Thought of the day...

Can a man survive without a woman around?
To clean up after them, tell then what to do...

Can you tell I am annoyed today?

I love my hubby-to-be but am feeling the need to give him a kick in the buns lately!!

Does anyone else feel this way about their hubbies? lol

~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

My 1st Blogger Award!!!!

YIPEE! My new awesome friend Holly @ holly-girlsatheart gave me my 1st award! The Kreativ Blogger! Wow, I never thought I was all that "Kreativ" but I'll take an award or compliment anyday! Thanks again Holly!

Ok forgive me but I have not yet figured out how to make the person's site links go directly to their blog yet, so if anyway can help me out that would be GREAT!!

But I nominate my 2 other favorite ladies on blogger:

Pea @ Pea's Corner

(I always enjoy the cool sites of Canada that she posts and she is a doll!)

AND...

Lori @ Pink Faded Roses

(Lori is my precious mom but I nominate her for all the cute pics she posts and to bring her a little extra holiday cheer. She is having a rough time this Holiday Season:(

Have a WONDERFUL day everyone!!
Oh, and please pray that I don't BOMB my Algebra test tonite, my DEGREE depends on it this semester!!!

HUGS!
~Noelle~

Morning Madness!

Even though my day started at 4:15 am today and I'm exhausted, its been a pretty good day. I did get out to try to finish Christmas shopping, it well pretty well. I told myself that I wasn't going to buy myself anything but I DID! I picked up a copy of this book, Multiple Blessings about the Jon and Kate Plus 8 family, whom I LOOOOOOVE! Every Monday night at 9 I try to watch the new episode. So this book is SO good! I have heard that its one of those that you can't seem to put down. I read the first 28 pages in probably 15 minutes this afternoon!

I also got me a really cute Gingerbread Shadow Box Photo frame,which I'll post a pic of later.

Gotta run, time to make dinner!

~Noelle

Mommy's Morning Out!

Tomorrow I am spending the morning with... ME, MYSELF and I!
First off, I am getting a nice warm coffee!! Then I'll drop Gavin off at school.

Next, I'm off to get a Pedicure for my cracked and crusty heels! (l0l)

Then I'm going to hit the tanning bed for a little bit of color! Can't be as white as the snow outside!

My final plan is to finish my Christmas shopping!! Woo-Hoo!
I need to get Brian's "big" gift, some gift cards, ornaments for gal-pals (we swap ornaments every year) and maybe something for me!

The weather has been so cold and I haven't had a chance to get my boys out to play in it. I think we all are getting cabin fever over here. We can go places but they hate shopping so that makes for a not so fun experience for us all:(

I can't believe Christmas is coming so soon either! My 30th birthday is on Dec. 22nd too-UGH! Some of my friends are taking me to dinner and maybe out for some dancing; I cannot wait! Living in a house full of males makes me yearn for that "girly" time I have with friends!

Hopefully I'll get my Christmas stuff all up tomorrow after noon and I'll have my pics up then!

Ta-Ta, Noelle

AND the WINNER is...

!!GINGERBREAD GIVE-AWAY!!

The winner is: Jennifer at Child of the King!

Here is Gavin's legs and monster slippers (lol) after he drew the name!!

Thank you to all the ladies that entered my give-away! It was so nice to meet some new gals on here:) Please keep on visiting me from time to time!

Jennifer... Please EMAIL me your address so I can get your GINGERBREAD GOODIES in the mail to you:) My email is: way2tiredmom78@hotmail.com.

~Noelle~

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~