on the 7th date of Christmas...

we headed to Wilson Diamonds!

remember, this is where Devin and I got each other's wedding rings? Because Devin's cool friend, Matt is a real life Wilson? yes.

anyway. we went becaaaaauuussse Matt set up a lights show outside the store! I thought it was sort of funny to do a holiday lights show outside of a jeweler's, but I must say, it was really impressive! I don't know how they do these things, but it was awesome!

we just parked the car, tuned our radio to 99.9 FM and watched the lights dance along to songs like "Mr. Grinch", "Charlie Brown Christmas", "Carol of the Bells", some techno christmas something, and some other song I can't remember.

see the blue face in the tree? it sang the grinch song. the mouth and eyes moved like it was talking, and it was pretty legit!

don't mind the fact that i look like a drunken/moonface girl. i can't seem to take a decent picture lately.

It was pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. even more awesome? is the fact that i got some on video! (on the far right, you can see the lights on the windows do the wave several times. that was my favorite part.) also, i stopped it before the end. oops! (you know, when it goes "ding! dong ding!" and then a really low bass guy goes (doooooonnnnnggggg.) so sorry.

 after the show, we went to our current favorite restaurant, Wing Nutz. i'm pretty sure Devin is constantly craving these wings. in all seriousness. he always wants them. (and i really don't blame him. they're amazing).

after we ate, i told devin i wanted something sweet, like a cake bite from the Sweet Tooth Fairy a few shops down. he politely declined and said we should eat muddie buddies at home. fine with me!

but. we were both too restless to head home immediately, so we headed to Home Depot to kill some time (yes. we spend free time at home depot window shopping). we like to pick things out for our future house / dream home. it's actually really fun. plus, devin has been dying to get some tools, so we spent the majority of the time over there, playing with drills and nail guns.

meanwhile, I get a text from my younger sister, McKayla, who just so happens to work at [the previously mentioned] The Sweet Tooth Fairy. She says she is working right now, and has a $10 giftcard for the place she wants to give to us. Wha??

It doesn't really get much better. I excitedly tell Devin, and he gets that look on his face and says "...but it's a long way to drive. and we just came from there..." and, of course I said, "well. maybe you learned your lesson then. you should have listened to me the first time i said i wanted a cake bite. besides, i already told her we'd be there soon." [it was just a pretend fight, guys. i promise.]

ah-ha! i'm sure devin wasn't possibly disappointed about the drive clear across town when we came home with this:

a lemon bar, grasshopper, fairyfettie, peanut butter, and red velvet cake bites, and a cookies and cream cupcake. scooooore.