Merry Christmas to yours

I can hardly believe that we are already at the eve of Christmas. Where has the year gone, where has the holiday season gone.

I am blogging away from home today so I am making this short but I wanted to wish all of my readers a very Merry Christmas! I hope everyone is enjoying their families as much as we are. I can't wait to check out all the pictures I've been taking! Again, Merry Christmas!

Here are some pictures of the kids doing holiday crafts. A very special thank you to Miss Pauli and her wonderful mom for providing us with the trees.

These trees were awesome.

Payton

Preston or spiderman

An early visit from Santa

Things may go quiet around here for a few days… I hope not but we shall see. Just incase I wanted to squeeze in this last post before we hop in the car and head up to Tennessee.

We were lucky this year! I talked to Santa and he agreed to visit our house early so we could spend “Christmas” morning together in our home before going to visit family.

Santa came on Wednesday night after we were all fast asleep. This year was especially fun. This year we had two little believers who totally knew what was up. Our youngest is almost two so he didn’t quite get it, but he sure did help unwrap and play.

Payton man I wish everyone could see this kids face. In her stocking she got a Barbie pop star DVD (I’m sure we will be watching this in the car today). I don’t think I have ever seen this kids eyes so big, her face so bright and for the first time in her life she could barley form words all she kept saying was oh my, oh my, its its.

All Preston wanted for Christmas this year was a blue soccer ball and boy oh boy was he excited to see not only a soccer ball but also a basketball and football. Boys and their balls you couldn’t make him a happier boy. He also got a scooter and some action figures and animal planet dinos (we all had a blast reenacting Jurassic park).

And Cooper well he just had a good time. He helped unwrap the first 2 or 3 presents. He then went off and played with them and came back to help with a few more along the way. ( I had the older two unwrap most of his)

We had a beautiful day! The weather wasn’t great but the rain stopped about 3 and we took the kids outside to try out their new stuff. I wish everyday could be just like that one! The kids were so happy and so thankful.

Wrapping up a resolution in motion

At the beginning of November I made a goal to drink more water. You can read about it here and read my smart plan here.

I FAILED!
I broke out my favorite water bottle a 32 ouncer and filled and drank for the first week. Then my aggressive drinking style broke my bottle. So I had to pull out the back up bottle.

I didn’t lose any weight… and I didn’t drink my full 8 glasses everyday. I did however drink more on a daily basis than previously before.
When I made my resolution I thought this was a piece of cake man what I wrong. More than anything I would forget then as the six weeks went on I simply just didn’t want to. I plan to continue on the path to drinking more.

Weekend wrap up

We had a wonderful weekend. After everything that happened Friday I really don't have much to say.
On Friday when my oldest got home from school all I could do was hug her and hold her. She thought there was something wrong but I just needed her to know how much I love her.
We had a low key relaxed weekend.Our weekend was filled with love, fun, and the sun!. We played A LOT this weekend. We had the pleasure of watching the most beautiful baby girl.

We played cards with the kiddos

Were pretty sure we have a little card counter on our hands. As we were playing Payton was memorizing what cards everyone had. (a daunting task considering we were playing war)
We spend a solid 4 hours outside yesterday. God love Alabama weather.

Sometimes you just need to post pictures of really cute kids…

Tomorrow if you visit my blog this is what you will find:

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DIY Card hanger

This post was originally posted at See Vanessa Craft

Materials:

Window frame

Jute

Small or large clothes pins (I used mini in red and white)

Small bow (to hide nail on top)

Step 1: Paint the frame. I used Valspar red spray paint that I had left over from a previous project.

Step 2: Tie 3 lines of jute across the front.

Step 3: Hang frame on wall with nail.

Step 4: Hang your cards.

Breakfast pizza

2 years ago I had my first breakfast pizza. I was with my husband and brother. We were at Old Chicago watching the World Cup it was 8 in the morning. The restaurant opened early for the US game. We drank beer at 8 and ate a delicious pizza.

Fast-forward 2 years…

We’re not a very creative breakfast family. We eat cereal, oatmeal, toast/bagels and every Saturday I make pancakes. I think I need to branch out.

Earlier in the week we found all natural sausage and bacon at the market. (We don’t typically eat much pork but we wanted to give it a try).

Okay so on to the pizza.
You simply cook up your bacon, sausage and scrambled eggs just like you normally would.

While the meat was cooking I made the pizza dough. I always use this recipe. It’s quick, easy, and really good.

Once my dough is ready I cook it for half the time. Then pull it out and layer with eggs, meat, and cheese.

Put the pizza back in the oven and let it cook for the remainder of time or until the crust is golden brown and cheese is melted.