Goodbye 2011

Merry Christmas Eve

Hope everyone is having a fabulous day with family and friends. I had my first newborn photography session with this little man last week, can't wait to share them on the blog next week!

Presents under the tree

It's Here!

After 2 1/2 months of waiting the Daniel Tosh show is tonight! I've never been to a comedy show, so I am super excited. Time to go get ready...

Sad, but true

Yes. It's true. These cookie jars are EMPTY. How terrible! Even worse? They sit atop my microwave that's broken. It feels a little white trash to write that. It's been broken for a couple weeks now. I'm digging myself deeper here.

A wreath for the kitchen

Two-fer

Missed yesterday's post. Sheesh. I'm not doing so hot on this daily December post thing!

Oopsie

This is make-up for yesterday's post! These giant ornaments are suspended from the ceiling. Sometimes my dog randomly barks at them.

Believe

A Pink Tree Lighting

Today on the way home from the bus stop Celeste asked if I'd like to go to her "tree event". I said sure. She said "I'll put you on the list". And she did. She made a little guest list. Blew up balloons. Braided my hair and put a tiara on.
And ta-da! Her pretty little pink tree in her bedroom...

Peppermint kisses

So good the jar is already half gone!

Paper chain santas

Stars and lights

These stars and lights are surrounding the entrance from our dining room into the kitchen

December third

Well it's day three of December and I finished the advent calendar. Better late than never, right? I've always wanted to have one but have never thought of making my own. A big thank you to Pinterest for inspiring me this year! Celeste is at her dads house this weekend, so I'm leaving the past days ornaments up so she can do it when she comes home. She helped me make some of the tags too. I wanted to decorate some tags for gift wrapping too, but I ran out. Better order more soon, Christmas will creep up on me before I know it.

Flameless candles

Love the soft flicker and glow of these candles without the worry of one of my crazy animals starting a fire. I had a cat that almost caused a house fire twice. Once by knocking a mask off the wall into a candle and it immediately burst into flames half way up the wall. Scary. The second time she knocked a lamp onto my bed and it melted and burned through my pillow when I finally smelled it in the other room.

Christmas cottage

Dear blog readers, I am so very sorry that I didn't do practically any posts for November! I wanted to at least do a November recap, but with two weeks left in the semester it's crunch time.
So I want to try out a daily post of something for December. Not much writing, mostly pictures, so I hope I find the time to stick with this goal. Speaking of goals, any resolution planning happening out there?