Gingerbread Goodies

As promised, here is my post of all the Gingerbread Goodies I got for my birthday!


After dinner last night, Brian and I went grocery shopping without the kids! (Now thats what I call a DATE, lol!) We were walking out of the store and my eye wandering to the Hoosier Lotto ticket machine and what did I see? Gingerbread Lotto Tickets!!! I told him that I felt lucky seeing those and they were too cute to pass up:) He rolled his eyes at me and gave me $4.00 to buy to of them. We got into the truck and I said, "Oh my gosh, they are scratch and sniff too!" Another rolling of the eyes came from him!
Will I be a winner?

Not a winner! BUMMER! They were mighty cute though:)

My BFF Valerie got me the Sex in the City DVD and a Martini ornament to go with;
cute and fun!

Close up of the Cosmo Martini ornament.

My friend Wendy got me a Gingerbread towel set and 2 silicone baking pans! Aren't they adorable? Also a set of craft punches for when I scrapbook!

Close up of Mr. Cute Gingerbread! My mom suggested making a plaster of paris mold with this one and painting it; that would be too cute!!
I think I am going to try it after the holidays are over!

Here are 2 ornaments I got; the one on the left is from Valerie and its a mommy, daddy and 2 kiddo gingerbreads! Amie got me the frame ornament on the right and put a photo of her and I in it. SWEET!

Amie also got me a pretty sparkley sweater that I have been wanting, a towel set with a gingey cookie cutter and recipe on it! And an adorable plate and candle shade:) Thanks sis!

My mom got me this blown glass gingerbread house on a cupcake ornament!

Cute cupcake stickers!

This gingerbread man sings "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" and the marshmallows in the mug pop up and sing too!!!

I love this red ceramic gingerbread basket!!
She also got me 2 gingey ornaments.

And I got another sweet towel set; the little ginger-girl is a pot holder/oven mitt!!

Lastly, my dear friend Holly that I met on her through blogging and a mutual love (or obsession, lol) for gingerbread, sent me a birthday card yesterday and put these sweet gingerbread stickers inside!!
THANKS HOLLY!!

Well, we have a busy night ahead of us! We celebrate Christmas with our boys on Christmas Eve morning, so tonite we need to bake our cookies for Santa and clean up our toys so Santa will visit us tonite! Tomorrow evening we are off to my moms for dinner and more gift-giving. Then on Christmas Day, we celebrate with Brian's family in the morning!! The holidays are very busy for us! So I will be back soon:)

Love and Happy Holiday wishes!

Noelle and family!!

My Friday Find!!

Today we had to run some errands and ended up at Sam's Club, where I found this precious snowman! He's made of resin and its 3 feet tall, actually quite heavy. I looked at the sign to see how much he was and he was marked down to $24.96 from a regular price of $70.00!! I called Brian to BEG to get him and he didn't seem to mind so I snatched this little Frosty cutie up and brought him home with us! They also had a Santa too but I figured I could keep Frosty out of the front porch longer than a Santa, without looking like a total looney-tune! lol

It is SO COLD here today; it has been snowing all day so far. I guess we are supposed to get a couple inches by tonite.

Sunday is Lunch with Santa at Gavin's school following the 11:00 am mass. They have Santa there to take pics with the kids, there are crafts and cookie decorating for the kids to do as well. We also get some yummy sub sandwiches to eat for lunch. It was so fun last year, I can't wait to see how the boys enjoy it now. Little Gage walks around saying "Ho, Ho, Ho" in this little deep voice he makes. Outside of Sam's Club today, there was a gentleman wearing a Santa hat that was bell-ringing for a local charity to collection monatery donations for the needy this holiday season. The man kept yelling out, "Ho, Ho, Ho! Merry Christmas!" Gage kept looking at him and repeated "Ho, Ho, Ho" back to him! LOL

Well, Gage is napping and I am FINALLY dragging the rest of the Christmas decorations upstairs to finish! If I don't I won't have any pics to post for the Christmas Blog Party tomorrow!!

~Noelle~

Today must be... Two Post Thursday!

Today, I needed to get out of the house to clear the grouchiness out of my head so Gage and I went to visit my mom then headed to Goodwill!
Holly inspired me with her beautiful shabby bookshelf that she found there, so I thought I'd go see what I could find!

I had old cool Christmas things on the brain to find at Goodwill, which I did have success finding, but I also found this pretty dish with a couple roses on it. They matched the roses on my living room throw pillows so I had to get it! I only spent like $7.49 today and got all of these items...

Cute set of 3 decoupage angel ornaments!

I loved this little snowman jar, it holds a tea-light candle on the top too.

This Christmas serving tray was WAY too CUTE to pass up; it was only 2 bucks!
I think we will use it to put Santa's cookies and milk on the night before he visits us:)

And the DEAL of the DAY!!!!

This pretty hot pink tree full of glitter which you can't see was only $1.00!!
I must have missed the first time I went down the one aisle, then I went back and thought OH, My GOSH!!! It is so cute! The pot is painted silver; I have been thinking about what I can add to it to make it even more pretty!

Here is another one of my favorite Gingerbread cuties! I got this sign made a couple summers ago at the Blueberry festival; it says "Noelle's Kitchen" on it.

Last week I got my Christmas Cracker Swap package from Sue!
Let me tell you that the cracker she made REALLY cracked and shot confetti all over!

Here is the big cracker all jazzed up for Christmas!

So many goodies inside... sparkly confetti, little white doves, angels, a lady bug pin and so much more.

Some very cute and girly tissues!!

Some pretty beads, ribbon and little wooden fairies.

This candle ring was made with glittery berries too; I think I am going to add a ribbon and make a little wreath out of it!
It matches really nice in my living room as well.

A collection of Christmas stories for me to read for some down time.

This cool tree is made out of silver bells and it rings so pretty!

This soft green start ornament went right on my tree:)

She also sent me some birthday and Snoopy stickers; I'll have to share with my mom, who loves Charlie Brown anything!

I'm off to get dinner started and to fold more laundry! I think I have a burst of energy to get the rest of my Christmas decor out too.


Noelle~

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