Weekly iPhone Roundup {12.24 - 12.30}

 I know I haven't blogged all week, but there's honestly been nothing to blog about. I've spent a lot of time with family this week - when I'm not doing that I'm playing games... shocker. I'm so very thankful for our new internet provider, but it's still not fiber fast, but it gets the job done. I've been downloading God of War: Ragnarok since Sunday and it's still not done. Mind you, I don't let it download 24/7, but roughly 12 hours a day maybe. It's like 86gb, but I was able to play it when it hit like 28gb, so there's that.

Let me just say that this game is a blast! I mean, it's as GOW as any other, but the combat in this game is what makes it's so much fun.

In between downloading that, I've been playing the remastered version of The Last Of Us. Literally been one of y favorite games of all time since December of 2014, which is when I got it for the first time on PS4. Plus I'm wanting to play while I impatiently wait on HBO's The Last Of Us to come out. I've been counting down the days for months now.

Anyways, here are the random ass photos from my week. Hope everyone has a save and Happy New Year!

Snowy view from upstairs, just before we went home Christmas Eve.

The most random Christmas Eve shopping items.

Our beautiful snow covered road.

Homemade rice crispie treats.

Homemade sugar cookies.

The one present I'll share with you, my awesome new tripod that my aunt and uncle got me. SO thankful to have a new one, I can't wait for Milky Way season!

Homemade pumpkin bars with homemade icing.

Kool-Aid pie and cream cheese pie with toffee topping. 

My beautiful boxador.

This is one of my favorite purchases this year. It's a palm tree light for camping, which my uncle mentioned he wanted late summer. He loved it.

More snow Christmas night.

This was like 3:30am Monday.

Still snowing at 3pm Monday.

God of War Ragnarok was 89% away from being able to play. There was still like 60gb to go.

Seriously obsessed with this spinach and artichoke dip right now. I took this pic because I asked my aunt to pick some up for me.

The Last Of Us Remastered. Seriously the best game ever.

And lastly, a wet leaf on concrete.

Weekly iPhone Roundup {11.26 - 12.1}

 There's not too much to say about this week. We planned on going Christmas shopping, but that didn't pan out due to Amazon completely screwing up the bank account! I was SO annoyed and frustrated about it that I wanted to scream. I've made two semi-large order over the past week and a half, so I've had random payments coming out at all different times. That's the one thing I hate about Amazon, they don't take the money out of your account right away and it sucks.

Anyways, not going to go into all that. Here are the pics from the week!

Drive to Perryville Saturday.

My mom and step-dad's house - it looks so beautiful with all the Christmas lights!

Subway for dinner Saturday (and the rest Monday).

Christmas Tree decorating in progress.

The mini Christmas Village from Dollar Tree.

Couldn't find any white ornaments at out local Dollar General, so I got some silver and blue ones and spray painted them. Lots of messy fun!

I totally got spray paint on our planter though.

Some homemade brown butter chocolate chip cookies for tree decorating!

The finished Christmas tree. I know I posted about this already.

It's so pretty! I wish we would've wrapped John Redcorn on the wall like we did last year.

Mini Christmas Village at night.

Late night cabinet decorating this week.

And lastly, me trying to correct the bank issues last night. Writing things out on paper is the best way to go, at least to me. Got it all figured out, too. :)

Christmas 2021 {Recap}

I don't really have too much to tell about Christmas, I mainly just want to share photos of the decorations and tree because they're beautiful, lol. I love Christmas so much, so it's very obvious that Christmastime is my favorite time of year because it legit looks like a winter wonder land in the house. 

I already talked about 105mm lens that LaVaughn got me, but she also got me a Tokina 11-20mm 2.8 lens that I've wanted for EVER!! I love landscape photography, but I'm also a huge space fan, so I really, really wanted to venture into astrophotography. I attached a couple pictures that I took Christmas Eve night. They're not great, I literally just took some up at the lake behind the house. Since you have to do a very long shutter for these kinda pics, it got completely washed out by the neighbor's lights.

My aunt got me a really, really awesome Orion telescope - something I've wanted for years. I was so shocked and so thankful! It's completely new territory, so I had no idea how to do anything, lol. I'm finally (months later) starting to get the hang of it. I also just recently purchased a Barlow lens for it because Amazon had such an amazing deal.

One more thing and then I'm done. This is where I want to brag just a little bit, lol. It's not even bragging honestly, but kinda. It just something I'm super proud of and very, very thankful that we were able to do it. We got my aunt and uncle a 9th Gen iPad!! We saved up and thankfully made it happen. I think it's my aunts favorite thing ever, which I couldn't be happier about. She's on it more than her phone now, lol. I'm so so thankful we were able to do it. I think it's one of the best Christmas presents we've ever got anyone.

Okay, that's enough for now. I hope you enjoy all the pics!

Bare naked Christmas tree.

Christmas tree with lights. We did a multicolor theme last year.

Now the Christmas tree with ornaments.

Time for some macro Christmas tree ornament pictures, lol.

I love macro shots around Christmastime, especially with the 40mm lens.

I just love ornaments.

This one reminds me of retro Disney Christmas cartoons.

I love these little snowmen ornaments.

Time to hang the garland. We're all short, so a ladder is most definitely needed.

And there's our Christmas tree from last year.

I'm literally obsessed with Christmas tree lights at night.

One more Christmas tree shot with the light on.

One more nighttime Christmas tree shot.

I lied, one more Christmas tree pic at night.

This is the archway into the den/laundry room with Christmas lights and garland.

This is the archway into the living room, decked out with Christmas lights and garland.

We also put lights and garland ALL around the cabinets.

The Christmas lights and garland over the stove is some of my faves.

I don't know if I showed our Christmas Village from year before last or not, but here it is.

I'm in LOVE with our Christmas Village!

I obviously can't get enough of our Christmas tree, I apologize.

Here's a landscape picture of our Christmas tree with our lighted doorway into the garage. It's so whimsical!

This is the archway into the kitchen, decked out with garland that was decorated by my aunt. She did such a great job!

One more of the archway into the living room, all glowing with Christmas lights.

I took this picture with my phone, but I'm in love with how much this looks like a vintage or retro Christmas living room at night.

Gotta have the Christmas cookies!

These were sugar cookies from pre-packaged cookie dough.

And now for peanut butter Reese's cookies.

They were delish.

I think these were just candy sugar cookies.

Now for non-Christmas pics:

This is my Orion Starblast telescope. It's so gorgeous!

My first attempt at astrophotography with my Tokina 11-20mm 2.8 lens!

See how the neighbor's lights washed this astrophotography shot out?

Last astrophotography nighttime shot... for now!