Our house on Christmas Day

I have more pictures on my camera, these are off my cell phone but you get the idea ^_^ I got my sister Heather and her hubby a Kuerig and the holder it sits on and holds 36 k-cups and they loved it. The kids loved thier gifts as well ^_^ It was a great day till i sadly had to say goodbye to my girls at noon as they went to his house for winter break.

Our tree

Our Christmas tree this year ^_^

Our Christmas Tree

I let the girls do the entire tree this year, well with some help from me lol. So here is our beautiful tree this year. poor Santa barely fits on top! I had to tip the tree slightly while i stood on the coffee table to put him up there.

A very Merry Christmas and a birthday!

 The girls saw Santa Claus at our company Christmas party

 The girls in their new dresses on Christmas day (The total for these dresses from Sears was about $120.00 USD but we got them on sale for $30!!!)

 My favorite niece Mina! It was her first Christmas

 My 2nd Nephew Poe who is 14 months old is walking! Uncle Mike had sneaked in a Dallas Cowboys outfit and secretly changed Poe's clothes when mommy and daddy were being kept occupied. 

 Our 3rd nephew weylyn snuggling with his Uncle Mike. It was his first Christmas too!

 Here is my DH snuggling up with both Mina and Weylyn. He loves being an Uncle!

 Nana got Destiny an easy bake oven so she just had to make S-mores for her and her sister

Here is Kiley making them both some hot chocolate in her new Tinkerbell mugs to enjoy while they eat their S-mores. 

Manzo my favorite Maine Coon turned 4 yrs old on Christmas day! 

Merry Christmas!

Christmas and visit update

Destiny was thrilled to get to feed her cousin the first day we arrived and of course Kiley is sitting there waiting to get to hold him.My moms adorable tomcat Philadelphia, she adopted him from petco and he loves sleeping in this box that has a book in it my mom was suppose to return months ago.My younger sister Heather holding our adorable nephewMy older sister with of course her son, baby PoeMy nephew Rowan being goofy, he s so hyper and loud, I think it makes me happy that I have two girls lolMy moms Bernese Mountain Dog, Panda, who is just a huge teddy bear and loves the kids so much plus he is a huge mommas boy.And our Christmas tree with all the pressies under the tree.I found a little sewing machine for $20 at Michael's and was so thrilled! I think this has to be Destiny's favorite gift though they both got lots of barbies and a barbie jeep to boot! LOL The holidays were great though we didn't get to go out for New Year's but its ok, DH and I watched TV shows and then slept.

Well thats it for today. I'm looking for a new TUSAL container as I want to do it again this year.

Happy Stitching!

Christmas and stitching

So here is a few Christmas pictures. I made this cherry pie from scratch and everybody loved it. I also made German cookies for the first time and DH's grandparents loved them so much they took some home! Huge compliment for me. :) Everybody had a great time and the kids were drowning in gifts as they had pressies sent from Wyoming and Texas from family. By the evening we were all ready for an early bedtime. How was everyone's Christmas?
And here is My lady of snow. The dark blue part on the left extends all to the width of her dress at this part so as soon as this area is complete I plan to stitch upwards and work towards her head and the owl. I also ordered a scroll frame so i can hopefully put her on it and be able to attach the beads as I go so there won't be a bunch of emtpy spaces.

Alright! So how was everybody's Christmas? Did you get everything you wanted and more? For me it has always been about seeing the joy in peoples faces when they open up gifts that I have gotten them. Thats what makes me happy Christmas morning. And I got quite a few squeals of joy from the girls so I think it went okay. I didn't make such a huge dinner this year though. Just Apricot glazed ham, mashed yams, biscuits, pumpkin pie, banana nut bread, fruit salad, and corn. It was nice that my DH's grandparents made it here. They had been sick for several weeks before and weren't sure if they would make it here and then the night before christmas thy called and said they were going to take the train out here so we got to have them after all. It was nice, I think everybody had fun.

Okay I had to show these off. Its an antique vanity set that my mom got me this year. I don't have any antiques until she got me this and its in awesome condition and its purple my fav color, well at least the flowers are, lol. So now I can say thanks mom you have peaked my interest in antiques! :) And now for some photos of my house decor from xmas including our tree which only has one stitched ornament on it given to me in an ornie exchange this year.

okay these reindeer cookies I did not do but someone in my daughters Sure start class did and I thought it was neat so I just wanted to share a pic of them.

And as promise a picture of what I got my husband for xmas. The Dallas Cowboys clock I had gotten him earlier this year. You can't really see the autograph in this picture but is there at the left side of Aikman.

And now just a few cute pictures of my daughters that we took over the weekend. Don't you just love the finger up the nose shot? LMAO It seems to be the only way at times that Kiley will take a picture so I can't tell you how many pictures we have of her with her finger up her nose. The doll Destiny is holding is a Baby Belinda doll that once batteries inserted says mama, giglles, cries, makes eating noises when the bottle is placed into her mouth, and yes even makes sleeping noises. The nurse at her school bought her this but we told her it was from Santa Claus since technically the nurse isn't allowed to buy the kids things like this. But she sees Destiny 3 times a day for her diabetes so they have grown to be good friends. And the final picture of Kiley I love, She justhas this lil attitude on her face that cracks me up! I am no sure why the red bags under her eyes, But she does not have them, I told my DH she looks like a druggie that way. But she has been sick lately and has not been sleping all too well. Both kids will go see the Dr. this week too. Destiny even has a throat infection to add on top of her cold but the powder medication her German Dr gave us makes Destiny throw up so we have to take her to the American clinic and see if they can give us a liquid one.