Holiday Home Tour 2016-Hot Cocoa Station & Kitchen

With temperatures dropping its really feeling like fall around here in GA. After a busy day at work and with the girls, I like to fix a warm mug of hot cocoa at night and zone out before I go to bed. Sometimes I will watch TV and sometimes I just scroll through Instagram, its fun and helps me relax! When fall started I put together my apple cider bar and for Christmas I like to change it up a little to hot chocolate, yum!

 Its my favorite part of our kitchen and super easy, I got all my items at Walmart and Etsy!

 This Santa bowl is one of my favorite Christmas items, I have had him for number of years and he had been filled with nuts, candy and now k cups! I also picked up some peppermints, marshmallow's and chocolate bars to put in your cocoa. And of coarse, a cute straw!

I picked up this wood sign along with a few other for only $5 at Walmart...SCORE!! This small tree was a gift from Mom, I've had for a while and all I have to do is replace the lights every couple of years. The mugs are old but cute too, since this picture was taken I purchased 2 more to add to my holiday collection.

The tree garland came from Etsy this year and I wrote Have a Cup of Cheer!

There is something about a warm cup of hot chocolate that is comforting, I also like to add cool whip in mine!

 If you follow the blog you may remember the Count Chocula cereals I put our during Halloween, I use the same glass jars from Walmart and fill one with all kinds of yummy sweets like Little Debbie snacks and the other with apples or oranges. I call it the Naughty or Nice jar :-)

I love this pic of Taylor in her reindeer sweater, adorable!

 I love that our Keurig is red and festive, its the best!! We use it every day, they are pricey but well worth it! I replaced my haunted house with a gingerbread house on my glass cake plate. I also stocked up on some Starbucks Holiday Blend coffee, yum!

 I wrote coffee is always a good idea and warm your heart on the coffee/cappuccino labels :-)

 Last Christmas my Aunt Judy was sweet enough to give me her Christmas Village and its huge!! This is only a SMALL piece of everything she gave me! She has the entire village and use to display it at her home on a beautiful big table. I don't have that much space in my house to display the entire village, but I moved my white pumpkins and put some pieces of the village here. I love them but they don't stay up for long with a one year old around! She has already pulled one down and broke it, eek!

Right off our kitchen is a small bathroom, I decorated it with this cute Baby its cold outside sleigh and a Merry Christmas sign. I found both of these at Walmart.

Right across from the toilet is the sink and mirror, I picked up some $1 snowflake garland and draped it across the mirror. I've also had this snowman candle for a couple of years.

I hope you enjoyed this tour of our kitchen and bath, I had a fun time decorating it!!

Elf Movie Night

"Uh-oh, sounds like someone needs a Christmas Carol!"

We kicked off one of the best holiday movies this weekend with Elf and Taylor loved it, especially the big burp scene, we were all laughing!!

 The movie is a great family movie with a warm heart and message, perfect for Christmas time!

 If you have seen Elf you know its all about SUGAR!! Who doesn't love sugar?! So this was a fun one to put together!

 Is there sugar in that syrup?

I got some help from yummy Cracker Barrell with our dinner for breakfast theme. They gave us some super cute syrup bottles and creamy butter.

 I finally got the red Starbucks coffee cups, they are so festive, love them! I especially loved the caramel latte in the cup!

"Son of a nut cracker!"

Some yummy boiled peanuts were Taylor's favorite

Breakfast for dinner is one of my favorite meals, my Dad did it a lot growing up. Some extra crispy bacon with eggs on top of the yummy hot cakes, sweet!

These two elves are best Buddies!

 Love my sweet and sassy elf!

 Nicole wouldn't let me get a pic with the cute elf hat on, but she is still a cutie just watching the movie!

My heart has been heavy this weekend thinking about a family friend of ours who suddenly lost her husband, she is now a widow with 2 young kids. I know she will be ok, I know she has tons of prayers and support right now, but its still hard not to ask WHY? We may never know,  but it sure is a reminder to live and celebrate each day we have with our loved ones to the fullest!! Lets start the happy holidays!

 

 

Simple Joy's & What I Wore

For some reason I feel like this week has been rush, rush, push, push every single second. With a shorter work week next week, my customers have called and emailed non stop needing something urgently. Along with parties and food to prepare, I don't think I sat down once to relax...and I don't count sitting in traffic as relaxation! But in busy weeks like this its really important to find some simple joys. Especially when the calendar is filling up and your to do list seems to keep getting longer, to me its really important to notice the little things that make all the rush worth it. So here are some simple joys in my week so far...

 Chocolate chips cookies are a good place to start! I picked up a pack of the Toll House pull apart dough, baked for like 7 minutes and we enjoyed some gooey cookies and milk!

 If you love Christmas music as much as I do, I defiantly recommend adding the new Pentatonix Christmas album to your collection!

 My sweet manager gifted Taylor with 2 cute Disney puzzles, Taylor loves a good puzzle and is really good at putting them together, she is super smart!

 My Grandmother Kee did an excellent job of keeping major events in the local newspaper. When she passed away I was lucky enough to get her wooden chest which has all kinds of historic events stored in it. I pulled out a couple AJC's along with this weeks current People Magazine, I think its really cool!

 Doesn't Coco look adorable in her piggie tails?!

 I picked up this adorable I'm Stuffed top from Walmart, perfect for Nicole's Turkey Day party at school!

 She came home with adorable turkey feather hat, gobble, gobble!

 We celebrated all our blessings this week at work with our annual pot luck and it was THE BEST lunch I've had all year! Everything about yummy Thanksgiving food was on my plate, it was delicious and I wanted a nap after eating. But I pushed forward and ate dessertS.

 I can't get over how cute these Screaming Owl matching Thanksgiving outfits are, love them!! My two turkey's!

This is my new sweater from Walmart, Taylor said I look like I am wearing a cape! I paired it with this blue tunic, tights and tassel necklace, super comfy!

 I saw a similar outfit like this on Instagram, just changed the black tights to black pants! I had all the items in my closet...SCORE!

 Some Lilly P with Lolly W makes a happy Lindsey P! I paired my brown stripped monogram dress with my hot pink Lilly vest and pink necklace.

 Another Instagram idea for the win! I paired my cute leopard flats from Walmart with my white jeans, Target gingham button down and green vest.

 I picked up some fresh cut tree tea light candles, they smell so good!

I hope everyone has a great, relaxing and fun weekend!

Saturday in Athens

This Saturday we packed up and headed to Athens for the GA/Auburn game and boy was it a welcome surprise! Our Dawgs have not been doing too great this season and Auburn has, so I expected us to get blown out. But I was very happy to see the Dawgs played good and hard and actually WON!! GO DAWGS!

 Its about an hour and half drive for us, so with Nicole's scream fest to start the drive, this was a welcome change :-)

 Taylor is ready to tailgate!

 Uncle G & T

 I love how well this picture came out! Its me, Nicole, Taylor, Gigi and cousin Katherine!

 Hot Dawg Time!

 Coco, Gigi and Granddaddy...with a cold one!

 Every day is a great day to be a Bulldog, but its the best when we BEAT AUBURN!!

Holiday Home Tour 2016-Master Bedroom & Bathroom

Welcome Readers to the start of our Holiday Home Tour 2016!! I hope it makes your holiday spirit warm and bright!

Christmas a wonderful and magical time of the year for those young, old and in between! And for those who love to decorate I think its the biggest holiday of the year. I am slowly doing decor every chance I can so I wanted to share with you what I have completed so far. Please enjoy our master bedroom and note in real life, its NEVER clean!! There is always a toy, cloths or something randomly on the floor, that is just real life! But once in a while I get a chance to clean up and take some pics :-)

 Our master is located on the main floor, when we moved in it was a bright blue and we painted a beautiful soft gray color. I love the color so much I want to paint our house a similar shade, but that is not cheap! Maybe one day :-)

Since our bedroom is white and gray I use as much while and silver decorations I can find. I picked up this snow flake door holder from Walmart and tied some silver string on top. A sparkly way to enter the room.

 Over our bed I switched our fall wreath to a white one with a silver bow and silver ribbon to hand it up. I simply pin it to the wall with a push pin and pray it doesn't fall on our heads!!

 I purchased this prelit white tree from Walmart 2 years ago and its still going strong! I store it under our bed and its very easy to assemble.

 The tree ornaments are very simple, just some silver balls and beads. I top it off with a pretty silver bow, I love the way they sparkle against the white twinkle lights!

My sister in law gifted me with this monogrammed tree skirt, love it!

 We purchased this fireplace from Home Depot when we moved it, it really works too! It was a favorite addition to this room and is perfect for the corner!

 I got these 2 gray velvet stocking from Target.com, they have a fabulous Christmas decor selection and FREE SHIPPING! I have actually added some more decor to the top of the fireplacce since I took this pic, I will share those later. I printed off a Baby its Cold Outside printable and framed it, love the warm feeling it gives off.

The tree came from Walmart and snowflake stocking holders came from Target. My Mom gave me the candle holders, they were originally silver and I spray painted them white, super easy update.

 

We have beautiful french doors that open into our master bath. You may have heard me mention the BRIGHT blue color of our bath, its not my favorite and I have new ideas for it. But just no time to paint right now. I am hoping as the girls get a little older I will have a weekend I can devote to the bathroom, but until then its ok. I hung some green wreaths with a silver bows on the door. I think Hubby hits these with his shoulders every morning!

 Love the silver sparkle

 Mom gifted me with this beautiful big wreath that has silver ornaments on it. I picked up some blue ribbon and bow for it to match the bathroom. This year I put some bright red poinsettia's on the bath.

 I think this wreath is a perfect size for the big window!

I found this blue Christmas sign at Walmart, ALWAYS BELIEVE!

 

I've had this silver bells wreath for a while, it really jingles!

 I hope you enjoyed the first part of our holiday home tour, I enjoyed getting to share it! Its a fun & special time of the year!!