"It was Christmas Eve night at the poor house..."

My favorite singing duo of all time from my favorite show of all time.
Enjoy :)

Baby, It's Cold Outside!

We were at a store the other day and we passed a little girl who said to her mom "Boy, mom, that girl really likes pink!"

Ya think?

Her Highness' Royal Quarters

It's taken almost 6 months, but I think we finally have Lili's room done.

She still wants pink walls, but we really don't feel like taking everything out and painting. And, who knows how long she'll really like pink......heh, knowing her....forever !

I cannot tell you how THRILLED I am that she's such a girly-girl. Thank goodness for her, or I wouldn't have any place for 1/2 my stuff that I was able to put in here. (Jeff told me if I hung another plate in the kitchen, he'd kill me....and considering how much Lili loves food, I think they're a good fit!)

I found this mirror at Goodwill for 25 bucks. Well, if you know me, you know I waited till 1/2 off day and got it for $12.50! A can of spray paint, and Lili loves, loves, loves it (and it matches her walls exactly. A point we kept stressing over and over!)

Most of her room is the same as it was in our other house. A little tweaking here and there, but it's basically the same look. I do miss the white wainscotting, but if we're not gonna even paint, I'm not gonna hold out for wainscotting!

I love my Big Lots Martha Stewart lanterns...a little nod to the Chinese thing. (even though Lili is NOT CHINESE! She will not even entertain the thought. Sometimes, she'll make her eyes into slits and say "There, now I Chinee." Corker.)

Since Lili loves mirrors (and herself) so much, here's one whole wall dedicated to her reflection. And I kid you not when I tell you it's her favorite part of her room. I'll find her in there for hours looking at herself and singing.

I still have some little things to do. Little tweaking here and there, but we finally got all of her things out of boxes and her room is clear of all packing/moving stuff.

I can't believe it took so long....I guess it's because her room was my favorite room in our other house and I just couldn't quite figure this one out. I'm still not 100% satisfied with it, but she likes it, so that's what counts.

The princess is pleased.

Oh Snap!

Pleeeease tell me that someone else understands this.
It CRACKS ME UP! Jeff thinks I'm nuts.
If you remember Biz Markie, 1989 and Yo!MTVRaps, you're in tune with me.
Reminds me of 1989 at Ball State....
(if you need a refresher, search YouTube for Biz Markie/Just a Friend) hee! hee!

If you're getting a Christmas card from me, DON'T LOOK!

Ok, so I know you're looking.
Everytime you say "Don't look!" it's guaranteed that someone will.

Just don't come crying to me when you get your card and you're all underwhelmed!

I have some rather amusing takes from the 'photo shoot' (and I use that term loosely). I'll have to post my perfectly charming, oh-so-photogenic-children pictures sometime.

I think this one turned out OK.

And now that I'm looking at it, Brett's tie matches Lili's dress perfectly . Huh, how about that?

This is from Christmas 2007.

Just 2 years ago.

Amazing. Lili was only home for about 3 months by this time.

Her hair was about ear length.

Now to see her with her long hair and her glowing smile is just something.

And the fact that she looks 15 all of a sudden. What's up with that? Yeesh.

"It smells like mushrooms and everyone looks like they want to hurt me."

Just watched Elf, as we do every year now.
It's an instant classic and everytime we watch it, we find something new to laugh at.
Cute, cute movie!
If you haven't seen it, enjoy the clip.
If you have seen it, enjoy the clip!

It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas

Never had an open concept house before. Kinda cool.

Had some extra mistletoe garland. I like it so much, I'm not going to want to take it down.

Woo-eee! We finally have an "open staircase"! Who cares that it's only 4 steps, we paid extra for it just so I could do this at Christmas.

OK, first time with a fireplace, so I went a little crazy. So exciting.

Here's my first Cricut creation. You can't see it very well, but I took gift tags and spelled out "Merry Christmas" on them, then hung them from floral wire above the fireplace (see previous picture).

Not bad for the first time.

I know, I know, not one picture of one kid. They're fine, I swear.

As a matter of fact, I need to start posing them for our annual Christmas card photo.

I swore to myself that I was going to go the professional route this year, but it's already NOVEMBER 30TH!

So, you'll be seeing LOTS of pictures as I try posing them in different locations, in different ways, trying to get THE shot.

I can't believe there's only 25 more days till Christmas.

ack!

Bad, Bad Blogger.....

I just realized I haven't been posting so much lately.
I also realized I haven't taken any pictures of Lili lately. We went to TWO Thanksgivings and I didn't even take a camera to either. Ho hum. Just haven't felt like saying much lately, I guess. And what's with no Lili pictures? I don't know. Guess I'm just forgetful or disinterested, or something. Hopefully I'll snap out of it over the next couple of weeks and get some nice Christmas-y photos to share.

Speaking of Christmas, we've got our house decorated.
Lots of fun decorating a different house, but also confusing and time consuming. I knew where everything went for the last 10 years and now things don't fit, or I'm tired of them, or I want to do something different.
I think I have it all figured out, although I keep tweaking it everytime I sit and look at it for any length of time.

And, last but not least, I am blissfully unemployed ! I know that sounds kind of bad in light of the economy and all, but you know how I've felt and I'm happy to say, I'm GONE!
Originally I was going to stick it out till spring break, then it turned into sucking it up till Christmas, finally, I was out of there by Thanksgiving.
I've never had a job or been in an environment where I felt so unwanted and disrespected. I guess I've been spoiled (yes, I know, Kelly, Mary and Lisa!), but it was really hard to take. I'm just grateful I had the ability to leave. It was miserable. I thank God that I'm outta there. whew.

So, now that I'm home to enjoy my life once again, I'm hoping to get lots of crafting and baking and FUN done. Meemaw and Peepaw got me a Cricut Expression for my birthday and I hope to make a cute Christmas banner for our mantel as project #1....watch out, Kim :)

Hope you all had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving full of continued blessings!