Sunday, December 18, 2011

The most wonderful time of the year...

I love christmas!! We have so many traditions as a family.


*The Caldwell night light parade. We always eat taco soup before the parade and apple cobbler after. So Much Fun! It only gets better with all the babies!


*Christmas Eve is when we get together with my family. A movie and then a breakfast dinner together. And, also, opening the sibling and parent gifts that night.


*Christmas day in the afternoon we always go to my Great Aunt Nancy's house with the Hollingsworth relatives. We play an awesome roll the dice gift game and just really enjoy the company of everybody!

Waiting for the Caldwell parade to start... Brecken didn't have gloves so Heidi loaned him some. They fit just right ;)

Me and my daddy!



Mom, Heidi, and Cami Girl


Me in front of the huge lit up tree in Caldwell

Mom and Dad in front of a bunch of lit up lights along the water.



Christmas decorations are always fantastic to look at and I am strict about the day after Thanksgiving my decorations are out of the shop and ready to put up! They need to be up for the max amount of time!

My christmas tree looks a little sad in this picture. But at night... I love it. I decided to use the old fashion c9 bulbs on it and put less ornaments. (Mainly because I got lazy hanging ornaments). I didn't even try to put the star on top this year because our fake tree is just to tall and goes right to the ceiling.


My stockings

A random shelf I decorated. I just used stuff I had laying around the house or extras of stuff in the x-mas boxes and kinda came up with this look.


Love my bear advent calendar. Just like the one I had growing up! It is ugly but full of memories!



Two days ago my boss saw these light up reindeer that they never use and asked if I wanted to take them home.. Ummm, YES!! Rillz, I, and the dogs went out in the cold this morning to assemble them. I love them!




Aren't these great! We put them closer to the front door because we don't live in the best neighborhood and I don't want them to get stolen.

Rillz staking the reindeer down so they don't blow over. These things were SO easy to assemble!



Miss Malu helping in the front yard. Yes, she has a coat. She gets so cold so quickly and just starts shaking. So Malu gets a coat.






Little Simon boy.






Jersey... she was let out in the front yard with no leash for the first time and did GREAT! She stuck around the whole time. She has been a great addition.



Also, Pandora on my phone has been AMAZING! I put it on the She and Him Christmas channel and just love the tunes! Oh I love christmas music but the radio x-mas channel gets a little boring. Pandora is truly fantastic!



Christmas is in exactly one week! Crazy. Still no snow in Boise, Idaho (which is a little weird for this time of year). But snow or no snow... Merry Christmas everybody!

3 comments:

Jess said...

OH MY GOSH!! I have the EXACT same bear calendar! I LOVE IT!! I was obsessed with it growing up so my mom gave it to me after I got married. Emma and I move the bear every morning. lol I wonder If it was something that our moms found and did together or something?

Kristi M. said...

I seriously had to laugh at Jessica's comment! The babies of the family in love with the same calendar. I still can't believe I found that at the thrift store after you were randomly mentioning it to me. I think it is cute and your kids will love it too! This time of year is pretty fun!

Danielle said...

Yay! I have my pandora on she and him christmas as well- its the BEST! Fun decorations!