Christmas Is Coming!

So Christmas is fastly approaching and man what a busy time it's been for hubby and me. Between moving family, getting trees, visiting and decorating I still haven't had any time to bake or get the last of my shopping done. I'm very happy that I decided to take some time off before Christmas this year as maybe that way I can actually get some presents wrapped and under the tree!

So we started the month of December off by helping my MIL (mother in law) move into a beautiful new (to her) town house. So big compared to the 40 foot sail boat she was once living in. By the end of the night I was impressed at how much it was already looking like home. We've been in our place for 3 months now and it still looks like a war zone!

We've also done the annual tree hunt with our friends. Always fun and the kids enjoy it.


(I've been having fun with actions lately)

We found our friends their tree though after an extensive search. They have 15-20 foot vaulted ceilings and always look for the biggest tree on the lot.

With a little help...

(I title this one how many men does it take to cut down a tree...Hubby's on the backside holding it as well)

...they got it down.

Then it was our turn to search. After about 5 mins of wandering around we decided on this baby

It looked really good and it was getting cold

so we took it.

After that it was time for hot chocolate and warming up. Even the dogs though look like they had a good day.
(again playing with actions)

Finally last weekend we did our annual "Decorate Grandma and Grandpa's place, have dinner and walk down to the park to see the decorations and lights" night. When we got there though we were put to work right away vacuuming, decorating and dusting. Our reward was a wonderful meal and a great walk through the park to look at the lights. Of course I made the silly mistake of not checking my battery levels before I left and sure enough about 4 pictures later that was it! It was a lot of fun, a little cold but the kids had a great time and next year it will be great to see it through the eyes of the new little ones.

Christmas Spirit

Well it's that time of year again...CHRISTMAS! My favourite time of year.

So I'm starting to very slowly decorate the the townhouse. Nothing too extravagant yet but I have a few touches up. The first is always my old advent calendar


I have no idea when my parents gave it to me but it's always gone up December 1st no matter what. Well no matter what so long as I can find it. Every year I try to put it in a place I'll remember 11 months later and every year I'm wandering around trying to find that spot.

I've also gotten a couple of crafts done. First was this banner my mom gave me. It wasn't suppose to be a banner but each word instead was suppose to hang down separately. Well lets just say it's the last time I'm going to ever deviate from the instructions on something like this.


Also in between each of the letters is a bead and let me tell you...the ribbon they provided sure didn't want thread that bead. A little brute force and ignorance and I made it work.

And finally the last thing I'm quite proud of...my wreath. My mom has a million and one wreaths and I knew I could have borrowed one of hers but I felt like I wanted something I had done and I love how it turned out and how simple it was to put together.


Next it's tree time! We go on Sunday and I'm so happy that I get to join the group. I was suppose to be curling but I managed to find a spare. Can't wait to see what the day brings and what our tree is going to look like. Yay Christmas time!!!