December Daily: 12/10

In the play-doh we can build a snowman...

December Daily: 12/9

One of my new favorite things about Christmas is seeing all the little touches in decorations that show we are a house with little ones. I have always LOVED the little Christmas villages and dream of having a big elaborate one someday. But with two little kids I know that would be very impractical - I can't imagine having something so tempting for them to play with and have to tell them "NO!" constantly. So this year, I found a little village set at the Dollar Tree. I have quite a cute set up complete with a grocery store, Town Hall, school, candy shop, and several other little buildings. With each piece costing just a buck, I can let Riley play with them without being worried about him breaking it. The other day he was sitting on a stool playing with the little people, rearranging my houses and telling his own little story. When he hopped down, I noticed that my fire station was being attacked by giant goldfish crackers. :-)

December Daily: 12/8

Santa's Little Helper! One of the things I was most excited about when we got Lilly was being able to dress her in little outfits. Our yellow lab Lucy is 70 lbs and just didn't cooperate with dressing up. ;-) So I picked up this little elf outfit from Target and viola! instant cute! Lilly hated it. It had little bells on it so I think it freaked her out. It was cute while it lasted!

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

December Daily: 12/7

The Tiny B has been an absolute gem lately. ("...truly outrageous, truly truly truly outrageous...Whoa!" - name that 80's cartoon theme song!) She really doesn't do anything except cry and want me to hold her. Last night she went to bed at 6 - extremely early for her! - so I thought she'd sleep it off and be fine. But no. We've been up since 3 AM. One second she'll be her funny, smiley self - then BAM! insta-crab. It's like Dr. Jekyll and Baby Hyde. After some chocolate milk, oatmeal and cartoons I finally got her to go back to bed. But now I'm wide awake!! Here's our menu for this week - I'm not sure exactly what meal will be cooked on what days, but here's the gist of it.

• Chili (a weekly winter staple at our house)
• Tacos
• hot dogs, mac & cheese and baked beans (this is a special meal Jeff and I used to eat when we first got married. We were talking about it last week so I decided to fix this little throw back treat as a surprise. Mix your mac and cheese with the beans....it's SO GOOD!)
• Fettuccine Alfredo
• Beef Stew Ala Pioneer Woman
• BBQ Chicken
  

I've also been storing lots of cookie recipes that I want to try this week. The guys Jeff works with will LOVE me when they get to eat them all! (Because Lord knows I'm not keeping them all in my house!) What's for dinner at your house?

December Daily: 12/6

Have you seen the website Cake Wrecks? YOU SHOULD! I got sucked into this website last night and couldn't leave. Too much funny awesome-ness all in one site! My favorite was the cake turkeys - which end up looking like poo/penises.

I give you the turkey poo-wang:Visit this website. Belly laughs will follow!

December Daily: 12/5

At least once a month I get a chance to hang out with the best ladies known to mankind. What started out as a book club (because of our mutual love of Twilight) has become an awesome, awesome friendship. We laugh (a lot), cry, talk, whine, complain, and celebrate together. It's wonderful to know what true unconditional friendship feels like. Oh, and they are pretty good at picking out books too!

Joy - the newbie who also is an AMAZING hair stylist!

Michaele - my fellow curly girl and the incredibly photogenic one.

Robin - the mommy. Always, always thinking of others.


Amber - my complete opposite in just about every way (She doesn't like "Glee"!!) But is a dear, dear friend.
(missing from the photos is Sarah who couldn't be with us this month!)

*Cue Golden Girls Theme Song!*
Thank you for being a friend, travel down the road and back again...
Love you girls.