12.02.10 Purging

Today my mom came over to help me go through my closet.  It was rediculously overflowing. I couldn't jam a single hanger more into it. I decided it was a good time for a thorough purge of old and unused clothes.  We went through everything and I managed to fill 13 large trash bags with gently used clothes, shoes, and purses for Good Will. It was very freeing and I hope others will get some use from my discards.

12.01.10 Christmas Lights

We finally finished putting up the Christmas lights on our house.  I'm still disappointed that the snowman on the roof doesn't light up, but everything else looks good.

11.30.10

Today I found out my first layout completed and submitted at Let's Scrap made it as a featured photo! Yeah, how exciting.  It is the 2nd one titled "Hike it Up".

11.29.10 Birthday Pineapple

We finally used my birthday coupon for Benihana's tonight.  The food was delicious and they brought me a birthday pinapple with a candle on top.  They also took our photo.

Blog Candy - December Prima Product Pick

Check out the Prima Product Pick for December here for your chance to win some yummy candy!  I just love Prima products, don't you?

Frosted Designs Blog Hop

Frosted Designs is having a super fun blog hop with lots of great inspiration and yummy candy!  Check it out here.  This is one of the prizes for blog hop: 

11.28.10 Christmas Lights

Today we put the Christmas lights up on house.  Juan wanted colored lights for the roof this year so we bought new LED lights....did you know you can string like a million of those together on the same circuit?  WOW, I was so excited because we usually spend days with tripped circuit breakers and blown fuses because we overload the circuits.  Last year Juan bought me a light up parasailing snowman for Christmas, little did we know that it was NOT pre-assembled!  It took us over 3 hours to put it together and then once Juan got it on the roof we realized that it did not work.  Juan has tried everything and not one light works on the silly thing.  I was so disappointed.  :(

11.27.10 Christmas Decorations

Today I spent the day putting out our Christmas decorations in the living room.  I didn't get everything done, but I did get the mantle completed and my new 12 days of Christmas ornament display up! 

11.26.10 First Freeze

The weather forcast for this evening indicates that our first freeze is coming.  We moved all of the plants inside to the spare bedroom.  There are quite a few.

11.25.10 Thanksgiving Dinner

We have been very blessed this year.  Unfortunately our dinner for 13 turned into dinner for 4 as quite a few people cancelled at the last minute; but the food was all delicious, if I do say so myself!  It was great to have both my mother and Juan's parents in our home to celebrate.  This is the only day of the entire year that we have the chance to cook for our families and that is so very important to me.  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and I hope your families are blessed!