Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt

One of the fun things Stephanie thought we could all do was was a Christmas Light Scavenger Hunt and then after an hour we would meet at a place called Cosi for dessert. It was a lot of fun and since most of the Itri's are competitive, everyone was working hard to find all of the things on the list. Unfortunately Dan and I didn't win: Todd, Megan, Lila and Margie did, but we did get a make-your-own s'more kit at Cosi which was really cute and delicious. 

Itri White Elephant Party

It was the first Itri White Elephant Party in Pennsylvania and it was a success! We had a lot of fun with a  minute to win it games, get to know you games, gift exchange, a photo booth and yummy food.

Photo Booth Pictures

Minute to Win it games:

Face the Gingerbread Man, Marshallow Toss, and Merry Fishmas

And other fun stuff

My 25th Birthday

It's official, I am a quarter of a century old. Crazy! Anyway for my birthday I wanted to spend the day in the city so we went to my favorite place to eat which is the Reading Terminal Market. It's a place where there are a ton of different vendors and I love going to different vendors and getting food so it was perfect. I really wanted sushi, but since I am pregnant I had to just stick with tempura shrimp sushi, a fruit drink from a different vendor, cannoli from Termini Brothers and hot chocolate before we left so I could drink it while we were walking around. Dan of course got his favorite sandwich in the world which is Dinnicks roast pork sandwich.

Then we went to the Macys Light show, the Christmas Village at love park and ended the night by watching Catching Fire at the movies theater. It was over 60 degrees outside which was fabulous and overall was a great birthday!

Christmas Tree

One of the traditions Dan's family does is go to a tree farm and cut down there own tree. This was my first time doing it so I was really excited. We walked around the place 3 or 4 times because it's hard to find the perfect tree, but we finally found the one! I'm excited to add this to our yearly traditions.

Margie and Dan spent a lot of time trying to make sure the trees were tied down tight enough because we don't have ski racks. They did a good job and we made it home without any trees falling off. 

 End Result 

Dan's 27th Birthday

It's crazy how time flies. I feel like Dan is still the 21 year old I met 6 years ago, but somehow we just celebrated his 27th birthday. His favorite dessert and candy is anything peanut butter and chocolate so I made him a reeses birthday cake with peanut butter chocolate frosting and a ganache topping. I tried doing a sentimental gift and came up with 27 memories we have had together and attach them to balloons. I realized though that Dan would not want me to spend $30 on balloons so I only got 5 balloons and the rest were attached on pictures (which he appreciated). I brought that over to his office and then we went over to King of Prussia to eat at the cheesecake factory. Afterwards we went shopping for shoes because he loves shoes. Then we went home and opened the rest of his presents up. 

Halloween Party

So usually the Halloween party has been at Scott and Lisa's house every year, but this year they were out of town and came back a couple of days before the date so we had the party at our house instead. They do a much better job at throwing Halloween parties, but it was still really fun!