Love my gifts

I totally have to brag for a bit because my mother in law bought me 3 end tables for my living room and I love them. I feel like I have a real living room now!! I am so excited! I got some vases at my brothers house for dirty santa and I bought some rocks and "dead twigs" and they look fab. :) Just had to brag a bit.

Christmas pics

Here are some Christmas pics...I can't figure out how to make the pics go below the words dangit!! So there are no captions....sorry :(

Wiped out

We had our last Christmas gathering tonight and I am exhausted! Tomorrow should be a nice relaxing day...but not happening. I am going to psych myself out to get everything all cleaned up nice like it was Christmas Eve. Before the chaos happened....well, before Santa appeared, and we had numerous items strewn about the living room and I started cooking for Christmas with my mom...my kitchen is such a disaster...and I hate cleaning the kitchen....wish me luck. I will hopefully finish early enough to download my pictures tomorrow :)

Luckily, if I don't finish completely tomorrow like I plan, this week is a short week so yippee!! I am off Wednesday, Thursday and Friday again this week for New Years. I am getting spoiled with the short weeks ;)

Best. Friday. Ever.

Not many people are blessed enough to have a boss like mine. Or coworkers. Today, instead of going to work, we met up at 8:00 a.m. and drove to Texarkana to do some shopping. All day. I got home at almost 10:00 p.m.!! I had an absolute blast. We ate breakfast on the way out, had lunch (which included the largest margaritas ever and neither my boss nor myself are much of a drinker so we had a pretty good buzz) and we laughed and talked and goofed off and shopped and had the best time. We are planning on doing it next year but it will be probably be somewhere else and we will likely stay the night. We will see. It will be like a girls time out. Loved it. It was very very much needed.

Oh, and in case you didn't get the memo...CHRISTMAS IS A WEEK AWAY!! WOO HOO!!

So this is Christmas...

Christmas is almost here!! YAY!! I love this time of the year. The magic, the miracles, the happiness, the general feeling of the Season. God is good. Its just so important to me that my children understand its not about the presents, even though we do get into that, but more importantly about celebrating life. We are celebrating the most important birthday in our lives. The birth of Jesus Christ. We are celebrating the most miraculous things in our live and spending time with our families and that is the most important thing in the world to me. I have so many people I know suffering and I have seen miracles happen this holiday season to those that mean so much to me. So remember to remember THE REASON FOR THE SEASON. Merry Christmas all!!

Lovin Every Minute of It

Its getting to be that time. I love holidays. This is my fave time of the year. It starts with Halloween and just keeps on rolling into the new year!! We usually spend Thanksgiving with my aunt, but since my cousin is having her first baby in Utah she is going to be with her. Not that I blame her. If I could, I would probably try to tag along! ha ha ha!! So, its Thanksgiving with my siblings and mom. And I get to cook alot for Thanksgiving. Which I don't usually do, but I am this year!! :) So excited about that too. I usually cook the majority of Christmas Dinner, but Thanksgiving food is different so I am excited about it. I sat down with my sister in law to be the other night and created our menu and appointed jobs to folks and that sort of thing... :) Yay!! I will post our menu a little closer to time. I can't wait!!