34 days until Christmas!

There have been so many posts about the holidays. And it made me excited--I wanted to blog about the holidays too. Christmas is, hands-down, my favorite time of the year! It feels so magical and special EVERY YEAR.

My family has made it so special over the years---
--As kids we all slept in front of the tree the first night we got it and on Christmas Eve! My sister and I still do that! :)
--Putting up the tree was always one of my favorite things. We would go pick out the tree together as a family and then bring it back to the house, turn on Christmas music, and open all our boxes of ornaments and decorate our tree. And then we would turn off all the lights except for the lights on the tree, and we would just sit on the couch and stare at it.--The girls in our family always have a baking day! I love baking day--it makes the house smell good, and then there are fun treats out for anyone who comes over.--On Christmas Eve, we always get a new pair of fun Christmas pajamas. I know I'll keep this tradition with my kids because I have loved it so much.--We have special Christmas blankets that we sleep with during the month of December, and we take them with us when we go looking at lights!--We love going shopping because everywhere is decorated so beautifully for Christmas!--The girls in our family get all dressed up one day before Christmas and go have a fancy afternoon tea. This will be our 5th annual this year. The group keeps getting bigger as the boys in our family get married. This year we have one new member, my cousin's new wife, Andrea. I posted about their wedding here.
This year I started making some fun Christmas words for decoration. I bought a ton of fun Christmas paper and then just thought of all the Christmas-y words that I could. Here are some pictures. Today my church back home had a craft fair and my mom took the word banners to sell them at the craft fair. Everyone was loving them--so fun! I made some holiday spending money. They're fun to hang on a tree, or use to wrap a present, or hang on the wall! I made one for our house, too. I'm taking custom orders so let me know if you want one! ;)It's our first married Christmas and I know it's going to be so special. We get to buy our first Christmas tree, hang our first set of Christmas lights, and over-decorate our house!!! I can't wait. We get to start once we get home from Thanksgiving.

Tell me your favorite family traditions, and recipes, and memories. I love to hear the different ways everyone celebrates!

Michael & Andrea

I promised to post about my cousin's wedding and now I'm finally getting around to it. It was a beautiful wedding, at a southern California vineyard, Wilson Creek! There's something about family weddings that just feel extra special. I felt so happy for Michael and Andrea! Here are some of my favorite pictures.CoraKingston Photography

Me, Mayla, Kristen, My mom, My sister, My sister
My mom & dad. My dad did the ceremony!

These lined the aisle! :) They were beautiful. CoraKingston Photography!
Michael waiting for his bride!
The ceremony!
Beautiful Andrea!

After the ceremony! CoraKingston Photography!
My handsome husband and me before the reception!
Two of my favorite girls--Tara and Erica! This was toward the end of the reception!


It was a wonderful wedding. I love getting to be a part of such an important day. I am looking forward to our next one!

Morgan Elizabeth King

I wanted to ask all of you to keep my best childhood friend in your prayers. My friend, Morgan, got hit by a motorcycle while crossing the street last weekend. It was Sunday night, after my cousin's wedding (I'll put pictures up from that soon). She and a few friends were walking to get food in Downtown Temecula, CA. When they went to cross the street, no one saw the motorcycle coming, and it hit Morgan.

Here's an article about the accident: http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/temecula/article_d6b4e984-6bbe-51ad-a954-4a7007799f61.html

She was in ICU up until yesterday. She just got moved to PCU-Progressive Care Unit. She is a little bit more stable at this point, but still in very serious condition. She sustained serious injuries including compound fracture of the tibula and fibula, Grade 4 Liver Laceration, 3 breaks in her pelvis, contusion and hematoma L5 Spine and a great deal of internal bleeding. :(

Here's another website if you care to keep up with the updates on her condition: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/morganking

Thanks for taking the time to read this. And please keep her and her family in your prayers!

Wedding Video

Our videographer, Davis Paul, just finished putting together a wonderful video from our wedding day. He just put some of his favorite shots and clips into a short 3:45 minute video. I absolutely love how it turned out. Now all of you who weren't there can get a little glimpse of our wonderful day. Can you tell how happy I am? Eventually I will have all the footage from the day, but here's a little teaser for now.

Amy & Danny Reid from Davis Paul on Vimeo.

Nicole at East Coast Wedding presented me with the Kreativ Blogger Award!

Yahoo! Thank you for giving me this award! :)

Rules: Post 7 facts about myself and then award 7 other bloggers with the "Kreativ Blogger" award!

So here are some facts about me:

1. There are 4 tastes I really don't like: mushrooms, unions, tomatoes, and mustard!

2. I LOVE Black & White!

3. Being a wife is #1 on my list of things I love doing most!

4. My middle name is Kristen!

5. I can't wait to be a mom!

6. I loved every day of planning my wedding. There wasn't anything I didn't love planning.

7. Christmas is my absolute favorite time of year!

Totally random facts, and not the 7 MOST important things about me, but I just tried to use the first things I thought of!

And here are the 7 blogs that I am awarding:

1. Seaside Smitten

2. I carry your heart with me...i carry it in my heart

3. The Lucky Layman's

4. Sweet Simplicity

5. Finding Home

6. P.S I love this

7. Adventures in the Life of Mr. & Mrs. A

Our MAUI honeymoon!

I was just looking at some other blogs, and realized how much I enjoy reading about and seeing pictures from honeymoons, and it inspired me to post about my honeymoon. Danny and I got to spend a week in Maui for our honeymoon! Get ready for a lot of pictures!

But first, I just have to say what a complete blast it was for us. Danny and I had NEVER been on a vacation together, just the two of us. I loved being at the airport with him, waiting to board our flight. I loved the LONG flight, sitting next to my new husband. I loved that we had to figure out our rental car. I loved that this vacation was just for the two of us. We had the time of our lives. It was so relaxing and special. As a wedding gift, I bought Danny a new wallet and filled it with cash. We had been saving money for a little over a year (not knowing what we were saving for). I cashed all of this money and was so excited for Danny to see how much we had. I wrote him a note in the wallet saying that it was our money for the honeymoon. It was fun to have this wallet of cash that allowed us to act like we were rich for a week. So now here are some of my favorite pictures. There are TONS more, but these are the highlights!

Our ADORABLE Mindy Weiss luggage tags!

We had a layover in Honolulu so we ate dinner in the airport!
This was our first morning in Maui. There's a wonderful Gazebo restaurant right on the water. We at here 3 or 4 times throughout the trip. DELICIOUS!
Our first day at the beach!
Walking around in beautiful Maui!
Downtown Lahaina and the pretty flowers!
This was an amazing monumental park!
Waking up early in the morning to go check the waves with Danny! It was perfect weather every hour of the day and night!
On of our favorite beaches!
Exploring!
Lunch on a water-front restaurant!
Driving to our magic show! We would highly recommend this to anyone going to Maui!
Before the magic show-we got a honeymooners drink!
During the magic show-we got to be a part of the show!
One of the highlights of the trip for me--SHAVED ICE (especially Local Boys shaved ice)!
Getting ready for Lahaina again!
Hard Rock Cafe!
Lahaina!
Local Boys!
This was our favorite spot, discovered late in the week. Our room where we were staying is right behind us in this picture, but one floor up. The water is right in front of us. We decided to pull these chairs over onto the grass so we could look out at the water. We could have gone on the sand, but we just liked having our own little area!
Enjoying our area!
Jumping!
Resting!
Dinner out at one of the nicest restaurants EVER!
Driving there!
Another day at our special spot!
Relaxing!
And this is us on our way to the airport to go home. We were sad to leave Maui, but excited to go back to our new home, open all our gifts, and be husband and wife!
It was a perfect honeymoon. We both hope to go back. We had such a wonderful time and enjoyed our first days as Mr. and Mrs. Reid more than I thought was possible! After 3 months of being married, it is so much fun to look back over all of these pictures and remember all the things we did and what a special time we had!

Loving being a wife!

Danny and I have been married 3 months today! Sometimes it feels like it has flown by and sometimes it feels like we've always been married. Being a wife, and being married is even more wonderful than I had thought or hoped. I still look at pictures from our wedding day and just can't believe what a perfect and sweet day it was for us. I can't believe I AM MARRIED. It still hits me sometimes--I always dreamed of being married! I wondered what it would be like, who my husband would be, what my house would look like, how I would learn how to be a wife...And now this is my life. And I am learning and growing and loving and experiencing, and IT IS THE BEST! I love everything about being a wife- cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, making fun desserts, decorating our house, dreaming together with my husband, going through everything together, grocery shopping, showing up to everything together, making decisions together, eating meals with each other, praying together, and just loving and appreciating the health in our lives. It is such a blessing that I get to be married to my sweet Daniel Tyler Reid!

Well.....A few posts ago, I talked about the weddings we had coming up. Last night was our first one. Our friends Kevin and Brittany got married! Danny was in the wedding. It was our first wedding since we have been married--what a cool feeling. Geez I love having a husband. My brother Caleb, and my sister-in-law, Kali stayed with us this weekend to go to the wedding. It was a perfect, fun, relaxing, wedding-filled weekend. Here are some pictures from the wedding:Kali & I on our way to the wedding!

Caleb & Kali after the ceremony!Danny & I after the ceremony!
The wonderful Mr. & Mrs. Lindsey!
The girls!
The wedding party!
Caleb, Kali, Brittany, Kevin, Danny & me at the reception!

Keep checking back...we have a wedding in two weekends. I'll post pictures from that one soon after!