Merry Christmas

MERRY CHRISTMAS from our home to yours.






I hope you all have a very merry and blessed Christmas.






"For unto us a child is born"


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A Shopping Weekend

This past weekend I headed
down to Dayton to spend the weekend with my mom. I had tons of Christmas shopping to get done and well lets face it Lufkin doesn't have the greatest shopping in the world. Friday night I drove to my moms and stayed at the house by myself. She was in Houston at her work Christmas party, so it was just me and the dogs. I enjoyed my quiet evening by myself. It's nice to have those quiet evenings alone every now and then especially during this busy holiday season.

I woke up early Saturday morning and we shopped till we dropped. We literally shopped all day and I got almost all of my shopping done. I still have a few more things to pick up but overall I'm pretty much done.
On Sunday I surprised my mom with tickets to go see The Nutcracker. It was an early Christmas present. We used to always go when I was young, so I was excited to go. It always puts me in the Christmas spirit!!

Me and mom snuggled in the bed with the dogs. :)


Going up to the Wortham Center


The gorgeous Christmas tree


Gingerbread house





The stage before it started


The orchestra. I love the music ;)





Tonight Todd and I are headed to Dayton for my dads ordination. He is getting ordained as a priest in the episcopal church. This is a huge accomplishment and I am so proud of him. God has truly worked miracles. It has been a long journey and he has finally made it. It's such an exciting time for our family especially during this holiday season. I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas.

Xoxo

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A Little Secret to Share....

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Christmas Home Tour 2010

Well I finally had time to take some pictures of all of our Christmas decorations. We Todd started decorating our house in mid November. We were going to be gone for almost 2 weeks in a row at the end of November beginning of December so we knew we had to get started early. It takes him about 2 weeks or longer to decorate the house. I keep saying him because….well because he does it ALL!! Yes I know I am a very lucky girl. My hubby LOVES Christmas. Its his favorite time of the year, so I just let him have it. This year we have 4 trees up. Crazy I know but now there is one in every room! The only tree I decorate is my black and white Christmas tree. Its my girlie tree and I just love it. I still need to buy a few more ornaments though. We like to pack our trees down with ornaments where you can barely see green. Yes we are CRAZY CHRISTMAS people. Every room in our house has a little Christmas in it and that’s just the way I like it. So, without further ado. Welcome to our home. Sit back relax and enjoy the tour : )

 

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A few of my favorite ornaments. We try to get an ornament for every place we go and so far we have kept it up.

Todd collects Nutcrackers and we keep them out all year round.

Top of the fridge.

Love getting Christmas cards in the mail everyday.

Love this willow tree nativity. It sits in our guest bathroom.

 

And last but not least our 4th tree in out bedroom. I love having a little Christmas tree in our bedroom. This is the first time we have put this tree up.

 

I hope you enjoyed the tour. We have alot of other little Christmas touches as well but I didn’t want to bore you with so many pictures.

PS: Don’t forget to shop Stella and Dot for your Christmas gifts. The last day to order for standard shipping is this Friday December 17th. You can use promo code SHARE10 for 20% off one item. Also check out Erin's blog she is giving away a pair of Stella and Dot earrings. :)

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I promise to post about our ski trip too. Lots of fun pictures coming up next!!

Santa came early

Santa came a little early this year.........

Todd and I have been talking about getting new living room furniture.....well.....for.....forever ago. We have been wanting to update out look for a while now. We (aka Todd) found the perfect couch at a local furniture store here. Every piece of furniture we have purchased for our house has been purchased from Castleberry's Furniture. We love going in there and looking around, and not to mention we are good friends with the owners. They go to church with us. :) So we finally found the perfect couch, that was the easy part. The hard part was trying to pick 2 chairs that we actually agreed on. I wanted something fun and unexpected and Todd wanted something a little contemporary but really more on the traditional side. We found a set of chairs we really liked and then came the hard part. Picking the fabric, you can pick any fabric you want. Talk about trying to make a decision. UGH!! We came across a leopard/cheetah print fabric and I knew that was it. I had my mind set. The hard part was trying to convince Todd it would look good.

So who do you think won? I should say in nicer terms Todd agreed the leopard chairs would look great. :)

Close up of the chair.....AHH SWOON!! :)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO US!!

(All of these pictures are taken with my IPhone so excuse the quality)

What do you think? We LOVE it and we are so glad that our living room is finally coming together and it looks updated and fun and youthful!! We are still in debates about getting another couch where the 2 occasional chairs are (the leather ones) because we had 2 couches in the room before and that is where Todd laid down every night to watch television. Right now we are happy with the set up but we may eventually be getting another couch. Next we need a rug to finish off the room and it will be complete. I just love redecorating a room and getting new furniture, don't you?

Up next on the decorating front is our bedroom. We are thinking about painting it for the....umm...well 3rd time. haha. Yes we like to change our bedroom color A LOT!! We are also thinking of getting this bedding. I love the earth tones and am really loving grey right now. We want to paint the room a greenish/grayish color. Its very soothing.

PS: We had a wonderful ski trip to Breckenridge and I will do a post about that soon. Expect lots of pictures :)