Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Family Night
On monday night for our family night we went down to the Washington DC temple to meet some friends and see the Christmas lights. Wow, they were spectacular. There were so many people there, yet it was such a beautiful and peaceful setting. They even had a live nativity, which was very neat. So I will let my pictures do the talking for me today. Enjoy!!
Sunday, December 09, 2007
This little light of mine
Oh so the competition is on! LOL! We love to decorate for Christmas, and we have always put up alot of lights outside each year, but we just found out that the post here where we live is having a contest for the best outdoor holiday decorating!! So we are gonna try our best to win!! There is some good competition out there, but we may have a few tricks up our sleeves. Bwahahahahaha!! Okay, maybe not, but we will see what happens when they judge on the 19th. There is $100 at stake. LOL!! So we have got some of them up already and hope to add some more soon. Here is what we have so far.
I am hoping to figure out how to get up to the second story to put some lights up there. We shall see. I also made a wreath for the front door. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. I found everything for it at AC Moore and it was all on sale, which makes it even better!!
Last night we got to go to the ward Christmas Party. I baked 4 Caramel Apple Pies for it and I got alot of compliments on them. There was 1 left over to bring home just for us!! Yum!!! The kids got to see Santa there and I got a couple of cute pics of them visiting with him. I love watching their faces this year with Christmas. It is so magical and exciting. We had a great evening and alot of people were in attendance. They had a great dinner and program. We really enjoyed it.
In my non-blogging mode last month, I totally forgot about Nicole losing her first tooth!! We freaked out of course, because we never expected a 4 year old to lose a tooth and thought for sure one of the boys had knocked it out. LOL. But we had an oral surgeon look at her and he examined the tooth and Nicole and said it was a natural lose!! So here is a pic of her toothless!! Anyhow, that is it for today, hopefully I can keep this blogging streak up.
I am hoping to figure out how to get up to the second story to put some lights up there. We shall see. I also made a wreath for the front door. I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. I found everything for it at AC Moore and it was all on sale, which makes it even better!!
Last night we got to go to the ward Christmas Party. I baked 4 Caramel Apple Pies for it and I got alot of compliments on them. There was 1 left over to bring home just for us!! Yum!!! The kids got to see Santa there and I got a couple of cute pics of them visiting with him. I love watching their faces this year with Christmas. It is so magical and exciting. We had a great evening and alot of people were in attendance. They had a great dinner and program. We really enjoyed it.
In my non-blogging mode last month, I totally forgot about Nicole losing her first tooth!! We freaked out of course, because we never expected a 4 year old to lose a tooth and thought for sure one of the boys had knocked it out. LOL. But we had an oral surgeon look at her and he examined the tooth and Nicole and said it was a natural lose!! So here is a pic of her toothless!! Anyhow, that is it for today, hopefully I can keep this blogging streak up.
Friday, December 07, 2007
It's beginning to look alot like Christmas...
all over my house!! Okay, I took some pics and I am ready to share them. Just remember I LOVE this time of year!
This tree is the main tree in the house. It is just a modge podge of ornaments. I buy the kids a new ornament every year and when they are grown and married, they will get each of their ornaments. They look forward to helping pick out their ornament every year.
This next tree is my Kitchen tree. I had always wanted a tree in my kitchen and a few years ago I started working on it. I made some permanent gingerbread ornaments for it, totally not edible as they are made with glue, but they look and smell so real. I added some little baskets, small rolling pins, small antique metal cookie cutters, and small kitchen utensils and pots and pans.
Next is my new tree I just did the other day. I had seen the idea at a craft show I went to. This is the one in the giant ceramic mug. I am really please with the way it turned out.
I also have an Americana tree. This one is in my office which is also Americana decor. I did this tree the Christmas after 9/11.
The newest one is my tree in my master bedroom. This one was my hubby's idea!!
I also have a trio of smaller trees behind my love seat, these are my funky trees. They have bright, fun and funky ornaments on them. They match nothing in my house, but I love them!!
I did my first hybrid project this week. I altered a Barn Star, thanks to inspiration from Janet (As You Wish at DST). I used my kit Cinnamon Sticks and printed out the papers and modge podged them to the star. I am really happy with the way it turned out and could really get addicted to this hybrid thing!!
On tuesday they had the tree lighting ceremony here on the post where we are living. My oldest Tyler had to perform there with the middle school band. I was so proud of him. He plays the trombone and has really come along way with it! They held it indoors because of how cold it was. I was really glad for that. The little ones got to see Santa and I got a pic of them with him. They were so excited and not as scared as they used to be.
We got our first snowfall of the season here in Maryland on Wednesday. The kids were so excited and Skyler kept peeking out the window saying, "Is is deep enough yet?" He was dying to go outside and play in it. We finally went out and found the neighbors out there too. While she and I talked I kept getting hit with snowballs from Skyler. It was beautiful to see and this is earlier than what we got last year. We ended up getting 5 inches and the next day they ended up doing a snow day for all the schools here.
Well that is about it for my catch up post. Two posts in 1 day, man I am on a roll!! LOL!! Hopefully I can do better at this blogging thing. Have a great weekend!!
This tree is the main tree in the house. It is just a modge podge of ornaments. I buy the kids a new ornament every year and when they are grown and married, they will get each of their ornaments. They look forward to helping pick out their ornament every year.
This next tree is my Kitchen tree. I had always wanted a tree in my kitchen and a few years ago I started working on it. I made some permanent gingerbread ornaments for it, totally not edible as they are made with glue, but they look and smell so real. I added some little baskets, small rolling pins, small antique metal cookie cutters, and small kitchen utensils and pots and pans.
Next is my new tree I just did the other day. I had seen the idea at a craft show I went to. This is the one in the giant ceramic mug. I am really please with the way it turned out.
I also have an Americana tree. This one is in my office which is also Americana decor. I did this tree the Christmas after 9/11.
The newest one is my tree in my master bedroom. This one was my hubby's idea!!
I also have a trio of smaller trees behind my love seat, these are my funky trees. They have bright, fun and funky ornaments on them. They match nothing in my house, but I love them!!
I did my first hybrid project this week. I altered a Barn Star, thanks to inspiration from Janet (As You Wish at DST). I used my kit Cinnamon Sticks and printed out the papers and modge podged them to the star. I am really happy with the way it turned out and could really get addicted to this hybrid thing!!
On tuesday they had the tree lighting ceremony here on the post where we are living. My oldest Tyler had to perform there with the middle school band. I was so proud of him. He plays the trombone and has really come along way with it! They held it indoors because of how cold it was. I was really glad for that. The little ones got to see Santa and I got a pic of them with him. They were so excited and not as scared as they used to be.
We got our first snowfall of the season here in Maryland on Wednesday. The kids were so excited and Skyler kept peeking out the window saying, "Is is deep enough yet?" He was dying to go outside and play in it. We finally went out and found the neighbors out there too. While she and I talked I kept getting hit with snowballs from Skyler. It was beautiful to see and this is earlier than what we got last year. We ended up getting 5 inches and the next day they ended up doing a snow day for all the schools here.
Well that is about it for my catch up post. Two posts in 1 day, man I am on a roll!! LOL!! Hopefully I can do better at this blogging thing. Have a great weekend!!
Is it December Already?
Wow! Where has that time gone. It just seems like yesterday since I last posted and here it is December already and Christmas and the New Year are almost here. We had a great Thanksgiving with just us at home and it was nice and non stressful. We stuffed ourselves on Turkey and Pumpkin Pie and I don't feel guilty about it!! LOL!! Of course we put up Christmas decorations the week before Thanksgiving, but that was late for us. We normally have them up the first week of November. I got my 3rd big tree this year and I am so excited. It was actually my hubby's idea. Our Master Bedroom is big so he thought a tree would be good in there, so I got one!! I got a 7 foot, sorta skinny tree with white lights and decorated it with red and gold decorations to match our room. I also made another kitchen Christmas tree. This one I got a giant red with a swowman scene, ceramic mug and saucer at Michael's (I think it is a planter) and put a small Christmas tree in it and decorated it with small snowball ornaments and snowflakes and then tied red bows on it and white lights. I am happy with the way it turned out. I will post pics in a day or two. My camera battery is dead and I need to recharge it. I have also been busy creating lots of Christmas kits!! I will also be going exclusive at Scrapbook Bytes after the 15th of this month. I am so excited for this. Well I think that is all for today, got alot of things I need to get done. You can check out all these kits at my store at Scrapbook Bytes
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