Merry Christmas

Kodi in his Christmas Sweater

Happy Birthday Jesus and Merry Christmas to all!

Weekend in Review + Awards!

Do you have your Christmas shopping done yet? How about started? I am about half way through and now I'm looking at the calender and realizing I only have less than three weeks and only one paycheck to finish...can you hear me screaming?!

This weekend my dog decided that he just wasn't going to behave this weekend - at all. He pooped on my carpet, chewed up a pair of undies, ran away from us outside and has just been acting like a nut. I don't know what his problem was but he was driving me crazy.

I got to spend some one-on-one time with my MIL yesterday which was pretty cool. We went out shopping for some new window treatments for her house. I was able to convince her to do something a little different and it ended up looking great and she loved them - *huge sigh!* We also stopped in Target and picked up this pretty piece by Simply Shabby Chic for her bathroom. The detail in it is beautiful and matches the mirror that my husband framed for her.

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Awards! Freddae over at Coffee, God and Me gave me The Circle of Friends Award!

5 Things I like to do (in no particular order)

1. Entertain friends and family. I love to host dinners and game nights its always so much fun!
2. Cooking and baking, especially for the holidays!
3. Scrapbooking...when I can find the time
4. Home Improvement. I love to spend time with my husband working on our home. And that includes decorating, we love to go shopping and finding the perfect pieces for our home!
5. Blogging...lately its been when I find the time but I am trying to be better at it and MAKE time.

Okay now I am going to pass the award onto 5 awesome bloggers. All you have to do is publish it on your blog, referring to the friend who passed it on. Then, share five things that you like to do. Lastly, pass it along to 5 friends!

1. Hayley at Everything in Between
2. Darby at The Ramblings of Me
3. Bridget at Yellaphant
4. Brian at Running for my Life (Brian just started his blog and I hope he keeps it going! - go over and say hi!)
5. Amy at Apples & Cheese, Please (I just started following Amy's blog - its about food and its awesome!)

Okay bloggers congrats on your awards, make sure you pick it up and pass it on!

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Thanksgiving Vacation Days 3, 4 and 5

Okay, so I missed blogging about Thanksgiving Vacation Days 3, 4 and 5….but I was busy!

If you missed Day 1 and Day 2, here is a quick recap;

I caught a show in the city on Wednesday night;

(Automatic Fire @ the TLA on South Street, Phila)

Thursday (Turkey Day) was at my Moms house and it was wonderful. It was so relaxing with just my parents, brothers, my husband and I. There was no family drama or huge mess to clean up.

We decorated Mom's Christmas tree...one of them anyway

...ate a wonderful meal and spent time together as a family just relaxing. We went to bed rather early so that we could get up with the crazies (who am I kidding...we ARE the crazies!) to do some Black Friday shopping!

Friday started at 2:30 AM (better than last year…we started at midnight then) with a large cup of Wawa coffee and lots money to burn…well not so much the lots of money part. Anyway, we made our way through a few stores stopping for breakfast along the way. We made out pretty well and got done most of our Christmas shopping. Then around 10:00 AM we dropped the bags off at home, took a nap, woke up and had lunch (turkey day round # 2) and then went back out for MORE SHOPPING Y’ALL!!!! My best buy was an awesome set of bed sheets that were $89.99. I scored them for $14.99 + 15% off of that…you figure it out. I can’t tell you what I else I got cuz it’s for Christmas DUH!

Saturday I can’t even remember but I’m sure it was good.

Sunday was great because we did this…

(Thats our house all done up for Christmas!)

My Dad brought over a bucket truck to get the lights up top. That man is like a kid with a toy when it comes to using the bucket truck...any excuse he gets I tell ya!

That brings us to today…its back to work, with a sore back/neck and a cold thats turned into a sinus infection…I guess the fun had to end sometime.

How was your Thanksgiving vacation? Is your tree up yet?

A little Christmas fun

Merry Christmas!!! Here is a little peak into our Christmas day...

Lovely December

Its December 1st and the countdown to Christmas is on! It is surprisingly warm here in PA. No sight of snow around :( But we have made it look like Christmas in our home anyway. Take a look at our first ever Christmas tree!

Its hard to get a good picture with all the lights.

We picked it up at Home Depot and they have the trees organized by height. This one was grouped in with the 8-10 footers. Once we got it home we realized this was a 10 footer and our ceilings are 9 feet. Oops! Ha-ha, but it only took a second to chop off the top. I have about 800 lights on it, gold beads, gold snowflakes, gold swirly things and 4 different type of gold balls. It is a golden masterpiece!

Even hubby was joining in the Christmas spirit! He hung these wonderful lights outside.

And on Sunday morning he was still in the spirit! I came downstairs and the tree was lit up, the house was warm, Christmas music was playing and he had this wonderful breakfast waiting for me.

He even put a little red pepper and green chives in my omelet for added Christmas color. Ha-ha...I just had to take a picture because this will never happen again. Hubby is more of a scrooge than anything else. But I am not complaining :) It was very nice.