Xmas Spirit 2012

 

We really outdid ourselves with lights this year. We haven't been the type to really go outside of the house with decorating for Xmas. The most I used to do was put a wreath on the door, hang shiny plastic ornaments from a tree, and frame the bay window with lights. We decided to slowly add to our festive lights by buying one thing on sale after Xmas every year. Last year we started this with the little mini deer. We'll try to find his mate this time around. This year K found the light up candy canes and snowflakes at the dollar store. Score! :)

 

This is also the first year together we got a real tree. K grew up with real trees and this is my first ever.

 

I love my little fiber optic tree my mom in law found for me many years ago. It goes up and gets plugged in every year. I will be sad the day it stops working.

 

The spirit stays strong within me. I started my salt dough ornaments for the holidays. O likes the idea of them but still has a hard time finding a lot of interest in them for too long. I figure I will paint all of them this year with a base color and let her either finger print decorations on them or use objects to imprint different shapes of colors onto them to make it a little different. I've already made two batches of ornaments. One I took to a friends so our daughters could paint together and the second batch just for us to work on and give away as keepsakes.

I'm trying to not stress about anything Xmas related this year. So far, so good.

Coffee Dates & Halloween Plates

I met up with one of my fav girls, Merci. A girlfriend date was much needed. We had planned for fro yo and coffee. However, we never got around for fro yo. We never left Starbucks. Coffee was deliciousness and we fed our sweet tooth too.



I could have stayed there all day catching up with M. If I had my pants would no longer fit. Probably a good thing we finally left. ;)

After, I hit up the Turner's casa to spend a little bit of time with Molly T. Mostly, so old gal could get a bathroom break.

I checked in to casa Momo and soon left for Hobby Lobby. It was so hard to not buy up everything that caught my eye.

I bought some letters to join a large 'M' on the wall.



We bought these very fun porcelain plates:



I told K we had to leave and now before I bought anything else, especially for Oli's room.

I had a lot of indulgences today, which isn't a bad thing. :)

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xmas fish

It's not like I'm really into fish or anything but for some reason I loooove this goldfish ornament I found.
(click on the wee fishy)