"For each new morning with its light,
for rest and shelter of the night,
for health and food, for love and friends,
for everything Thy goodness sends."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
The perfect tree
liked this one...it was one of the more expensive ones, of course!
Come on guys...THIS is the one!
We left with a beautiful (and really cheap!) tree
I confess...I'm kinda cookoo over Christmas. The day after Thanksgiving it becomes a jolly free- for-all. It looks like Santa lives in our house. To jump start the madness, we go pick out a tree, no, the tree. I usually take an hour to find juuuust the right one. This year however, we have an impatient little one that is on her own schedule, so we grabbed the first one we liked! And luckily, in our haste, we did find a really pretty one!
Monday, November 1, 2010
Halloween 2010!!
Beetlejuice and Lydia!
Kisses for Toto!
Beautiful Cousin Bella!
Ahhhh...FINALLY!!Maddie's 2nd Halloween was a success! The only hiccup was the fact that she still walks on her toes so her sparkly red shoes kept coming off! She was relegated to the wagon most of the night, but since I had NO intention of letting her consume a bunch of candy, it actually worked out well! She enjoyed riding around with Bella and watching all the trick-or-treaters approach houses, bags in hand!
Her "Dorothy" costume was precious, but I struggled with what to do for the pigtails from the movie. I mean, we can't very well have a Dorothy with no braids! I tapped my inner creative diva and fashioned two yarn braids and glued them onto a headband I had decorated. When we "rehearsed" through the week, she refused to keep it on. 30 seconds. Tops. But low and behold, she actually left it on the entire time we trick-or-treated!! Must have been Aunt Momo's distraction technique with the lollipop...
Unfortunately, mommy was a little sick (thanks for the bug, Mads!), so we didn't stay out too long, but we still had fun! We were also a little tired from a grown-up party the night before, so we all got to bed at a descent time. There truly is no place like home...
Her "Dorothy" costume was precious, but I struggled with what to do for the pigtails from the movie. I mean, we can't very well have a Dorothy with no braids! I tapped my inner creative diva and fashioned two yarn braids and glued them onto a headband I had decorated. When we "rehearsed" through the week, she refused to keep it on. 30 seconds. Tops. But low and behold, she actually left it on the entire time we trick-or-treated!! Must have been Aunt Momo's distraction technique with the lollipop...
Unfortunately, mommy was a little sick (thanks for the bug, Mads!), so we didn't stay out too long, but we still had fun! We were also a little tired from a grown-up party the night before, so we all got to bed at a descent time. There truly is no place like home...