Another festive post, just like I promised! These photos have quite the story behind. I took them prior to Christmas in my boyfriend's town. Then about two years later they mysteriously disappeared from my memory card. I was honestly heartbroken. It may not be equivalent to losing imporant pictures from your wedding, honeymoon, summer vacation pictures, etc. but it was still special to me. It reminded me of the weekend my boyfriend spent together celebrating Christmas early together. I wanted to cry when I couldn't find them. Hope was given to me when I discovered that you could download software to find these "hidden" pictures. Once the software located the pictures, you were required to pay a fee to download the pictures. I did not feel like spending $50 to have 15 or so photos. I tried many, many "free" software and was left with the same dilemma. I almost gave up, but then I tried the recovery software zar, and poof....it worked! I can't tell you how much happiness was filled when I was able to download my new/old photos. I'm telling you, it was a Christmas miracle!
I'm kind of obsessed with this little snow village in my boyfriend's hometown. We went there at night with his little niece and nephew. They were serving hot coco and had sleigh rides around town. Plus there was an old fashion sleigh that you could sit in and take pictures. So of course I knew I wanted to come back here for pictures.


The next day, we opened presents bright and early. It was cute having our own little Christmas. He got me the prettiest silky robe and a crystal heart necklace. We adventured out into the snow to go tobogganing. Believe it or not, I don't own much wintergear. The extent to my cold weather gear is a wool peacoat. I used to own a nice fuzzy pair of mittens that I stole from my boyfriend. Somehow though I lost one of the mittens, so they're no good now. I swear that always happens to me. So I wore my boyfriend's oversized sweatpants over my jeans and his moms wool socks, gloves, and boots. The only thing that was mine was my coat and scarf. Oh and the packer hat his mom got me for Christmas. So Santa, if you're reading this, I'm in desperate need of winter essentials!