Monthly Archives: December 2010

Christmas 2010

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Our first Christmas as “married people” was awesome! Though it wasn’t the same opening presents early on Christmas morning with our sisters and brothers, it was our own. Christmas Eve we went to LifeChurch’s Christmas Eve service with some of our family. After before going to our Aunt & Uncles, we made our traditional stop at McDonalds. We only eat appetizers, so we usually get in a quick meal first. We open presents with our crazy little cousins and got to spend time with all the sisters and brother-in-laws/fiances. Here are some photos from the night.

Christmas morning, we opened our own presents, played a little of the original Mario for the Wii, that Drew got from Vanessa. Then headed over to Vanessa’s parents house where the rest of our family comes over and we made Mongolian Beef. It was so yummy! We have lots of fun just relaxing, playing with the baby and whatnot.

When we got home from spending the day with our family, our cat was the most vegg-ed out cat ever, it looks like he enjoyed the peace and quiet. Drew got me a deep fryer, and now I have to find some new recipes (if you have some, send them to me!) We celebrated with Drew’s family earlier because some of them were heading to Florida for the weekend. All in all, a great first Christmas together as “married people.”

New Job for Vanessa

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Sorry we have been holding out on everyone lately, we have been insanely busy the past few weeks with Christmas coming up, my sister’s wedding and getting ready for a NEW JOB! I had been applying to places like crazy for a few months now and was getting no where, and then this opportunity came out of the blue. On January 10, I will be the new graphic/web designer for the Holland Beauty E-Commerce sites, under the leadership of Jon Studer. Jon just emailed me one day to see if I could come in to talk about the position and I new right away it was the opportunity I’ve been waiting and looking for. God has perfect timing.

I will be working on the design side of the E-Commerce Sites, HollandBulbFarms.com and TulipWorld.com, as well as the future iPhone app, iMyGarden. So get ready for some new work. My internship and freelancing with Birds&Blooms of Readers Digest Association will hopefully help inside this flower world. I’ll be learning a lot of new things at this new job and am so excited to expand my knowledge. I don’t want to ever stop learning.

While I am excited to start this new amazing opportunity, I will miss my friends at VIF. It has been a good three years of learning and developing my skill, but it is time to move on to bigger and better things.

Vanessa’s Etsy Headband Featured in Curb Magazine

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Students of UW-Madison, create a student produced magazine each semester. In October, one of the students contacted me to feature one of my etsy creations, the blue headband, in a spread about etsy creators from Wisconsin. So I shipped off my headband to be featured. The magazine is complete and I was so excited to see it on the spread. Take a look! Thank you, Julia and Cailley, for letting me be part. The magazine looks awesome! You can view the online/blog form at www.curbonline.com, otherwise you can view the magazine-styled one here.

Be sure to check out my etsy shop, www.vanessawyler.etsy.com. I have some example of things I can create. I can do other colors than you see, so contact me if you have something you want me to make!

Married for Half a Year

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Today is the day, we have officially been married for 6 whole months, a half of a year. It is crazy to think time has flown by this fast! We love every second of being married. We are also super excited for Vanessa’s sister Becky and Josh to tie the knot in just a couple weeks. Vanessa gets to be a bridesmaid and Drew gets to be a groomsmen this time around. Watch out for pictures from that event! But here is a quick trip down memory lane (this memory lane isn’t that long) from our wedding day, six short months ago!

First Snow for 2010!

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Looks like we should probably scrap the pumpkins now that it is officially snowing. I think they are cold too. PS What do you do with old pumpkins? We are starting to decorate for Christmas, here are a few sneak peeks! And we are officially listening to Christmas music, whether Drew likes it or not (He secretly does!) We will post some of our favorite Christmas tunes soon too!

What Christmas tradition does your family do?

Christmas Cookies

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As our first Christmas together, we are trying to create our own traditions that we can someday do with our kids. To start of the Christmas season, we decorated cookies for our stay-at-home date night. Luckily, being the graphic designer, Vanessa is, we got letter cookie cutters for a wedding present. Each year we are going to try to do the same spelling out which year it is.