Lots of Holiday stuff...

Here are some photos of the few decorations I have gotten up other than my tree.
I added these pretty gold bows to the end of my curtain rods.

This is my old-fashioned record player that I got from my grandma's house when she passed away. Its a neat old piece:) She always had it decorated for every holiday which inspired me to do the same in my home; it brings back so many memories of her each holiday season! This Santa/Reindeer is made of wood and I think I got it for $5.00 the day after Christmas a couple years ago and the ornament tree was like $9.00 on clearance. I love to take my birthday/Christmas money and go shopping the day after Christmas for new decor that gets clearanced; I also stock up on a ton of wrapping paper, bows, gift bags, etc.

Here's my cute little snowman whose lantern flickers.

Next up is Ginger-"bear" cookie time in our house...

Ok, I know she isn't the cutest!! lol Too many sprinkles came out of the jar, oops!

Here is Brian and the boys decorating their cookies.

This is the little kit we used; I found it a CVS for $3.99!! The cookies didn't taste all that bad either!

Gage loves cars and couldn't resist driving them on the poor gingerbears!!

Here is my scrumcious Gingerboy!
I almost died when I found these pj's for him on Black Friday!!

Don't you just want to nibble him? But...
He will run, run as fast as he can! You can't catch him, he's the gingerbread man! LOL

He loves to line cars/trains up on this record player too. Its cute:)

Here is my cute waving snowman that lights up in the window; you can see all the snow in the background!

TIME TO TRIM THE TREE..

Here is my new "fake" tree we got this year. I had a 6 foot pre-lit for almost 7 years and the past couple years the lights kept going out so I had enough this year! ARG! I jokingly told Brian to go buy me a new tree and he said "Well get some make-up on and lets go!" So we picked out this 7 ft. that looks and feels almost real! Its not a pre-lit, thank goodness, but it only took 6 strands of lights. The branches scraped my arms and hands up so bad that it hurt to shower the next day.

Here is my Gingerbread Star, of course!!

My BFF got this ornament for me when I was pregnant with Gage. Its a pregnant snow-mommy- awwww!

Cute enough to want to eat!

My mom saw my tree and told me that I probably have enough Gingerbread ornaments to theme a whole tree. So an idea popped in my head to put a Gingerbread tree in my kitchen next year:)

I got this ornament for Gage's 1st Christmas last year. Every year I pick out a new ornament for the boys to represent the year, I got this one from Hallmark.

My mom brought me this Minnie Mouse ice cream cone ornament home from Disney when she went awhile back.

Cutie Gavin with Santa when he was 4; they grow up too fast!

Here's a close up of the ribbon I used on the tree as my garland.

Cute Sister snowgirl from my bro's a couple years ago.

Here is Gavin helping me with the last of the ornaments when he got home from school that day.

Here is what Gavin, my oldest, calls "Extreme Sledding"! He went down the slide on his sled-lol! Typical boy:)

He is a ROCK STAR!!

This was all the snow we got in about 2 days before Thanksgiving! Now it is almost melted; we had freezing rain last night, which made for some slick areas today. I slipped in the parking lot at my sons school and my shins hit the running board on my truck-OUCH!! My legs are so sore and sure to be bruised tomorrow; DARN ICE!!

Good night!
Noelle