After the Iron Bowl on Saturday we started the Grinch and set out to decorate the Christmas tree. BK even put on her new Christmas pj's for the occasion. She was a big helper as we fluffed the branches.We put up three Christmas trees. One main Christmas tree in the living room, one in our bedroom and a pink tree in Braylen's room. The tree in our living room is a mixture of ornaments that we've collected over the past six years. I love decorating this tree since each ornament holds special meaning.Like this one from our first Christmas together... And this one that Allen made when he was a child... We picked this one up on our trip to the Biltmore Estate a few years … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2011
Holiday “Bucket” List
Remember our Fall Fun Bucket? Well, I knew I wanted to do something similiar for Christmas and the Holiday season but I just couldn't seem to find anything that really stuck out to me. I have enough Christmas decorations sitting around so I didn't want to add anything else to the counters. So I decided to use what I already had, the chalkboard in the kitchen... I picked up Chalk Pens at Michael's yesterday and listed out the things we plan to do during the next month on the chalkboard. Simple and inexpensive. … [Read more...]
Braylen-isms
I've probably told you once or twice that BK is full of personality. I mean FULL of it, she's funny and silly, she's serious and dramatic and she never meets a stranger. I've been waiting and waiting to do one of these posts and it seems that now that her vocabulary has taken off it would be the perfect time to start."Hi boy" or "Hi Big Boy" This is what she says to our dog, Coco. I have NO idea where this came from or where she first heard someone say it. Obviously we don't call our bog "boy" or "big boy" since Coco is a 9 pound, female. Not big or a boy, in fact."Hep Me, Hep Me" (Help Me)I hear this no less than twenty times per day. When she shuts the door to her bedroom, she can't … [Read more...]