2012....a great year to buy or sell a house!

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Christmas in Review

Baking Cookies for Santa....check out Clyde's apron!

Watching Mimi ride the train

Tinsel hides with Baby Jesus

Christmas Eve

Note to Santa

Christmas Dinner Tablesetting

Santa brought clothes for Mimi

Loading up toys from Santa

And a good time was had by all. Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas!

Christmas Card Outtakes!

It can be hard to capture that perfect moment for the Christmas card...here are some of the attempts....

I almost went with this one.....it is not too bad.

Believe me there were worse ones...eyes closed....mouths open. But I couldn't do it, I couldn't post for the world (or the 10 people that read this blog) to see.

Christmas Cards in Review 2011

Last year, I did a post with all of our Christmas Card pictures from years past. Here's a quick review and our card picture from this year.



2005 (Not sure what we did in 2004, 2006)


2007


2008


2009


2010

2011

It only took two different photo shoots to get this picture and Camille is barely cracking a smile and Clyde calls this look "sad Clyde." Tomorrow I will post some outtakes! 

Weekend Recap & Menu Planner

We hosted a dinner party on Friday night. It was fun and I actually used all my wedding gifts from 7.5 years ago!

We are almost ready for Christmas! I can't believe it is a week away....

Here is this week's menu planner....

Sunday - French Onion Beef Stew and Salad

Monday - Taco Salad, Beans & Rice

Tuesday - Chicken Broccoli Casserole

Wednesday - Chicken Quesadilla, Beans & Rice

Thursday - Turkey Burgers & Fries

Christmas Decorating Part 4 - Wreath Making

Image found here

I wanted to spruce up my wreath this year. I found the above image on pinterest.com and used it for inspiration. I had all the ribbon & balls from previous Christmases. I bought gold sticks and leaves from Ben Franklin.

And for our back door, I saw this cute wreath on Emily A .Clark's blog. I had some leftover fabric that didn't work out for Camille's Christmas pajamas.

Photo credit: Emily A Clark

So I used it to make this.....

Not sure I am totally in love but it will do! (Excuse the door...I want to paint it or get a new door or something!)

PS....I did make the pajamas for Camille just with new fleece fabric. She hasn't worn them except to pose for this picture. She claims they are itchy! I gave up on Clyde's and shipped the fabric out for them to be made.

PPS...She was the pajama designer and wanted a red nightgown with a Santa on the front. We went for Santa buttons.

Christmas Decorating Part 3 - Card Tree

Image found here.

I love sending and receiving Christmas cards. I saw this cute image on Pinterest.com and decided to make a version of my own.

Can't wait to keep adding to it as we get more cards.

Christmas Decorating Part 2



Sign & garland are from the Dollar Tree, Santa on the left was $1 from the Dollar Tree last year, Angel was a Christmas gift from my friend Ashley, Red Christmas ball hand-me-down from my mom.

Holiday treats cookie jar given to us by my mother-in-law.

Our elf, Tinsel has made his way back this year.