Movie Night, Simple Joys, & What I Wore

It's almost here, the countdown is on!! Are you ready for a few days off of work?! I know I am watching the clock cause at 5 PM:

If you are like me, since Christmas Eve and Christmas Day fall on the weekend, that means we get an extra long weekend, its terrific!!! I plan on really enjoying it the best I can!

We continued our Christmas Movie night theme with Beauty & The Beast The Enchanted Christmas, it was sweet and super girly, you know Hubby was all over it :-)

 I picked up some pink princess Reese's cups and Belle party plates at Walmart in their birthday section. I also picked up a new Belle doll for the girls to share.

 You may be thinking, what is that? Its called The Grey Stuff from the song Be Our Guest in Beauty and the Beast:

Be our guest
Put our service to the test
Tie your napkin 'round your neck, cherie
And we provide the rest
Soup du jour
Hot hors d'oeuvres
Why, we only live to serve
Try the grey stuff, it's delicious
Don't believe me? Ask the dishes

Its actually just a yummy mixture of crushed Oreo's, pudding, cool whip and cocoa!

We also had some pink raspberry ginger ale.

 If you like Beauty and the Beast you would enjoy this movie too, all the main characters return.

Taylor & Belle, both beautiful!

Daddy's princess trying some ginger ale, she was not a huge fan!

Taylor at church Sunday morning, she stood by the tree and said take my picture Mom!

One of our sweet customers Seasons Transport took us out to eat for Christmas, Chad is always so good to us. We enjoyed some Dreamland BBQ and boy was it good!!

Christmas Vacation is one of the funniest movies of all time, cousin Eddie is the best!!

Sometimes I just crave an ice cold coke especially when I eat Chinese!! It never disappoints!

Reindeer Donuts...YUM!! Hubby picked these up from Dutch Monkey!

When your favorite Christmas song Jingle Bell Rock comes on the radio!

Playing with sissy

Daddy picked up this cookie hot fudge sundae from Dairy Queen...SCORE!

Matching Christmas shirts!

Our 2016 Christmas Card

My new find at Walmart last week, this adorable sweater dress for only $12! Its soft and comfy, I love it! I paired it with my gold tassel necklace also from Walmart.

Don't Stop Believing! Love this Santa top from Target.com, I paired it with my buffalo check vest!

This will close it out for me this week, I am work tomorrow and have lots of fun things planned for the weekend. I hope everyone out there has a safe, fun and Merry Christmas!!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

  

Holiday Home Tour 2016-Upstairs Loft and Guest Bedroom

I hope you have enjoyed my Holiday Home Tour, Christmas is my favorite season to decorate for. I love all the lights and colors. Getting our house ready really is so much fun for me, taking it down is a different story!! I wanted to close out by showing you our upstairs loft area and guest room, hope you enjoy!

When you come to the top of our stairs I have my Grandmother's Chester drawers decorated with a nativity set and some other Christmas pictures and signs. I also got this Noel sign from Etsy last year, I love it! This nativity set was a gift we got on our wedding from our family friends Chip and Pam, I also got one from my Mother in law I display in our guest room.

 This Merry Christmas sign is new this year, it was $7 at Walmart...SCORE! I try to switch my current pictures with Christmas ones. Here is baby Taylor and another one of Taylor and Avery.

 On the other side of the chest I have a cute little birdhouse and a peace tree from Walmart. I love candles like my Mom, right now I am burning a pine sent!

 In the corner of our upstairs loft I have a little multicolored tree with Georgia Bulldog ornaments and a paw print fleece blanket I use as the tree skirt.

 I was really fortunate enough to get my parents matching couch and love seat, they are comfy and this couch pulls out into a sofa bed, perfect for Uncle G on Christmas Eve!

 I hung some wreaths on each side of our built ins, this one is really special because its wear I hang my sweet Gizmo's stocking, he was a rascal for sure, but somehow always scored a gift from Santa!

 I also picked up this Merry Christmas banner from Walmart for $1, perfect length to go across the TV cabinet!

 During the holidays we have a few visitors, although the house is never as clean as I wish we always have fun. One of the many reasons I love out home is because we have a guest room with its own bathroom, a nice perk for our visitors! I got this welcome sign from Walmart, I thought the shovel was so cute and that I could use it in my winter decorations with Christmas is over.

 I don't have very many decorations in the guest room, but I do like to add some twinkle lights over the bed and a small tree. I also put a yellow bow on the wreath hanging on the window. I have mentioned this before but this was my bedroom set growing up, it belonged to my Granddaddy's Mother, its beautiful and holds a special place in my heart. The bedding is from Target and I added a Christmas fleece blanket from Walmart.

Notice that little cutie on the bed?!

 Walmart has had the best selection of Christmas signs this year, very affordable and cute, that's where I picked up this joy sign.

 We love the movie Polar Express like everyone else at Christmas, such a great message! I printed off this quote from the movie and placed a jingle bell next to it.

 I filled these glasses up with some ornaments. These glasses are not longer there due to my youngest daughter. She ripped them down and threw all the ornaments down the stairs!

 Here is the tree we have in our playroom, I call it our Grinch tree! I decorated it with lime green ornaments and a little Grinch. this window looks over our garage and it really pretty at night when we pull in.

 Today is the first day of winter and on my way into work after I de-frosted my car, it looked like a layer of snow, although it was just frost, it was still like driving thru a winter wonderland, so lovely. I thought about that beautiful Bette Midler song, The Rose, there is a line she sings that says

 "Just remember in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed, that with the sun's love in the spring becomes the rose."

I personally know many families that have had a difficult 2016, my own family had a close scare this summer. I have seen a father die way two young and leave behind a sweet wife and kids, a sweet couple loose their baby son, a friend's sister die, our family friends struggling with a lot of back pain and cancer, and my sweet friend Onika who passed away this spring. It can be a lot. I don't know why this kind of stuff happens, especially to good people. But I do pray as we come close to this weekend, where many people have mixed emotions about Christmas, that they feel hopefully and loved. Like winter when it seems cold and bare, there can be a lot of beauty in the light that shines through the cold, just like in the picture above.

Thanks for taking the time to tour our holiday home this year!!

Taylor's Christmas Concert

Now that Taylor is so big, her class at school did their own Christmas Concert this year and it was so cute!! I had one more day left of vacation before the end of they year and I couldn't think of a better way to spend it!

 What is one of THE BEST feelings in the world? When you walk into your kids classroom and they sprint up to you with a big smile and open arms, so happy you are there!!

 All the kids had on a pair of reindeer antlers and ornament necklace they colored.

 All the kid tables were set up so cute, I hope I can be a room Mom one day when the girls get into school!

 Here is the 3/4 kids class, a great bunch!

 Taylor and her friend Julianna enjoying some cupcakes, chips, dip and fruit!

 Taylor's morning teacher, sweet Ms. Christy!

 Taylor's afternoon teacher, sweet Ms. Ariana! These ladies take excellent care of my sweet girl while I am at work, I am so grateful for their love and kindness towards Taylor.

 My boss Layondra got Nicole these cute Minnie Mouse jammies, they are super soft!

 Taylor has gotten to the age where she is really excited about Christmas! She asks all kinds of questions and wants to be good for Santa. I love this cute smile holding her Paw Patrol toys XOXO

 Its a magical time of year for kids young and old!!

Holiday Home Tour 2016-Girls Bedroom's

Can you believe it, its the final week until Santa's big day?!

I have so many lists right now of things to do and get, it looks like I have done everything I can do right now, but I still feel like I am forgetting something, do you get like that?

I wanted to share some holiday rooms upstairs with you today, I really enjoyed decorating the girls room, I hope the will continue to love the little trees and nutcrackers in their rooms as they grow!

 Here is Taylor's pink Christmas room! When we moved into our house, I remember her room was the first one we painted, pink of course!

 Gigi got Taylor this beautiful pink tree from Kohl's for her first Christmas with some beautiful ornaments, Taylor loves it! The pretty pink ribbon was made by my friend Nancy at Taylor's baby shower.

 One of my favorite ornaments, I am dreaming of a pink Christmas!

 This is a new item I bought this year from Target, its a super soft pink fairisle blanket, its so comfy!! The Rudolph pillow cases came from Etsy last year.

 Here is Taylor's Pink Pig Board, every year we ride I put a picture of her up there, I love seeing how much she has grown each year!

 My sweet friend Katie send me this, I thought it was perfect for Taylor's room!

 On to Nicole's room where you will find this pretty sparkly purple tree!!

 I picked up these candy canes from Walmart, hopefully I will find some more purple Christmas decorations as the years go by.

 I could not find a purple Christmas blanket so I picked up this cute polar bear blanket from Walmart, its super soft and only $5...SCORE!

 I got this pretty purple bow at Walmart too, love it! They have a great selection of purple ornaments!

Hope you enjoyed this little tour of the girls room, hopefully its full of sweet seasonal dreams!