WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER

I have been so busy with Christmas and putting it away I almost forgot about winning a giveaway from Ms. Rhoda. I won her giveaway to Listplanit.

Oh my if you are a lover of lists then you will love love love this site. She has like a gazillion lists, for anything you can imagine.

I have just spent the last hour looking through them and choosing some that i can use in a our family organizer.

Ms. Rhoda thank you so much for the giveaway!

Today was the first day of my 5 day vacation!!! I got all of my Christmas taken down and put back in tubs. I have 12 tubs of Christmas and that is not counting the couple with lights and greenery in them! I am glad the house looks put back together but the magic is gone too...

New Years Eve tomorrow. Do you all have big plans?? Scott wants to go to go hang out with some friends but it is an hour away and he wants to spend the night but I want to come home so I don't know what we will do. We usually spend it at home and everyone is asleep before midnight (well except me, I never make it before midnight). I like to be home in my own bed come morning! He asked if I wanted to stay there from Thursday til Sunday so we could watch the Razorbacks play in the Liberty Bowl. I asked him if he was crazy! I like home way to much.

Whatever you do please be safe!
Happy New Year

I am off to work on my new year resolutions using my list from LIST PLAN IT!
Blessings,
Pam

CHRISTMAS AT HOME

Christmas Eve is always spent with Mamie, Scott's grandmother.

Doesn't she look beautiful in the photo below!

She turned 95 on the 20th of December

We had each family take pictures with her this year.

Ours below

This is Coco before going to the party with Mamie.

After we got home she talked us into opening one present.
She got WII Resort and she & Scott haven't' done anything but play this for the past 3 days

CHRISTMAS MORNING WITH HER STOCKING

It is a tradition that I cook breakfast on Christmas morning. Scott asked for french toast this year. It was very good and we used our Christmas dishes.

Northwest Arkansas had the first white Christmas in years.

Since the roads were nasty we voted to stay home and go to my Mothers on Saturday.

This enabled Coco to play in the snow. One of her gifts from us was snow bibs and I am so glad it snowed so she could use them.

I ventured out to take photos of her but she kept pelting me with snowballs.

Ornery little devil!

We had a wonderful Christmas and are so very blessed!

Blessings to you all

Pam

MERRY CHRISTMAS

I COULDN'T WAIT TO SHOW YOU THESE

I made these Santa's tonight.

They are laying down drying so the picture is awful.

My recipe:

styrofoam cones

red velvet (i bought 1/2 yard and will have leftovers after the 3rd cone)

Hair stuff from doll aisle at hob lob

black vinyl (i bought 1/2 yard but 1/8 would be enough for 3)

38 piece pack of jewels from jewelry aisle (will need more for #3)

Aileens tacky glue

1.I rolled the cone on the fabric and cut (sloppy) & glued it down

2.I pinned and glued the white stuff on

3.for the top i rolled it around my finger a couple of times to make it fuller

used glue and pins

4. i cut the vinyl for belt free hand and glued it around the velvet

5. glue the jems on in the shape of a belt buckle.

These were $20+ each at one store in town, estimate $22 -24 dollars for all 3 of mine. Not to shabby if I say so myself!

I will post a picture of all 3 when I get another cone, so you can see how beautiful the red velvet is.

We are supposed to get 2-4 inches of snow tomorrow night. This will be the first white Christmas in years. I just hope we aren't stuck at home eating ham sandwiches.

Coco just ran in and asked where our Santa plate is.

I told her oh we don't have any cookies.

She said "we have cookie dough"

I said "you want to leave him cookie dough?"

She said "yes"

Santa says "I don't like cookie dough"

We might have to buy some cookies already made tomorrow.

Maybe I will ask Santa to do that while I am work

Blessings,

Pam

FORECLOSURE

Today I went into Coco's room and she said

Look Mom they had a foreclosure

And now they live in a block house.

Guessing she hears to many mortgage stories from her banker Mom!

Merry Christmas from my home to yours

WELCOME TO OUR HOME

THIS IS OUR TREE IN THE LIVING ROOM

THIS TREE HAS ALL OUR COLLECTED ORNAMENTS AND ORNAMENTS COCO HAS MADE FOR US

THIS IS OUR RED, WHITE AND BLACK SANTA TREE

ALONG WITH SANTA'S I HAVE ADDED PHOTOS OF FAMILY

A LITTLE WREATH ON THE LAMPS

OUR FAMILY PHOTOS FROM PAST YEARS

THE DECOR IN OUR BEDROOM. I DECIDED AGAINST PUTTING UP A TREE. TIME GOT AWAY FROM ME

I HUNG THESE CANDLE WREATHS ON THE CABINETS IN THE KITCHEN

MY CHRISTMAS VILLAGE ON TOP OF THE FRIDGE THIS YEAR

THE KITCHEN WINDOWSILL

MY DINING ROOM TABLE WITH MY FRIENDLY VILLAGE DISHES


MY NUTCRACKERS ON THE TABLE IN THE HALL

I LOVE DECORATING AND COLLECTING FOR CHRISTMAS

HOPE YOU ENJOY THE TOUR

HAVE A VERY MERRY AND BLESSED CHRISTMAS

PAM

OH HELLO

Have you missed me???

I have missed you!

I haven't even turned on the computer this week, things have been hectic for us!

We have went looking at the lights on the Fayetteville square.

Had Christmas with the in-laws (his family)

Scott got layed off from his job (just until March) not indefinite Praise God

Girl Scout Party

Work office party

Lots of stuff going on!

Tonight i have been looking through the Nester's Christmas Home Tour. Wow, when I left her blog there were 997 links!! I haven't even taken photos of all mine yet. I could just browse all night but I have to go to work tomorrow and I told Coco we would go out for breakfast so I better get to bed!

I will be back, please don't give up on me!
Blessings
Pam

A LITTLE CHRISTMAS HERE AND THERE

Here a few peeks at my Christmas decor!

Santa on my red, black and white tree! New tree I bought at the after Christmas sales last year.

The top of our traditional tree. Not sure I am done with it yet!

At Christmas time my favorite word is always JOY! So when I saw

this box at HB I couldn't pass it up.

We have had a DAY! Coco woke up with a temp of 100.8 with aches and pains. Grandparents couldn't watch her so I had to stay home. We watched Merry Madagascar, Where the Red Fern Grows and Deck the Halls! She is much better now, I think it was just a reaction to the flu shot. When she was little, she would get a fever after every vaccine! I will have to remember that from now on!

Our Christmas book tonight was Auntie Claus by Elise Primavera. We both enjoyed this book very much.

Blessings,
Pam

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN

We started our new tradition of reading 25 books to Christmas tonight. I am surprised we remembered. Today was kind of hectic.

This is the book we read. It will not be my favorite but it does have a teachable theme about it.

Coco and I got our seasonal flu shots at the flu clinic at school today. I volunteered for a couple of hours and I was able to be there when she came through so I went first. Not bad at all. I know there are lots of opinions out there but we chose not to have the H1N1 vaccine. I just don't trust it. Call me crazy but that's the way it is.

We got a wonderful surprise on Saturday. We had some friends come into town from St.Louis. Unfortunately they were here for a funeral but we did get to spend some time with them on Saturday and then we all had lunch before they left on Sunday. Here is a photo of Coco and Stephanie chowing down on some Chinese food.

Stephanie's mom Darleen is battling a recurrence of cancer so please put her on your prayer list. She has such a positive outlook and is very confident that she is going to beat this. She told me this weekend she has been overwhelmed at the amount of people that tell her they are praying for her, she feels these prayers and is comforted by this. She has a strong faith in God, I am proud to call her friend.

I didn't get any comments on the blog about the Challenge. I left mine at work so I don't know what # I am at. Let me know if you find them all.

Blessings,
Pam