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Above our dresser in our room

I just go this new bedding and am in love with it.

Sophie and Ellie's room (we'll see if Sophie will sleep in her new bed that took me forever to paint..these beds were my old beds)

Connor's room

Our family room

Ok so I am not one to take pictures of thier home and then blog about it. It sounds like a very vain thing to do. But here I am. I was asked to have my home in the Christmas Home show ( a fund raiser for the local Crisis center around here) I said yes..against my better judgement. But in the end, I got projects done and things done around the house that have needed to be done. This just gave us some added incentive. I have to admit, I think it looks pretty good. It was a lot of fun and my house has never been or probably ever will be so Christmasy. Bytheway, the reason I am posting these is for my sister-in-laws who asked me to. So enjoy..give me some decorating tips and when this is over, I can enjoy the rest of the month

Family Pics

On Thanksgiving Day, my mom had us take a family picture..which I forgot to post. So I got our family and then one of my brothers and sisters. So if you don't get a Christmas card from me, consider this it. Merry Christmas

Are you Serious!!!!

Ok so let me tell you about my night last night..just so you can all be glad it wasn't you. we all went to bed fine and dandy. At about 3:30 am Ellie starts up with a coughing fit. (She has been sick for a week now) So I give her some medicine, a drink of water and crank up the humidifier. That seems to do the trick and she goes back to bed. 4:00 am Connor gets up and has to poo..like major poo. He gets done and goes back to bed. 15 minutes later, he comes in and says he has thrown up. I go into a panic because that very night, I had just put on his brand new bedding I bought. I mean are you serious!! So Nate gets him in the tub and I go in to check out the damage..Oh first of all the smell. So RANK..all acidy and gross. It made me want to vomit. Then I look and it is everywhere. I kid you not. All over his new bedspread, all down the wall, on the carpet and on one of those decorative pillows you can't just throw in the washer. So I proceed to remove all his bedding and start some laundry. Then I start scrubbing his mattress, while Nate attempts to clean the pillow. All while trying not to smell this yuck! So after I clean it the best I can, I grab the Febreeze (and lets just say a little prayer of thanks for Febreeze) I swear I used half a bottle. And went and got another one this morning. So i Febreezed the crap out of the entire room..put Connor to bed on the floor and couldn't fall asleep for like another hour because I had this horrible stench in my nose. So Gross to say the least and I said to Nate as we were drifting off to sleep.."and we want another kid???"

Tis The Season

So it's that time of year again. Christmas tree hunting with the Belnaps...and my sister who wanted to tag along because she had never been. This year was fun..well sort of. First of all Ellie was sick so she stayed in the car in her pj's singing Christmas songs and Sophie was asleep for the intial cutting of the the tree. But as you can see, she found some fabulous boughs for decorating. Usually it takes us a while or I should say it takes my OCD husband a while to find the perfect tree. But this year we literally got out of the car..walked about 50 feet and there it was. Our perfect tree. Nate didn't even want to look further (What!) So who was I to argue. It really was the perfect tree and really cold so we cut it down and were on our way. I love this tradition and with more and more people putting up those non-smelling artificial trees (no offense to all of you), it just wouldn't seem like Christmas without the pine smell and needles all over the carpet. So Merry Christmas and Happy tree hunting...and thanks to McCall who lugged all the boughs around the forest for my decorations.