Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Monday, December 22, 2008
Ornaments
I belong to an email moms group and we have been together since our kids were babies.
10 years ago we started a yearly tradition of exchanging ornaments. One person each year is in charge of organizing it, picking the names and letting us all know who our "secret santa" is. Then we pick out an ornament (or other decoration) for that person and mail it to them. Then, after a date is picked in December, we all go to a chat room (it used to be AOL, but too many of us were having problems, so we went to chatzy.com this year) and open our presents on that night.
This is one of my favorite things to do each year. Some of the years our chats get so hilarious and funny, we are laughing our butts off and our family is just looking at us like we are so weird!
I am so looking forward to the day when I will have gotten an ornament from every single member of our group and that I have given an ornament to each on of my friends.
We are a special bunch of gals, inasmuch as we all come from different backgrounds, different lifestyles, and different parts of the country. We all came together because our children were born that same year. And now, while we do still talk about our children, our discussions are more about us and our lives and sharing it with each other.
These are the ornaments I got this year. I love them!!
10 years ago we started a yearly tradition of exchanging ornaments. One person each year is in charge of organizing it, picking the names and letting us all know who our "secret santa" is. Then we pick out an ornament (or other decoration) for that person and mail it to them. Then, after a date is picked in December, we all go to a chat room (it used to be AOL, but too many of us were having problems, so we went to chatzy.com this year) and open our presents on that night.
This is one of my favorite things to do each year. Some of the years our chats get so hilarious and funny, we are laughing our butts off and our family is just looking at us like we are so weird!
I am so looking forward to the day when I will have gotten an ornament from every single member of our group and that I have given an ornament to each on of my friends.
We are a special bunch of gals, inasmuch as we all come from different backgrounds, different lifestyles, and different parts of the country. We all came together because our children were born that same year. And now, while we do still talk about our children, our discussions are more about us and our lives and sharing it with each other.
These are the ornaments I got this year. I love them!!
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Halloween
Halloween.
I've always loved this holiday. I love seeing the girls all dressed up, but I also love seeing what others come up with as far as costumes go.
Me? I could never come up with that cool creative costume. I have a friend, Sue, who dressed up like a Sea Monkey with her husband (then boyfriend). My sister dressed up as a "Noid" (remember "Avoid the Noid" from Dominos WAY back when?) once. Those two have always come up with the most fun costumes.
This year may very well have been the last year my oldest dresses up to go trick-or-treating. Wow, I feel so old.......
She was a pirate last year and I told her I was not going to buy her a new costume this year, so we altered the costume she had from last year to make her a "Queen of Hearts" in a way.
My youngest wanted to be a skeleton. So I found this on on ebay. She was going to have her face done up too, but after we put the white makeup on her face, she got uncomfortable with it on, and plus her skin was a little sore and raw underneath her bottom lip (dry weather, licking your lips, you get the picture), so we took the makeup off.
We went trick-or-treating with good friends of ours in their neighborhood. Ours sucks. Hubby said he got like 5 trick-or-treaters all night. So sad.
The oldest got out the decorations a couple of weeks before Halloween. Here's our little Halloween "village".........
And since I have a thing for snowglobes, we have to have one for Halloween too....
One decoration we did forget to get out was the little Trick Or Treater guy we made years and years ago. By the time I remembered it, it was the day before Halloween and I didn't feel like going into the shed to get him out.
I've always loved this holiday. I love seeing the girls all dressed up, but I also love seeing what others come up with as far as costumes go.
Me? I could never come up with that cool creative costume. I have a friend, Sue, who dressed up like a Sea Monkey with her husband (then boyfriend). My sister dressed up as a "Noid" (remember "Avoid the Noid" from Dominos WAY back when?) once. Those two have always come up with the most fun costumes.
This year may very well have been the last year my oldest dresses up to go trick-or-treating. Wow, I feel so old.......
She was a pirate last year and I told her I was not going to buy her a new costume this year, so we altered the costume she had from last year to make her a "Queen of Hearts" in a way.
My youngest wanted to be a skeleton. So I found this on on ebay. She was going to have her face done up too, but after we put the white makeup on her face, she got uncomfortable with it on, and plus her skin was a little sore and raw underneath her bottom lip (dry weather, licking your lips, you get the picture), so we took the makeup off.
We went trick-or-treating with good friends of ours in their neighborhood. Ours sucks. Hubby said he got like 5 trick-or-treaters all night. So sad.
The oldest got out the decorations a couple of weeks before Halloween. Here's our little Halloween "village".........
And since I have a thing for snowglobes, we have to have one for Halloween too....
One decoration we did forget to get out was the little Trick Or Treater guy we made years and years ago. By the time I remembered it, it was the day before Halloween and I didn't feel like going into the shed to get him out. All the Halloween decorations are now put away and the few Thanksgiving ones that I have (and they were all my mom's because she loved decorations for EVERY season, so when we went through her stuff, I took some) are now up. That literally took all of about 5 minutes.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to All!
We have a long standing tradition in my family.
The night before Easter, the Easter Bunny hides all the Easter baskets that are filled with goodies all over the house. In the morning, all the kids have to find their Easter baskets. I did this when I was little as well. It's amazing some of the places I found my Easter baskets at times!!
My oldest one was quite happy with her stash as well, as she organized it all too, including a gift card to Itunes:
We have a long standing tradition in my family.
The night before Easter, the Easter Bunny hides all the Easter baskets that are filled with goodies all over the house. In the morning, all the kids have to find their Easter baskets. I did this when I was little as well. It's amazing some of the places I found my Easter baskets at times!!
I have kept this tradition alive with my girls as well. The only thing that has changed is the fact that the Easter Bunny now wraps the baskets in cellophane, because we have a cat and a dog in our house and we don't want them getting into the baskets in the middle of the night and eating all the chocolate. Case in point in following picture:
My youngest one was so excited when she got Hannah Montana socks in one of her Easter Baskets. She kept saying, over and over: "I got Hannah Montana socks!! I got Hannah Montana socks!!"
My oldest one was quite happy with her stash as well, as she organized it all too, including a gift card to Itunes:
A tradition that started at my Aunt's house as well, was looking for the plastic Easter Eggs out in the backyard. We used to go to her house every Easter, but she moved far away, so it's not possible to to there at Easter now. So we continued the tradition here at our house. As you can see, sometimes they have to climb to find those eggs:
A lot of times they are just in plain sight too:
Happy Easter to you all!!!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Happy Valentine's Day
Yes, I know I'm a few hours early when I posted this, but where hubby is, it's Valentine's Day now. :)Oh, and by the way, I didn't make this. My eldest did. She made it for her friends tomorrow. How stinkin' cute is this???!!! That girl has got some talent!
Happy Valentine's Day to you all and may it be a true Love Thursday!!
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Another Thing Checked Off
I am done with my Christmas shopping.
No more last minute things to get.
Now I just need to wrap.
And bake.
I'm doing a bit of that right now.
Most of the Christmas cards have been sent out.
Except for the ones that I needed to put school pictures in.
Got the pictures today.
So the rest will go out tomorrow.
We are going to drive around and look at lights tomorrow night.
One of our yearly traditions.
My youngest and I went for a sneak peek last night while the older one was at basketball.
Sunday I get to see one of my sisters again.
I love visiting with her.
I just wish my family lived closer, like in the same town or even within 20 miles or so from us.
I'm about to become an aunt again though, as my SIL is about ready to have her first baby.
Hubby is home for the holidays, yea!
The kids will be off for two weeks next week for the winter vacation.
I wish I could take off for two weeks too!
As much as I love our Christmas decorations, I can't wait to take them down next week.
After I take them down, our house always feels so much larger.
One of my goals next year is to continue to de-clutter my small house.
I've made good progress this past year.
We are also talking about getting a new kitty after the holidays too.
One that's nice and not mean, like my cat.
Let's just hope the two get along!
No more last minute things to get.
Now I just need to wrap.
And bake.
I'm doing a bit of that right now.
Most of the Christmas cards have been sent out.
Except for the ones that I needed to put school pictures in.
Got the pictures today.
So the rest will go out tomorrow.
We are going to drive around and look at lights tomorrow night.
One of our yearly traditions.
My youngest and I went for a sneak peek last night while the older one was at basketball.
Sunday I get to see one of my sisters again.
I love visiting with her.
I just wish my family lived closer, like in the same town or even within 20 miles or so from us.
I'm about to become an aunt again though, as my SIL is about ready to have her first baby.
Hubby is home for the holidays, yea!
The kids will be off for two weeks next week for the winter vacation.
I wish I could take off for two weeks too!
As much as I love our Christmas decorations, I can't wait to take them down next week.
After I take them down, our house always feels so much larger.
One of my goals next year is to continue to de-clutter my small house.
I've made good progress this past year.
We are also talking about getting a new kitty after the holidays too.
One that's nice and not mean, like my cat.
Let's just hope the two get along!
Monday, December 03, 2007
The Decorations Are Coming Out.....
It's getting closer to Christmas.
The girls and I got out our indoor decorations on Sunday. I have always loved decorating for Christmas. Now that my eldest is getting older, she likes to decorate too and so I let her organize a lot of the way the decorations go.
A friend of mine shared her collection of snow globes with our group of moms and I got to thinking that was a neat way to display them. I don't have that many snow globes (only 3 to be precise), but they all play music. I also have two music box decorations too. And that is, in part because I love music boxes. Other than the Christmas decorations, I have a music box that was my grandma's that came from Switzerland, one that my eldest gave me one year for Christmas and one that hubby gave me for our anniversary once. So I don't necessarily collect them per se, but I do love them. Here is my Christmas collection of snow globes and music boxes:
The girls and I got out our indoor decorations on Sunday. I have always loved decorating for Christmas. Now that my eldest is getting older, she likes to decorate too and so I let her organize a lot of the way the decorations go.
A friend of mine shared her collection of snow globes with our group of moms and I got to thinking that was a neat way to display them. I don't have that many snow globes (only 3 to be precise), but they all play music. I also have two music box decorations too. And that is, in part because I love music boxes. Other than the Christmas decorations, I have a music box that was my grandma's that came from Switzerland, one that my eldest gave me one year for Christmas and one that hubby gave me for our anniversary once. So I don't necessarily collect them per se, but I do love them. Here is my Christmas collection of snow globes and music boxes:
And they all play different tunes.
I also have friends who have their Christmas villages displayed at Christmas and some of them have shared pictures of them. That got me started on thinking of creating a Christmas village of my own. I finally have an area in my house where I could display them. The table is small, so that will be nice in the fact that I won't be able to get too carried away with it. Today we got a couiple more things for it and when my eldest was putting it on the area, she dropped one and it broke. Well, my creative child decided to use it in the scene, rather than have Daddy try and glue it back together. So in this scene, the woman it literally knocked off her feet by the two people helping them push her car out of the snow..........
Kids. Gotta love them.
Saturday, December 01, 2007
We've Been Elfed!
Teehee!
Just some fun humor for Christmas! :) Enjoy our silliness! (Thanks Sue!! :D )
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1131857607
24 more days until Christmas!!
Just some fun humor for Christmas! :) Enjoy our silliness! (Thanks Sue!! :D )
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1131857607
24 more days until Christmas!!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Happy Halloween!
This is my girls' "little brother, Eric".
I don't know why my eldest started calling him that many years ago.
In 1996, we lived in Tennessee, and I saw this deocration on someone's porch on Halloween. At first glance I totally thought it was a real little kid. Upon closer inspection, I realized it was just a decoration.
I researched how to make this and the next year when we were back in California, my hubby and I put our heads together and made this decoration for Halloween. It is always my favorite one. And periodically, through the years, the girls "pose" with their little brother "Eric" on Halloween. He never gets to go outside though until the night of Halloween, as he is too precious to leave just outside all the time.
Here he is through the years with my girls:
In 1998:
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