Let it Snow!

When we lived in the apartment we made snowflakes every year to decorate the window.  This year we did the same, only we also decorated a lot of the doors as well as the big window in the living room. It also made for a lot of...ummm... snow in the living room!

Look What I Did:)

A little update.  I realized I hadn't posted pics of the finished stockings so here they are:)

One of my life long dreams... (Ok, maybe more of a goal) I've had for the last few years has been to cross stitch a stocking for everyone in the family.   I finished stockings for Taylor

 and Olivia

I started one for Chris and then lost interest for a while but the last few months I've been into it again and finally finished the stocking.

 In that time I also acquired a program that lets me design my own cross stitch patterns and so the stocking I stitched for Lucas is one of my own designs.  Now I just have to work on stockings for Dee Dee and myself:)

 

Early in the Morning

 

Early this morning Chris got up to see the eclipse of the moon.

Our Living Room, before the Holidays and Decorated for the Holidays.

This first year of decorating has been fun.  The new living room is bigger than the one at the apartment which makes it more fun.  It's especially nice that we no longer have to wedge the tree topper between the ceiling and the tree.

The living room when you walk in the front door, before. 

and after.

Across from the TV before, 

before,

and after.

Across from the piano.

and now.

Another before

after

and after.

Thanks for visiting;)

Halloween 2011

 This year Taylor wanted to be Flo, no a zombie, wait... Zombie Flo from Progressive!  The Progressive site actually provides templates so you can make your own Flo costume.  We printed out the tags, bought the apron and Chris stenciled it and then we bloodied it up.  A white polo, white pants, wig and hairband with appropriate gory makeup finish the whole thing off.  She's received a lot of great comments on her costume.

 

Lucas wanted to be a vampire.  I told him there wouldn't be any sissy, sparkly vampires in this house, so he went as Dracula.  I had made the cape a couple of years ago so all we needed to do was get a vest, a shirt and a little bling to finish off the costume.

Dee Dee wanted to be a zombie princess and then she wanted to be a doll, so we've done a couple of different versions for different events.

Olivia couldn't wait to try out the Cleopatra costume we got as a hand me down.  She looks great in it and gets a lot of oohs and ahhs over it.

And yes, that is some one's homework everyone is standing on.

Yikes! A big freaking hairy spider!

So after discovering this dude in my kitchen sink I'm thinking about just boarding the place up, putting out a for sale sign and cutting our losses.  I kid, mostly.

First Day of School!

This is the first year they are all in school all day long.  Taylor and Olivia are in 5th grade and Madeline and Lucas are in 1st grade.