Christmas Decorations

Welcome to our home freshly decorated for Christmas!

When you walk in the door, my favorite thing of all our decorations is sitting in the entry way. I LOVE this Nativity Scene. Also, on this table, is our Christmas card holder.

In the dining room, we have our big window decorated so you can see our Christmas spirit as you drive by.

The living room is SO cozy with our Christmas decorations up and a warm fire in the fireplace.

The girls have their Christmas trees up in their room.

As you can see, we are MORE than ready for Christmas!

Redneck Vegas

This past weekend lots of our friends jetted off to fabulous locations. Rachel and her crew went to Philly. Tara was glaming it up in Vegas. So...we decided we needed to take a little trip out of town. We headed to where else, BRANSON!

Saturday morning, we loaded up and drove to Branson. Our first stop was Bass Pro Shop. I am not sure why we decided to go there (maybe because I needed to sneak away and purchase a few things for the hunter in our lives), but the place was SWAMPED! I have seen in busy, but never like this. It was nuts. We had fun looking around and forcing Catherine to put dead animals on her head. :)

We had lunch at Landry's. It was good, but the girls were SO restless for our next stop...SILVER DOLLAR CITY, BABY! They have a huge lights display, parade and Christmas train ride. It was worth enduring the cold weather. We had a blast!

Whoops...It's gonna be random!

How is it possible that it's the 9th day of December and I haven't blogged yet this month!? Oopsie! :)

So, to celebrate my first December post, let's do it up, Random Boni Style, shall we?

• A few days ago, we had our first snow of the year. It caught me COMPLETELY off guard and I realized I was NOT prepared for this yet. The girls were excited until we told them they had to go to school. (A pic from my office window)

• Catherine is doing GREAT on her potty training. She wears panties all day every day and rarely has an accident. She's still sleeping in a pull up. I think it's because I am lazy and don't want to get up a deal with it if she pees in her bed.

• I am finishing up all my Christmas shopping for the year. I did TONS online and that made it SO much easier.

• We had family pictures last weekend. IT.WAS.FREEZING! The girls hung in there and Faith Ames is just amazing. Here is a sneak peek!

• Have you ever noticed how when wet Cheerios dry, they are like concrete? I am considering marketing these as a high powered Spackle.

• I was kind of "Grinching" the past week or so as Christmas gets closer. I'm not sure what my deal was, but I was just dreading doing all of the Christmas things we usually do leading up to Christmas. But, I toughened up and got the Christmas trees up and decorated. Here is a picture of the living room tree (before the mantel and other decor was done). I am totally out of my funk...I mean, how can THIS not snap you back? (More pics to come of all the gorgeous decor!)

• We have lots of fun things coming up over the next few weeks. This weekend, we are going to Branson to see the lights and visit Santa. (I'll be a better blogger too!)

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Thanksmas 2011

What a wonderful, family-filled Thanksgiving we had this year!?

Wednesday, the girls and I headed to Hot Springs to visit my parents. Travis was already down south deer hunting and we were meeting him later the week.

The girls (and my parents) favorite place to eat is KJs. They go there AT LEAST once a week. So, of course, we ate there Wednesday night. Catherine helped set up tables and even got to go into the kitchen to check things out.

Thursday morning, we got up and headed to DeQueen to have Thanksgiving lunch with Travis's Mimi. It's always so fun to go visit, fill our tummies and visit all the animals on the farm. Catherine was especially in love with Eric (Travis's cousin). Emma wanted to ride the horse home and Hannah wanted no part in being inside the pasture gates.

Thursday night, we went back to Hot Springs for Thanksgiving dinner with my parents. It was so good! We also celebrated my mom's birthday. We tried to surprise her, but I am not sure we succeeded. We also played a super fun dice game called "Left Right Center". Hannah was the big winner!

Friday, we went out to Mt. Harbor for Burton Family Thanksmas (Thanksgiving/Christmas). We watched the hogs game, ate and played LRC. Saturday was much of this same, but we threw in dirty Santa. As usual, it was a good time with everyone!

Sunday, we headed home. But, not before we picked up Jack from T's mom's. We are dog sitting him for a few days. Three little girls were SO glad to see him! :)

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!