Christmas Decorating

It's that time of year again. Christmas Decorating! This Christmas I had a mantel to decorate and I was excited as ever to see what I could do with it. I always loved the fake branches that people hung from their mantels so I went with that theme. I also put up the Christmas tree.

Since it was a cold night, I decided to light a fire to get into the Christmas spirit. It took me a couple of tries but eventually I got it lit.


I went to Garden Ridge for all of my Christmas mantel decorations. The good thing about next year will be that I won't have to spend all the money trying to get my Christmas decorations. I had to do that last year for the Christmas tree decorations. Let meet the characters shall we?...

Santa


Ginger Bread Guy #1

Jesus, Mary, Joseph

White Mini Christmas Tree

Reindeer

Candle

Mr. Snowman

Ginger Bread Guy #2

I had to put up the Christmas Tree another day because I was just so tired from Thanksgiving but here is the final product.

Any every time I go home it feels like Christmas. Now all I have to do is make my list and go shopping.

Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving was a great one. The food was great, almost everyone of the family was there and it was good conversation the whole time.



Every year my uncle Dennis fries the turkey. We all like to stand around to see the turkey drop like the ball on new years eve in time square.

At first it smells like french fries but then it just smells like fried chicken and you want to take it out immediately and eat it with some ketchup right there on the grass.

My cousins are in full teenager mode. Lazying about with no worries at all. And that's how it should be. Heck that's how it was when I was that age.

So let's go through the menu shall we. It was a wonderful one I have to admit.

Fried turkey

Mashed Potatoes

Shrimp dressing...( I have to admit when I took this on my plate that I only ate the shrimp off of it. I don't like dressing but I love shrimp)

Broccoli rice casserole

We also had rolls and green beans. It was a nice dinner and having everyone together felt like home.

Happy Thanksgiving and I hope everyone had a good holiday. Next up....Christmas!!

Sisters...

Over the past couple of weeks I have been thinking a lot about my sister and what she is about to become....A MOM!!! We have always been close so it is really hard to see her so little and life changing so fast. Especially when she is pregnant for the first time. I thought I would put up some pictures today to share and reminisce about all the times we spent together. We are both growing up but still are really close. I will always love you sister.