{more christmas}

we are still alive. i have a nagging cough still, but, otherwise am back up to speed. evan woke up again with a terrible nose and cough. thus, we are all still in our pj's at 3:15 in the afternoon. today, i am officially wrapping up the last minute photography orders, boxing things up and such, but today should be it! thank goodness!

the flip side of that is i am so sad that december is almost over. i know all of us our busy, busy - but, the kink of us getting sick threw a little twist in the plans. but, again, i am thankful that ours was minor - i have several friends whose child or spouse is in the hospital as i type this. so, i have nothing to complain about.

and, on a much lighter note, a few pictures that i took a couple weeks ago. nothing fancy, in fact, i skipped out on much of it. no christmas village, just one tree, no train; but, very christmas-ey just the same.

so, here is our little tour....... nothing like the one i went on a couple of weeks ago in a neighborhood in greenwood - but, ideas i took from it nonetheless. i've decided next year, i am going to start my christmas craft projects in july. i got zilch completed this year.

i had spied this metal birthday cake last year at Lisa B's and bypassed it. I saw it again at Holiday Market and walked away kicking myself. Finally, with little hope i went into Lisa's a couple weeks ago and asked if she by chance had one this year - she did! she had one and it was 50% off! i LOVE it!

i am loving using fabric this year. just the inexpensive stuff at walmart. just seems to soften everything.

our poor little gingerbread house. note to self: remember to put the frosting in the bottom of the tray next year. yep! that would have helped! even our outdoor gb man was sad. :(

ang i and always either get each other an ornament or buy one for ourselves when we are together. this is us when we are old. it says sisters. others i have from her include a couple of elvis, a multi-tasking mom in mayhem, glass ornaments, etc.

THIS is one of our cherished ornaments. notice i have kept the tag on (on purpose) we purchased this on one of our trips to SF for in-vitro. at the pier, they had an all year Christmas shop so - we got a noah's ark for whatever child God had in our future. little did we know how we would be incrediably blessed with noah about 3 years later.

this is from our shopping trip together this year (ang & i) at holiday market. she got an identical one with an A.

our sneaky little elf, elmer. the boys are still loving him! i hate to see him go thursday night. :(

our nativity has many broken pieces and is sitting high on our kitchen cabinet. i am hoping to replace it this year.

i think i will keep all of this up until valentine's day. seriously.