I had a very Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! We really bought each other too much and next year we need to scale back a little. I had some good surprises!

I LOVE my new Tignanello purse! My mom sure knows this girl loves a good purse.
I love my Nascar pets calendar! Mom knows this girl loves Nascar.

I got mom this Savannah travel guide book for our trip! Paula Deen here we come!

I ordered this super cool book from Snapfish for my aunt with our Las Vegas pictures in it. It turned out really cool!

Me and mommy

My city aunt :)

All the beautiful ladies!

I hope that you had a very Merry Christmas too!

Lots of loot

Well this teacher cleaned up! This is all the fun stuff I got from my kiddos and man I got some good stuff!

One of my cute new clipboards!

Another cute clipboard!

I'm sure thankful for everything I got and am thankful for 2 weeks off!

Great friends and great gifts

This weekend mom and I went to celebrate Maw Maw's birthday. Mom gave her the lovely wreath we made at church to decorate the mantel. Thanks to mr. evil sinus I was feeling oh so lethargic this weekend.

My mom had a creative spurt and made this cool gift! Potpourri and lights in the vase and ta-da!

This weekend I also got to visit my soul sista Julia.

My other mommy :)

And Julia being the super spectacular friend that she is got me this super cute girly hammer as my "house warming gift" and this wicked awesome lunchkit as my birthday present! A bit belated, but better late than never! I just love a good monogram gift and this one rocks! Thanks Julia! Love ya girl!

Happy birthday Maw Maw!

Say hello to the best Maw Maw a girl could ever have. This wonderful lady celebrates birthday number 76 today. I am so blessed to have such an amazing lady in my life. She has done so much for me that I could never give back to her enough. She is one tough woman! Here's to many more years Maw Maw! Love you!

Crazy Texas weather

Well, I've got to catch up from the weekend. This is me and my dear friend Betsy. She came to visit me Saturday and spent the night. We watched the Christmas parade and went to Journey to Bethlehem at the fairgrounds. We got back, popped popcorn and sang along to Hairspray. I love to have girl time!

Me in my mismatched pjs next to my tree. Don't you love my Spongebob wrapping paper?

The tree in all it's glory and the many presents.

And today we got snow! Old blue is all covered, poor thing doesn't have a garage.

Other randoms from today:

-We had an early release day and had a motivational speaker named LaDonna Gatlin speak to us all the the middle school, she was great and she's the sister to the Gatlin brothers. Ok and everyone was making fun of me for not knowing who they were.

-My voice is hoarse and I sound like a man, or I squeak when laughing.

-We have 7 more days of school left!

-Tomorrow we get to take the kids to hear the high school band's Christmas concert, should be fun!

-Tomorrow is my wonderful Maw Maw's birthday!

Stay warm friends!

My favorite things

Thrifty Decor Chick is sharing her favorite things and now I am too!

My favorite t.v. show right now is Jon and Kate Plus 8. Their kids are just so darn cute and I love how they're brutally honest with each other!

Favorite song at the moment is So What by Pink http://new.music.yahoo.com/Pink/videos/view/So-What--184533736

My favorite new lotion is Bath and Body Works Velvet Tuberose, oh man it smells awesome!

Favorite new purchase is my new digital camera! Well mine has been alright, but I hate how heavy it is and how it uses AA batteries. I wanted a skinnier version that used the lithium ion battery. Well, QVC had a super deal on this awesome fujifilm and I just had to get that for myself for Christmas!

Well those are just a few of my new favorite things. What are some of your new favorites?

Ren Fest Fun

On Friday I got to spend some time with my dear friends Allison and JD Humber as well as Jamie Pope and Alli's bro Brett. We had a grand time at the renaissance festival, and thankfully it did not rain on us! I think ren fest is now an every year tradition with us and I look forward to many more years of fun!

Alli in the swing
Me in the swing

Ok if you are a Harry Potter fan, like my Emily, you would know this is a hippogriff. I was a little too excited to see this. And yes Emily I thought of you when I saw it. :)

Thank you God for good friends and good times with them!

It's beginning to look like a lot like Christmas

My very own first Christmas tree. Oh how it makes me proud! I know you're thinking gosh it isn't even Thanksgiving yet, but it was either put it up today or Sunday when I'm back here again and well I just couldn't wait. All the fun Christmas stuff was just too tempting to see lying around. The star does light up, I just have to get an extension cord, the lights on the tree don't have the plug thingy on them! Who knew?

A close up of my wonderful tree skirt Mom bought me!

Ok so here I just flipped over the coffee runner I had on the table already and used the backside! Genius I know right? I got the poinsettia thing at Wally World and the red candle. Ta-da! Cheap and easy!

My nativity scene!

This is my current read and it's also a birthday gift for my granny. Thought I might as well get a use out of it too. So far it's been really good and I'd recommend it! Mom and I went Christmas shopping yesterday and I am almost, almost finished. I just have a couple of more gifts to get. How is your Christmas shopping coming?

Yay I found a coffee table!

Mom and I went antique shopping Saturday, which I LOVE to do. Of course this isn't an antique, but they were selling it in the antique store. I just loved the look of it, and the price! We had gone by the furniture store earlier to look and my jaw about fell on the floor at the prices on some of them! It's hard to tell the top color (the lighting is too dark) but it's more of a darker red shade on top.

It has nice storage!

I also got this lamp at Wally World, I have been needing a lamp for the nightstand and of course I got home and realized I had no lightbulbs! Duh!

Whirlwind Friday

Well folks, I had my very first field trip experience. Luckily for me it was in town this first time. We took our 2nd-4th graders to the Sam Houston women's basketball game Friday. Let's just say that whoever did the planning for SHSU had no clue about kids. They had popcorn and a drink for $1.00 for our kids to buy and of course as soon as it took us the half hour to get inside to our seats they were ready for that snack. There was only 1 concession stand selling them! I was like are you kidding me?! And not only did it take us forever to get the darn snack, they gave kids RED kool-aid to drink. What?! RED kool-aid in an open cup is just dangerous! Let's just say that when it was all over I felt like I had walked a marathon and felt like this poor lady.

A new life

Well the shelf/table whatever it is that I showed a couple of posts ago got a chocolate brown paint job. I must say it looks TONS better than it did. Not bad for 5 bucks!

Christmas in November

Saturday Mom and I went to Christmas in November at church. We had a grand time hearing the Word, eating great food and we made a Christmas wreath!

Mom hard at work!
Fun with a glue gun!

Don't burn yourself!

My finished product!

Mom's finished wreath!

I'm so glad I got to spend this fun time with my Mom and glad to now have something else to decorate with this Christmas!

Latest happenings

Ok I know this looks like junk, but it is going to be painted and will house this monster stereo that I have and will have a home in the office/Nascar room. Mom got it at a garage sale for $5.

I rearranged things on my shelf, what do ya think?

I saw this little gem at Stein Mart when Dana and I went shopping and I just couldn't resist. I love the rustic look to it!

I put my black storage bench at the foot of the bed where it used to be with the old bed at Mom's. I wasn't sure if I liked it when I tried it before, but I think I'm liking it more now.

I just had to show my new E I bought at Kohl's. I have been wanting a letter for a while now, so now I have it and I had the perfect place for it!