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This is my new tradition. Spend less, give more.

Merry Christmas!!!

Jamie: after he was told he could only open one present on Christmas eve.

He got over it. The boys showing off their Christmas eve jammies.
I got a new light box! Muh haha!!!
My little paleontologist.

Grady in his hat. (It almost stayed on half a second)

Happy Holidays!!!

Easy Peesy Gifts that are Cheesy

Sorry, I'm in a rhyming mood right now. Just wanted to share a few gifts that I made the girls this year. They commemorate strange things that we dressed up as in October; kitty cats, pirates, and poncho wearing mustache men. There were other identities but these were the easiest to put on mugs with ceramic paint. Then I filled the mugs with candy and voila! Gift complete. Jamie was with me when I got the mugs and he found this little tiny mug (lower right) that was just his size. How could I say no? So I snagged one for Con too and they decorated their own cocoa mugs!

First Aid Kit - Hard Believer

Christmas came a little early becuase I stumbeled upon this song. enjoy!

Connor Cuteness

I needed a cute way that I could send Con's Gramy in Texas all of his school pictures. But I knew that I wanted to somehow be able to keep adding to it as I got more. So this is what I came up with. Little frames that hang. It turned out so well I made three more for Christmas presents. One for his dad, my mom, and me!

So Handsome!!!

Crazy Busy

I know everyone is crazy busy this time of year so I'm taking two seconds out to show you what I've been up to.

I'm wrapping the Santa gifts in brown craft paper and tying green and red yarn and these awesome pom poms on. I made the biggest mess making these! Lets just say they started off much bigger and I went a little scissor happy.

We roasted chestnuts (they taste like potatoes- I was totally thrown by that) made fudge. I got the presents to our Texas family mailed as well as our Christmas cards. I feel very accomplished :) Hope all your preparations are going well! XOXO

Crafty

These are a few things i've been working on for Christmas. I made these little toadstools and the first thing Con says was "Those are from Mario!" He meant the game...

Made this hat for Grady and I must say it's one of my favorites. I think I might make one for me.

My little Christmas ninjas. These are for the boys in their stockings. I thought they turned out pretty cute. I was thinking that I might need to make a little story to go along with them. I mean what is a Christmas ninja really?