just got switched around, and I'm pretty sure they'll never come again. Actually, they will come again because they're too nice not to, but they're going to dread it. My awkwardness emits off me and absorbs into anyone who's in the same room as me. It was a nightmare for them, I'm sure. Just so awkward.

Scrumptious Sunday: Homemade Chicken Pot Pie

Sundays may just become the only days I blog. The week just goes by so fast!

My scrumptious sunday this week WAS going to be S'mores Cookies -- Two of my favorite things baked into one! Chocolate chip cookies and s'mores...sounds delicious, right? I'm sure it would be delicious too if I wasn't such a tard at baking. I failed badly at these cookies.



They look good, but they're doughy on the bottom. I tried cooking the other batch more, and the top burnt bad and the bottom was still doughy.

Mine was an epic fail, but if anyone wants to give a try, go to Mrs. Harding Cooks. It's over there <----------- under good stuff. And if the cookies work out, please invite me over and let me have a taste.

So the recipe today? Homemade Chicken Pot Pie. It's my most favorite thing I've made for dinner, and that's probably because it has no vegetables in it and it's SUPER easy to cook.

Ingredients
1 can of cream of chicken soup
1 can of corn, drained
2 cups of cubed COOKED chicken or turkey
1 package (8 1/2 ounces) corn muffin mix
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 cup shredded cheese

* Heat the oven to 400 degrees. Stir the soup, corn, and chicken in a 9-inch pie plate (I used a casserole dish, and it worked out just fine)
* Stir the muffin mix, milk, and egg with a fork in a small bowl until the ingredients are mixed. Spoon over the chicken mixture. (The first time I made this I used all the muffin mix, and the crust ended up WAY too thick. Now when I make it, I just spoon it over until it barely covers all the food. It hardly uses any of the muffin mix)
* Bake for 30 minutes or until the cornbread is golden. Sprinkle with cheese.

Scrumptious Sunday: Starbucks Caramel Apple Spice

Being a newly wed and having never cooked anything in my life really, I love coming across good recipes to use. Who doesn't love a good recipe, right? I've decided every Sunday to put a recipe on my blog that's easy enough for me to make and completely scrumptious. Please enjoy my Scrumptious Sunday

Starbucks Caramel Apple Spice
I found this recipe on the internet once when I was craving Caramel Apple Spice SO bad. They key ingredient here is the cinnamon dolce syrup. Lucky for us, Starbucks will sell you a bottle for only $6'ish if they have a lot of it in stock.



Ingredients
100% Apple Juice
Caramel Ice Cream Topping
Whipped Cream
Starbucks Cinnamon Dolce Syrup

All you do is heat up a mug of apple juice in the microwave. Add 1 to 1 1/2 teaspoons of Cinnamon Dolce syrup and a squeeze of caramel ice cream topping and stir. Top with whipped cream and caramel and wah-lah! your very own Caramel Applce Spice

Chevy

We got a PUPPY DOG



Please understand that I have never had a dog in my whole entire life. False, I had one for about one month once. It's name was buddy, and everytime you'd go to play with it, it'd pee on you. It was a hyper hyper hyper puppy, and we couldn't keep it. The joy of having a dog was certainly short lived.

BUT me and Tyler got one yesterday. We named him Chevy, and I think it's safe to say he's about the cutest thing I've ever seen. It melts my heart everytime I look at him. I'm a proud little mother!

There Was Love In the Air

Hurray for marriage! I've been married a month and two weeks, and I can truthfully say that I have loved every second of it. I'm not even lying. I should have met Tyler years ago and got married then.
I have all my wedding pictures finally, and I just have to say that Meghan is THE greatest. She took all these pictures and I love every single one of them, so THANK YOU so much, Meghan.
Here's a little story of the special day.

Once upon a time there were two people very much in love.
Their names were Brittney

And Tyler

They were married August 14th, 2010

On their very special magical day they had the cutest flower girls by far,

A gorgeous maid of honor,

And a very handsome best man.

Brittney's flower of choice were the Billy Balls

She has awesome possum friends that came to share her fabulous day

Tyler has some fabulous sisters that he gets to share with Brittney now.

And now that they're married, they're all one big happy family....yay!!

And They Lived Happily Ever After

The End.

Only Just Love It

I did something I shouldn't have today, and I will never do it again until I have so much money that I don't know what to do with it.
I went to the Anthropologie website.
Big mistake. I love everything on there all the time, but it's always way too much money. Usually I can deal with it, but today I saw something, and I want it SSSSOOOOO bad. I only just LOVE it. And I even was going to buy it. I knew it was going to be a little bit on the pricey side, but I loved it so much that I'd probably pay anything for it. Except $230. I'm not that rich yet. Some day.

Isn't it a beauty? I'm crushed.

I'm Alive

Don't worry, me and Tyler are still alive. I know you were all worried since I haven't blogged for a while, but that's only because NOTHING ever happens to us. As soon as I get wedding pictures from Meg I'll put them up and tell you all about the wedding. It was magical and perfect in every way.
We have a dead gecko sitting on our stairs outside. If anyone would like to get it away from here, go right ahead.

Scaredy-Cats

Me and Tyler need to stop watching scary shows before we go to bed. At night time we are both the biggest babies I know. I'm not kidding.

Take, for example, Monday night. I fell asleep way before Tyler like I do every night, but this time he woke me up and said, Brittney, someone is outside our window. If anyone knows me, you know not to wake me up once I'm sleeping. I am the grumpiest person alive when that happens. So I call Tyler a baby and that he needs to stop being so paranoid and stop watching scary shows and go to bed. Only, after I say this, I see the shadows he's talking about. Definitely looked like a person. So I said a little prayer in my head to help calm us both down so we'd be able to sleep. Right after I'm done praying, seriously something tells me to get out of the house now. So I tell Tyler and we're both shaking like crazy and he grabs a knife and we run to our car. If anyone saw us, they would think we were going crazy. Tyler had no shirt on holding a huge knife and I just threw on some clothes that didn't match at all.

We end up staying in a hotel that night because I was not coming back. I have never been more scared in my life. I was positive we were going to come back with the house broken into.

Turns out nothing happened to our house, and I really doubt anything would have happened if we stayed. All the doors were locked and the windows were closed, but we both had such an uneasy feeling that night. It was CRAZY.

Now me and Tyler sleep in the spare room because there's only one way in there and we lock the door and there's lights outside the window. Honestly, the biggest scaredy-cats in the world.

On a lighter note, Tyler took some pictures of me on the beach with my dress on. Here's a few he took!

In a Land Called Hanalei

When I was little my dad would always sing 'Puff the Magic Dragon' to me. Every night it was either that or 'I Was Born on a Wanderin' Star', so when I got to Kauai and I opened a magazine that read In a Land Called Hanalei, I got all excited thinking this was Puff the Magic Dragon's home. I googled it though, and it's not. Puff lives in Honah Lee or something like that, BUT it's still cool, I think.

Hanalei is this little town, and the only way you can get to it is by crossing a bunch of one-way bridges. Once you get there, I think it's the prettiest part of the island. It's here where the most gorgeous beaches are -- Tunnels Beach, the beach from South Pacific. Everything is just so pretty. We've been to Hanalei three times since we've been here.

We went there again yesterday, but first we decided to go check out Queen's Bath. This is what we saw when we got there.


I definitely didn't want to be number 30, and neither did Tyler, so we took some pictures, and headed to Hanalei!

Lobster Faces

Me and a bunch of friends went down to Hawaii once about a year after we graduated. We almost missed a couple of our flights, we lost our luggage, and we swam with the sharks. I think it's safe to say we had the time of our lives -- well I most certainly did!

One day me and Angela, I think, were walking back from the beach. We walked past a bunch of kids going on a school field trip or something, and every single kid in that line called me and Angela lobster faces. We might have been a LITTLE bit burnt!

Today, me and Tyler are lobster faces. We fried yesterday. It hurts me to even sit because my legs are so burnt. I love getting burnt. That means it will turn into a tan... right?

We went to Tunnels Beach yesterday. I HIGHLY recommend it to anybody who's in Kauai. I've come to realize this whole island is beautiful, but this beach was amazing. The beach was huge and the water was blue, blue, blue.

Hideaways Beach

So I know you guys are all dying to know what happened with the car. Everything got worked out! Phew! We took the expensive car back and got another car for SUPER cheap. Happy Days! It has a dent in it and makes funny noises and the AC doesn't work if we're not moving, but it was cheap! What more could you ask for?

We went to our first beach yesterday! Which is sad considering we were here for a whole day before that. The beach is called Hideaways Beach. We had to walk a mile to get there because there was no parking spots, and trust me, a mile in this humid weather almost killed me. I'm such a baby. We get to this little path we have to follow and we come across this sketchy stairway that is honestly pretty much straight up and down. I didn't take a picture of it, but here's one I stole from google.


It's even steeper than that it some parts, and half way down some of the railings just turn into pieces of rope. It was well worth the hike though! The beach was magical and hardly no one was there.



We tried going grocery shopping last night after the beach. Can someone PLEASE tell me how the heck you're supposed to shop for two people? I've never been good at grocery shopping, but we're really in a pickle because we have no money, and groceries cost so dang much! So, my four blog followers.... literally I have four.... who just all happen to be newly weds sort of, please enlighten me!

Mrs. Tyler Seaborn

Me and Tyler are married :) Oh, I just love him.
I can't wait for our pictures to come. Meghan has a little sneak peak of our wedding on her website. Go check them out, they're fabulous. http://www.meghanmaxwell.com/

We're in Hawaii right now, and it's a DISASTER SO FAR. Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating just a little bit. How can Hawaii be a disaster. We're in Kauai right now, and it's beautiful. I have never seen anything like this. Only it's raining, pouring actually. But it's supposed to stop on Thursday and it's just all sun after that.

It's beautiful

So about the disaster part, obviously me and Tyler are just two young stupid Canadians. We got to Hawaii just fine. We didn't miss a flight and we always pretty much knew exactly what we were doing in the airport, it's just once we got to Kauai at midnight Canada time that things started to get a little hectic.

We went to go get our car that we reserved on the internet. We were excited because we got it for real cheap. We get there, and it wasn't so cheap. I guess everything adds up. Everything costs money! And to make everything worse, our credit card wouldn't work. I knew it wasn't going to work because we had used it on the weekend, and the whole entire way to Hawaii I was trying to pay if off on my online banking, but it wouldn't work. It's never done that before. I've never had ANY problems. It's because we used it on Sunday the day before we left. That's what we get. I think me and Tyler both learned our lesson.

Anyways, so the girl that was helping us, who was the nicest girl ever, was like "it's okay we take debit," so that was a relief. I hand her our debit card, and obviously that doesn't work. Why would it right? Luckily, they have a ATM right there, so we told her I'd just go take cash out. Yeah, that didn't happen. Turns out you can only take $400 out every 24 hours. That wasn't enough money.

So then I phone my mom and tell her what happened and she gives me her credit card number over the phone. I'm thinking that this will work just fine, but we were having the worst luck ever, and they wouldn't take it without the actual card.

So we end up just paying for half of it. We were there for about two hours I bet, so we didn't get to our place until 2 o'clock Canada time. We were exhausted.

We have to go back tomorrow to pay for the rest, but our credit card is still not working. We don't know what to do!!
So, wish us luck and pray that everything will work out for us tomorrow. We're a little worried and stressed.

Besides this little episode, married life has been fantastic. I can't believe I get to spend the rest of my life with my Ty Baby.
Look how cute him and Travis are :)
I'm the luckiest.

Fam Fam Reunions

Heggie family reunions = pretty much always a good time.
This year was especially fun because Tyler got to come with me, and I even got to put his name on the family tree thing!! That's how close we are to getting married. Can I just say that I can't even hardly wait! There's 32 more days, and that's 32 days too long.

Here are the best parts of the family reunion.
Massive Slip & Slide

Notice the death grip I have on Sonia's arm.
I peed my pants every time I went down. It scared me a lot.


Zorbs?


The day before we went to the reunion I was looking at these zorb things and I told Tyler I wanted to do it this summer. The ones I was looking at were in Calgary and about 73 times bigger, but these were close.

Too bad I couldn't work it and would just get stuck upside down every time I tried.


p.s. I have baby fever. There are cute babies all around me!!!

Oh, The Places You'll Go

This week I had to work in Medicine Hat. Three days in a row. That right there should make you feel blessed and appreciative of the fact that you do not have to do that. The lawyers were all super nice and the witnesses were cute old men and I loved them, so I guess it really wasn't that bad. I really don't even mind working in Medicine Hat, but what I do mind is having to stay over night there in a hotel...by myself! I have never in my life done anything by myself. I took all my lifeguarding courses with friends, I went to college with friends, I moved to Edmonton with friends. I always ALWAYS make someone go with me. I don't like experiencing things by myself. I guess there's a first for everything. I didn't know what to do once I got to the hotel. I had hours to waste before I could go to sleep, so basically I sat on the bed and worked on my transcripts. When I finally did go to bed, guess what I found in the sheets! Long black hair. Oh, gross. I'm too shy to go do anything about it, so I just went and slept on the other side of the bed, and I slept like a baby until I had to wake up at 6 in the morning. Way too early for me. Best part of the hotel? The bedspread by far. Check it out. Lovely eh? If you can see it good enough, don't forget to look at the flamingo. Best part.
Also, me and Tyler played with chalk the other day. Everyone laughed at us when they'd walk by.

Father's Day

This is my dad, and I LOVE my dad.
I love lots of things about my dad, way too much to list, but here are my top 5 things I love about my dad.
1. He still gives me hugs. I may be 21, but as long as I'm living, I will always need my dad's hugs.
2. He can talk to ANYONE. Seriously. We mock him a lot about this because he'll talk to anyone wherever we are, but really, I'm completely jealous.
3. He makes the GREATEST popcorn. If you have not had it yet, you are missing out.
4. He takes me out to lunch whenever we're both in Lethbridge. Lunch dates are my favorite.
5. My dad is the greatest dad in the world. No doubt about it.
6. Does number 5 even count? Well, here's 6 just in case. He loves his family. He would do anything for us! We're really so lucky to have him as a dad. I don't know what we'd do without him.

Tyler

So this only took me 483 days to get this blog thing figured out, but I finally have one! I'm the number one blog creeper. I'm not even kidding, so I figured I should maybe get one. Also, I think if I wasn't so in love right now and engaged, I'd probably be disgusted by my blog. Usually this would be WAY too lovey-dovey for me, but I guess this is what happens when you're in love. Who would have thought.
I was thinking the other day, and I realized none of my friends even know Tyler. Some of you have met him, but he was probably all shy and awkward, just like me. He's really not shy and awkward at all. I know you're all dying to get to know him before I get married to him, so here's a list of things he loves to do! Tyler's going to kill me, but enjoy!
He loves to DANCE


His favorite restaurant is OSHOS


He's an excellent SKATER


He makes very good BIRD NOISES


He likes listening to SYSTEM OF A DOWN


and he LOVES ME!