Christmas cuties!

Apologies, this is my blog... I have ADD when it comes to changing my layout! LOL

I could NOT find a Christmas layout that I liked this year!

But this is my final selection for this month... I promise!

It kinda has an "old" Christmas feel to it and I love it!

So on our honeymoon in Gatlinburg, TN... hubby and I stumbled across a Christmas Store... EEK!

It was so cute! Oops, I am getting ahead of myself here.. the photo above was from outside of the Ripley's Aquarium that we went to in TN. I thought the set up was so cute, I had to take a pic!

Here is the Santa's workshop they had set up outside the aquarium too! So cute:)

This huge Christmas tree was outside; don't ask what those blocks stand for cause I have NO idea!

Ok, no that I have you confused and wondering if I've lost my mind...

Onto pics from the Christmas Store...

Very pretty tree! I have really been drawn to white Christmas trees lately.

Gingerbread ornaments galore! You can click on the pic to see it better.

Cute faux gumdrop and ribbon candy ornaments; now I wish I bought one of these too:(

So precious!! No, I didn't get this one either... (kicking myself now!!!)

The cutest little snowgirl with confetti inside the ornament ball ♥

The display set up in the store where Santa was going to be sitting for pics

and visits from all the lil girls and boys!

Loved the green ribbon on this tree!

Cute glittery snow people

This tree was done up with faux desserts and candy ornaments! It was so cute:)

Right up my mom's alley!

Precious!! I had to tell  myself NO cause I already have a Gingerbread stocking!

$75.00 for this lil gingerbread house that was part of a village!!!

Needless to say it did NOT come home with me!

Here is the GORGEOUS tree outside the shop with lil caroler cutouts you could have your pic taken with!

Don't you love those BLUE lights????

Painted windows outside the shop; so pretty.

This is the ornament I got for the tree this year!!

The yellow guy, Pikachu from Pokemon is for the boys and

 my  hubby picked out the dad from Family Guy as his ornament!!

We like to get an ornament each year for the boys with the year on it.

Our lil Gage loves moose's so here is his!

We thought this one was perfect for our oldest son, the video game junkie!

Me and my handsome hubby at that aquarium ♥

And here is a sneak peek of my swap partner Michele's package that went out today!

We were partners in Heidi's Homemade Christmas Swap!

Got that cute lil mitten ornament from Target and the handmade item is wrapped in the package below it!

I also sent Michele's some other goodies as well:)

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A couple things...

(1) My dad is not doing well. He cancer has spread to his spine, there are many bony lesions throughout his body and on his ribs and in the intestines. Things are not looking very good at this point. His cancer is at a stage 4. The last time I saw him was a week and a half ago; he found out that day that the cancer has spread. I found out today that he has refused his last 3 radiation treatments:( A bone biopsy is being done tomorrow; which I need to speak to his dr. about because I was not aware that this would be done. I am SO scared and worried for him girls. He can't speak so there's no way he can tell me how he is feeling, I've asked him to write to me on paper his thoughts, feelings... but he won't. Its so sad to see him "giving up" already. I am going with my brother on Monday to see him, I hope he perks up a little then. Please continue to keep him in your prayers.

(2) I am trying to be positive about everything in life. My "lifestyle change" of eating has gone downhill the past few weeks with the wedding, honeymoon, holidays, etc. My dr. is really on my case to get my insulin levels down. I need to try to focus on eating good again. I DID get a NEW part time job as a Literacy Tutor with grades K-3; it will be 8-12 hours a week after school; I will do that along with the daycare job I have on Thurs/Fridays. We are really stressing about giving our boys a nice Christmas this year. We found out today that the transmission on our SUV is leaking which is a MUST to get fixed, so that takes away from money for the holidays! It just seems like if its NOT one thing, its ANOTHER!! Do you ever feel like that?

My hubby is looking into 2 different potential jobs, I just pray that he lands the ONE! He needs a change of pace, better pay and good benefits; I think that would ease our struggles as well.

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Here's to as Happy of a Holiday Season as we can have...

Sorry to be a "Debbie Downer" here; its just SO hard to deal with all of this, during this Christmas season.

Hugs to you all ...

Thanks for all your support!

Love ya,

Noelle ♥

Wedding Q and A

Here it is... the post where you can ask anything... well, ALMOST anything (LOL) about our wedding!!

Aren't the pops of color on this photo SO pretty?

This is super cute ♥

Ok... shoot, ask away!

I will reply to your questions in the comment section of this post!

This will be fun!

I CANNOT wait to hear what "inquiring minds want to know"!!!

Hugs,

Noelle ♥

Eeeek!! Wedding pics are in!!

Good morning!! I cannot stop smiling since yesterday because I got back the flash drive from our photographer with almost 1,500 photos/collages on it! She did a FAB-U-LOUS job ♥

Sooo... I am going to show about 10 today and weed in more as I get them sorted out!

Here are my current TOP 10 faves!! The one above is a collage of my dress; I love how she picked up on all the details of the dress! I felt SO beautiful on our wedding day in this dress; I NEVER once thought about my arms being flabby or my wiggly, jiggly belly!! I never in a million years thought I could feel SO good!

Here is our oldest son Gavin! He was the ONLY ring bearer that made it down the aisle and made us super proud by accepting my offer of him doing the first reading at our mass! He is the sweetest boy ♥

This is a super funny and cute collage of our youngest son Gage!

He never made it into the church the day of the wedding; he was so cranky!

My sister in law and niece kept him in the "cry room" of the church where he played cars with my nephew during the whole ceremony!! What a stinker!

I looove this one!!

This is like one of my #1 faves... it just oozes with romance ♥

Look at his smile! I sent a card over to him from me before the wedding; it said: "On the sea of love, you are my soul matey" ♥

Here is my handsome husband getting ready, showing off the rings to his dad & bro's

and posing with our lil boys!!

This is a pretty collage of me, our boys and my girls that were in the wedding!!

We looked so glam;)

Very pretty collage from the church and ceremony!

During our vows, Father called my husband Brian, "Kevin"!

We looked at Father like "What?" Brian corrected him, Father laughed and told everyone that the reason he said that was that a new Bishop named Kevin was ordained that week and he just read about him in the paper that morning!! LOL

Our first dance ♥

We danced to "Could Not Ask for More" by Edwin McCain.

~Thanks for stopping in today to see wedding pics with me~

Its been so fun sharing our wedding journey with all of you!!!

Hugs,

Noelle ♥

I can't stop saying... MY HUSBAND ♥

Hi girls! I am back with a fixed computer and OMG! I've got some blogging fever!

Forget the housework this week, I want to chat!! LOL

I am going to pick up the disks from our photographer today... Wedding Photo Time!

The shot above is one she sent me in an email saying "You have got to see this!"

Pardon my French, but daaaaaaaaaaaamn my hubby looks fine here ♥

I cannot stop saying "husband"! I just feels so right to finally be able to call him my hubby

after sooo many years!!!!

Didn't the bouquet come out so pretty?

I had to have a fresh bouquet full of roses (she used 2 dzn.) and with red berries; I never actually saw what it would look like till my wedding day and it was PERFECT:)

And... onto the honeymoon!

Here we are at a top of a mountain that we rode a ski lift up to...

Here is the ski lift seats!

I felt like a dare devil on our honeymoon...

I am usually afraid heights so I had a tough time talking myself into going on this thing!

The first plan was to take this lift halfway up the mountain side, then get off to go down on their Alpine Slide which was like a little scooter board you sat on and rode down a "slide" through the mountainside. I was all about going down the slide buuuut, didn't know I had to ride the darn lift to get there. So as we got on the ski lift, I went into panic mode and was crying like a BIG WIMP!! I had white knuckles holding onto the bar that just RESTED over us and then squeezed Brian's arm with my other hand! He could NOT believe I was crying!! I can look back now and LOL about that:)

So after we went up the mountain, then down the Alpine Slide he talked me into riding the lift again which was MORE fun that time. I decided to be a Bad A*S and say "Ok, I will ride to the top of the mountain this time" I did it without tears and it was so cool!! The pic of us above standing by that tank looking thing was taken at 3,590 feet in the air... COOl huh??

A hazy view of the mountains...

Something about being up in the mountains is SO peaceful and serene; I absolute fell in love with it!

I want to move to the mountains someday!!

The quiet and privacy is perfect!

Here I am, with my new pink gloves Hubby had to buy me cause my fingers were freezing!

Here is Mr and Mrs ♥

The ride down the mountain was a lil more steep; but I handled it alright!!

Isn't this beautiful?

Here are a couple shots of our cabin...

Hubby was trying to get a fire started for us!

This is the living room area...

Our huge King sized bed... a-hem ;) It was pretty cozy if I must say ♥

Dining room area... I loved all the wood!

Wasn't a huge fan of the cowboy and indian decor especially the two larger photos of Indians that faced our bed!!! Spies, I say!!! LOL

The kitchen...

with a DISHWASHER, I'm in love!! No dishwasher here at my house:(

The cabinets and counters were lovely, must like what I WANT to have, one day!

The 2nd floor with a pool table and foozball table too.

The 2nd floor king sized bed that had dead flies on it... ewww!!

I guess the flies had been really bad with wanting to get inside the cabins since the cold weather hit!

A view of the windows on the 2nd story.

There also was a cute little loft on the 2nd floor as well.

And lastly I will leave you with a gorgeous view of the sunset!

I was all about getting back to the cabin to see a sunset in the mountains and Boy, was it beautiful!

I have LOTS more pics like these to share with  you all!

I hope you enjoyed the pics!

We had a fab honeymoon!!

Can't wait to share some more details with ya:)

Love,

Noelle ♥

I Miss BLOGGING :(

HI friends! I hope you all had a fab Thanksgiving?? Ours was pretty relaxed, for once!

I have to admit that I am feeling very sad now that we are back from our honeymoon:( We had the most amazing, relaxing and romantic time together! I think I want to move to TN! This week has been so rough with our boys,  its like they are punishing us for being gone! I feel sad that the wedding is over; the day flew by soooo fast, I barely remember anything!! Today is Black Friday and had no $ to go Christmas shop:( I am shooting to get my Christmas decor up in a couple days so I hope that brings some holiday cheer!

I terribly miss blogging! I miss hearing what all my gals are up to! Our computer was taken today to get fixed, I am hoping to have it back this weekend! I have TONS of honeymoon pics to show! The wedding pics should be done within a few days too from our fab photographer! I am finishing up my 2 Christmas swaps I am in as well.

Here is another sweet wedding photo above! I have to say that I felt so beautiful on our wedding day!! I NEVER feel that way on a daily basis and for my husband to tell me I was "stunning"; I had to have had it GOING ON!!! (LOL)

Update on my date... NOT good news! A recent CT scan this past week showed that cancer has spread to his spine. There is a tumor on a bone in his neck that is pressing down on a nerve; causing him the paina nd weakness on his right side. OH!! Last Monday, they removed his trach and a few hours later he stopped breathing and they had to perfrom 2 rounds of CPR which brought back his pulse and also left him with a few broken ribs too. I am SO worried about him and sad that he has to go through. He started radiation this week as well. Please continue to keep him in your prayers too ♥

I love you all and miss you bunches!!

Please don't think I am ignoring your blogs; when I get a chance to post at my mom's or mother in laws, that is all I really have time to do. Not much visiting has been on the agenda for me :(

I hope to be back here soon!!!!

Big hugs ♥

Noelle ... Mrs.K ♥

Back to Reality!

Hey girls! We got back Saturday from Gatlinburg; what a wonderful honeymoon!!! My cell phone is completely dead, my charger broke! Annndddd... our computer is BROKE!! Sooo... I'm a bit grumpy cause I can't get in touch with all you girls!! I am at my m-i-l's house today but don't have much time to post! So look for a nice post on Turkey Day with some more pics from the wedding and honeymoon!!

Other than for the technology troubles, I am happy to report that I am NOW a happily married woman!!! Life has been so great!! Can't wait to share more details with all of you!

If you haven't signed up for my Ornament SWAP yet, there still is time... I will be assigning partners later this week! To sign up for my swap, click HERE!

Chat with you all real soon!

Love ya,
Noelle

The NEW Mr. and Mrs. "K" ♥

Its official, we are MARRIED!! OMG, girls I cannot even describe the way I feel!!

First off, the WEATHER... sunny, warm like 64 with a breeze!

God answered my prayers for lovely weather!

This photo above is a "sneek peek" from our FAB photographer; she emailed me a couple pics today to give me a "taste" of what we are getting! I am SO IN LOVE with this photo; I could just cry!

After the ceremony (which went wonderfully minus the fact that our lil 2 year old Gage was a tired wreck and never made it into church for the ceremony! He was in the "cry room" with my niece and sister in law the whole time!!) We took some pics after the ceremony in church and outside!

Brian and I went over to the B&B we were staying at and took pics on their property which is where this pic above was from!!! ♥

Here is another fun one at the B&B; I seriously felt like he was going to DROP ME!! hehehe:)

We had so much fun together during this one-on-one shoot!

I could just feel the love for me pouring out from him on this day!

He told me that when he saw me coming down the aisle at Church; he thought "wow"  and that I was "stunning"!! GOOD WORDS, BABE!! ♥

Here is a shot of our gorgeous wedding cake, not sure why this one came out small!

After the ceremony was over!

I must say... we make a CUTE couple!

(Look how happy he is!!!!)

Ok, ok... I was doing a tribute to Michael Jackson's song "Beat It"! LOL

I was sweaty and gross feeling!

Time to cut the cake!!

We were nice to eat other and didn't smear it:)

Sooo... what do you think of my gown?

I loved it so much, and got lots of compliments on it!

It felt good to be so lovely for a day ♥

More pics to come! We are leaving Tuesday for our honeymoon to Gatlinburg, TN!

We cannot wait!!!!

Love,

Mrs. K ♥