her new bag

Tatum heading off today with her new Hello Kitty purse.

Christmas morning

well, the kids had us up at 7:30 on Christmas morning.

Van set up his video camera to catch Santa, however when he woke up in the morning his camera was off and he found this letter:

I am just going to post some pictures from the morning ...

Tatum got Josh a Steelers football, he likes the Browns ... their rival!

Van reading his letter from Santa.

Santa came

our tree after Santa came.

Tatum's presents.

she loves horses.

Ollie's presents.

Ollie loves giraffes.

 Petey's presents.

he loves snakes.

Van's presents.

he loves dinosaurs.

Daddy's presents and stocking, he loves the Reds :)

we put the stocking with the presents because they get too heavy to hang on the hook.

our tree

Christmas is over and everyone is thinking about New Years, but I wanted to share our tree.

here is our tree Christmas before Santa stopped by.

and here are a couple of my favorite ornaments...

diet coke, we have a coke one too.

a gift from Petey last year

I got one too.

my ornament that we got in Virginia and one Ollie made last year in kindergarten.

Tatum's hello kitty, of course

Petey's Vader, of course

Ohio state

star fish from Virginia

Van's ornament from 2nd grade

Petey's ornament from 2nd grade

I could show you lots more, but I will save you.

suprise ...

I am here. I didn't mean to take a little break, it just happened that way. I have taken a few of these this year. Don't worry, I have not abandoned my blog. There has been lots of things happening lately and I think my blog has become a little stale. I started out blogging about my kids and keeping family up to date with what was happening here. The blog has morphed a little from time to time since I started in 2007 ( fashion, home furnishings, crafts and organizing). Well, I don't think I am officially back yet, I probally will not be back till the first of 2012. The blog will have a fresh outlook for the new year! I really just wanted to tell everyone Happy Holidays! I hope that you get everything under the tree that you are wishing for.

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If you miss me, I will be on Tumblr, and Pinterest.

o'Christmas tree

Daddy, Van, and Petey choose our Christmas tree last night. In the end it was Petey's choice and he choose the fattest tree he could find.

believe me it is fat, the picture does not do it justice.

It is now decorated and I will share pictures soon. It took to trips to the store late last night to get the tree lit.

In a little while, we are off to play Santa. I hope everyone is having a happy Wednesday.

Holiday Wreath

I made a Christmas wreath this weekend.

I made it the same way I made this one and his one.

I added a ribbon to make it a little more festive and I think that these are my best flowers to date.