I have spent the past couple weeks decorating for the holidays, you heard me right, couple weeks!!! The girls helped decorate the tree...I tried REALLY hard to not care if I had 2 random clusters of bulbs in one area, well my OCD kicked in. I texted Shawn at work last week..."I'm taking down all the tree decorations and all the lights and starting over". This actually probably didn't surprise him all that much! Claudia said "mommy, what are you doing, is Christmas already over?!". I kinda felt like Joan Crawford from Mommy Dearest, but she was a sport....this time she put the ornaments where I said they needed to go! :) On top of that, if you look (I encourage you do this!) in the Holiday 2008 Pottery Barn catalog, check out their front porches...BEAUTIFUL! So I have spent lots of time trying to perfect my "Pottery Barn inspired" porch! We are having a pretty big (about 60 people) Holiday party (adults only...woo-hoo) so I HAVE to get it all done by Saturday! Oh, the pressure!
I just realized I totally skipped over Thanksgiving...now I think my ADD is kicking in! See...you're getting to know me now! :) Anyway, we had dinner over here and it was really nice...tons of food and great company always makes for a good time...oh yah, can't forget Catch Phrase! LOVE IT! Shawn went out shopping at 4am on Black Friday. (NOTHING will get me up that early, good man!) He got some pretty good deals and now I think I'm addicted to Kohl's...I don't typically shop there, I just forget about it, but I have been back there like 4 times in the past month and now I love it!
Claudia had her parent/teacher conferences last week at her pre-school...Ms. Sarah said she was a little bossy towards her friends, she can tell she has younger siblings at home. I approached Claudia with that and oh let me tell you she was MAD at Ms. Sarah!!!! She denied it and started crying! Man, is this happening at 3?!!? Other than that, she is doing great! :)
I need to go check on my holiday porch now, ha...good night! :)
Oh wait...before I go I was summoned to do this little survey...
List 5 of my favorite addictions:
1.Play dates...I love being active in my baby girls lives and getting the latest juice from my girlfriends!
2.Right now(literally), this darn cookie dough I bought from my nephew's school fund-raiser....we made the cookies and they weren't too good, but the frozen cookie dough on the other hand...yummy!
3.Having my house look "magical" for the holiday's, I love it and so do the girls, I think Shawn does too or at least he goes along with it! :)
4.Shopping!!!! I find a store a day I swear that is having a BIG sale! :)
5.Working out...I don't know if I'd say "addicted", but I definitely LOVE the way my abs and bum feel the next 2 days!!!
For fun, do a survey too! :)
Claudia and I...
Chloe in her ballet get-up giving daddy kisses...
I love this picture of my Claire-Bear...
Family picture from Thanksgiving day...
3 comments:
about time! Whew!! I thought I'd lost you forever! I want to see some pics of your holiday decor!
Give the girls a squeeze from me!
I read!! You have the most gorgeous family. Seriously.
I'm the same way with our tree. My husband helped put the decorations on, and I had to take them off and redo them. O.C.D. ;-)
I just hopped over to your blog from Kim's. I saw your cute pic on her "followers" and had to see your family. It reminds me much of mine, with the 3 brown babes, all close in age.
Your family is BEAUTIFUL! I know you hear that all of the time. We are stopped constantly and I am sure the boys are tired of hearing how handsome they are!
Just had to tell you how cute your crew is!
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