STRESSED!!!!

This is me, BUSY as a BEE and STRESSED to the MAX today!

A friend of the family passed away this week and we had to attend the viewing today, which I couldn't even go up to give my condolences because Gage starting throwing a fit!! So I took him out to the truck to sit till Brian and Gavin were done! The funeral is tomorrow at the same church that we had my grandma's at 3 years ago; so I know that will bring back a flood of sad memories for me:(

Tomorrow is also my Creative Memories Holiday Open House which I have been so excited about but now I feel so overwhelmed. I baked two goodies which I screwed up the 1st one by adding too much margarine so I had to rebake it; UGH!! I still need to finish my Christmas decorating which annoys me even more because I am like 2 weeks behind on it. I also have about 4 baskets of laundry to fold, a huge basket-full to iron. Well since I'm on a roll here (lol) its a freakin' 12 degrees here too, can we say BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

Well gals I needed to vent desperately this evening and now I feel a little better;) I got to get to work on my Christmas Card/Tag display for tomorrow. So at least I'll have lots of good pics to post in a couple days!!

DON'T FORGET THE DRAWING FOR THE GINGERBREAD GIVE-AWAY WILL BE THIS SUNDAY, PROBABLY MORNING!! I'LL POST THE WINNER THEN.

THANKS TO ALL YOU GALS WHO HAVE ENTERED!! IT HAS BEEN SO GREAT MEETING NEW FUN PEOPLE ON HERE, I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE IT!

CHAT WITH YOU SOON,
~NOELLE~

Goodness Gracious! More Gingerbread...

This Adorable bouquet is from Teleflora gifts!! I don't know if they still make it or not but darn it, I WANT ONE!!!

How cute is this? And yummy smelling I'm sure!

Ever have a day when you want to yell this to the world... BITE ME!!!! lol:)

Now I know all the Pink Loving girls out there will enjoy this Gingerbread House!!

A Gingerbread Christmas Quilt!!

I love this story! I read the Gingerbread Girl to my oldest the other night; the Gingerbread Girl is much smarter than the Gingerbread Boy! She outsmarts the fox in the end of the story!

Ohhhhh, this is a little playset with plush gingerbread and look at that little rolling pin!!!!!! I want one for my little Gage!

Look at these costumes! I've toyed with the idea of dressing my boys up as Gingerbread men for Halloween; would that not be cute and original??

Love this little house!

Run, run as fast as you can! You can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread Man!

Hope this post made you want to go and eat some cookies! lol

If I EVER get all my Christmas stuff up this week... I'll have to post all my gingerbread stuff! (Its becoming a collection, I tell you! Or an obsession:)

~Noelle~

Gingerbread Give-Away Items...

My 1st Give-Away...
GINGERBREAD style!!

Ok, so while I was out and about doing some Christmas shopping today. I had waaaaaaaay too much fun finding items for my give-away and had waaaaaaaaaaaay too hard of a time telling myself that I couldn't keep them! lol:)

So here is what is included in the Give-Away:

A gingerbread house pot-holder, cutesy gingerbread girl socks, a gingy cookie cutter, a Gingerbread house photo ornament (too sweet!), a real edible gingerbread cookie in a cute tin, a little gingerbread gift bag, a sheet of very pretty snowflake stickers (too pretty, I had to include!), a small box of Mrs. Fields chocolates, a Jack Frost Yankee Candle tart (my fave holiday scent, smells like peppermint!) and a very soft beige finger towel with a candy cane on it!!

I LOOOOOOVE this Pot Holder!

Don't you want to win??

Cute frame ornament!!

I wish you all lots of luck on winning my give-away. Remember to leave your comment on this post or the previous one to be entered! The drawing will be on this Sunday, Dec. 7th!!

~Noelle~

My 1st GIVE-AWAY!!

!!! GINGERBREAD GIVE-AWAY !!!


I will be having my first Give-Away here on my blog and have been thinking about what to give...
GINGERBREAD EVERYTHING!!!

I think they are too cute and got this obsession from my mom, Lori @ Pink Faded Roses,!

So I am on mission today to get some cute and sweet Gingerbread stuff for my give-away and will post them later today.

Feel free to enter the give-away now and the drawing will be on this Sunday, December 7th!!!
JUST LEAVE A COMMENT ON MY BLOG!

Since I have done this before, feel free to copy the image and post it to your blog as well to announce it to other and if you do, I'll enter your name twice!!

I am so excited to share this all with you!

~Happy Holidays!!~
Noelle :)

Just catching up...

I love this fireplace and SOOOOO wish we had one! I dream of the day we have a new house and a fireplace to hang the stockings on and to be able to curl up next to the fire at night with come hot chocolate!! Mmmmm:)

Believe it or not, I STILL do not have my tree up:( I usually put it up the Monday before Thanksgiving but time didn't allow it this week. I am so excited to decorate the house, Christmas is my favorite holiday. I am very worried about lil' Gage who is 19 months now and VERY curious, that he will destroy the tree this year. My future mother-in-law is taking him Monday while Gavin is at school so I can get rid of the dust bunnies that have been taking over lately and get our tree and decor put up. All of our snow outside has just about melted already! I know we have more back soon though.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving; ours was nice, but not the same as always:( We only had one place to go this year, instead of 2. I cooked for us and the boys and our dads on the Monday before and had NO leftovers!! I couldn't believe it; I wanted turkey so bad on Tuesday for lunch and nope, none to eat!! (I'll just assume it was too go to leave any as leftovers!; lol!)

Well, as soon as I get my tree up and pics taken I'll post them!

To everyone...

Awesome MySpace Comments & Myspace Layouts

Another FUN swap to do!!

Here is my 2nd swap for this Christmas season!
I think it will be a lot of fun; I've never created a "cracker" before:)
My partner is Sue and I'll be visiting her blog a little later today for more info about what she loves!
I'm off and running to take care of a messy house due to 2 little boys who have about 200 hundred train cars and hot wheels all over this place! LOL
Later,
~Noelle~