Merry Christmas to me!

It's been 2 weeks...

Makayla is sleeping looooong hours at night...(11-12 straight)

I am well rested...

I think I am ready for the Holiday madness/travelling...

Bring it on!!

Who knew?

My mom has a wreath party every year, and the last 2 years, I struggle every time with being creative and crafty. I made regular, pretty wreaths, with evergreen, and ribbon, and pretty glittery flowers and such. And usually, I had to have my crafty mom do most of the work.

Using hot glue guns?
Wire?

Fake flowers?

Making bows from ribbon!?

Help!

I always liked to think of myself as somewhat crafty. But every year, I am reminded that I'm not as talented as I thought myself to be. And only about once every year, around this time do I feel the need to actually BE crafty. So this year, I wanted to do something a little bit different. I got the idea from a well known "crafty person's" (to say the least) magazine...cough...Martha...cough...

So I made a few changes and had this really pretty picture in my head of how it was going to look. I started out and thought, oh crap. This is going to be tricky. Then about 25 minutes later, I had made pretty much zero progess and realized I would be spending almost the entire night at my mom's house glueing balls onto a bunch of ribbon. Great fun.

....about 2 hours later, after most people had left, I was finally finished. Hooray!! It didn't turn out exactly as I had pictured it in my head, but it's pretty close.

The picture doesn't really do it justice...it's really all pretty and shiny and happy on my wall. I promise.

And don't worry, I've already gone through a certain magazine....and figured out what I want to try next year..."Mooooommmmmm.....I need heelllllppppp....." (This was said alot last year...though not quite as much this year...yay!)

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And along with the "Christmas-y" sort of theme, we mailed out our Christmas cards the other day. We haven't done that like...ever...you know, the ones with a cute family picture, printed onto a card...yikes. But we did it. And I should have printed more, I didn't think we'd use all the ones we printed, but I kept remembering people that we should send to, and then after we ran out of pictures, I remembered about 15 more. So, I'm posting the pic on here, because in addition to those 15 people that I neglected, there are all my online blogger friends!

Merry Christmas!! Love, us!

A fun way to spend five minutes!

This was pretty fun. Apperently Makayla looks more like me, but lately everyone's been saying she looks alot like Jason. When she was just born, ALL ME...haha.

I want it all

Why oh why does Anthropologie have to be so expensive!! I want to buy the whole store!!

Starting with this...it matches a new green shirt I just got perfectly!!and then perhaps this...

ok, and then this...

and finally, what I want for Christmas...
Are those not the cutest salt and pepper shakers you have EVER seen!!?? I need to have them. And they aren't as expensive as I would have thought them to be. Yay!! Those are definitely going on my Christmas list for Santa.

Hello Again

We made it back! We had such a blast. Long car rides and all. Makayla did SO much better than we even hoped for. Except for the last 2 hours of one of the legs. Wow...she has some serious lung power. What a fun time though. We all had fun watching my uncle Brad make some wooden tops and pens on his wood lathe, played some fun games, soccer, ate ALOT of food, visited, ate ALOT of pie, went hot tubbin', went to a weddin', did way too much driving. That's pretty much the rundown of the trip!! I've got a few pics here, but we have like 1000 to go through. We took alot of pics. It was a great reunion. All of my aunts and uncles on my dad's side were able to come!!! And we all have a great time together. They are so much fun.

Now I just need a big looooong nap!!

Little Miss taking her pre-road trip bath, getting all clean and ready to go for a long ride!

The beginning of the long drive!

With Grandparents

Grandma and her kiddo-s...Grandma's eyes look kinda funky in this one...hehe.

In front of the Mesa Temple.

My niece and nephew, too cute

The bride and groom. Karen and Jackson.

Learning to drive!! See that pen hanging? My little bro made that on a wood lathe for me! He's very talented!

She was fed SO much on this trip, by us, and Grandma, and aunts and uncles...she looked like this alot of the time, always something in her mouth!