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Christmas Recap

Sabriena — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:59:43 +0000

I’m a little late on the Christmas recap/tree decorating pictures but hey, what are you going to do?

Duncan wasn’t quite sure what to make of the Christmas tree.

Truth be told, when we brought it in he started crying.

Christmas trees are scary! Especially when your mom is laying on the ground underneath the tree to get the thing in the stand!

Our little soldier warmed up to it quite fast though. I took him over to it so that he could touch it and see that it wasn’t a boogeyman!

Decorating it was, eh. He didn’t quite know what to make of it. He liked touching the ornaments though.

I didn’t get very many pictures of the present opening because I was too busy enjoying the moment.

That’s the good thing about holidays though, you get wrapped up in the moment of just being. Then later you get mad at yourself that you didn’t take enough pictures to remember the moment.

Here’s a few of Duncan and Daddy opening some presents though!

Like what the cats have done to the couch?

Christmas was a blast. Duncan made out like a bandit and I loved his first Christmas.

We have how many days left?

Sabriena — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 04:34:44 +0000

I’m sitting here in bed, watching Family Guy and thinking about the number of days that there are left until Christmas. There are six days left. Six. This month has gone too fast and I have gotten nothing done.

I’m excited for Duncans first Christmas and quite hopeful that next year will be even better. There was so much that I wanted to do/buy that I just didn’t get to or have enough money for.

I will probably be doing a Christmas in January. It’s being with family that really matters anyway, right?

The Perfect Christmas Bathroom Set

Sabriena — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 05:19:10 +0000

While I was window shopping on the Bed Bath & Beyond website I found the perfect bathroom set that would be used for Christmas. Or in my case year around. Not just because I love Christmas. No no no! It is because I have an unhealthy obsession to snowmen.

If they had snowman anonymous, I would probably be that person that goes in and out of it because they just can’t kick their habit.

The first thing that I saw was the shower curtain. Could it be? The most beautiful shower curtain with snowmen that I have ever seen? Hooks to match? Yes, yes, yes!

Gorgeous! I would be in and out of the bathroom just staring at the curtain. Look how happy the snowman are!

Of course when you step out of the shower you have to step onto a mat. Matching of course. Snowmen, obviously!

But what about when you need to throw something away? A regular old waste basket just won’t do it in this snowman bathroom!

Do you see where I’m going with this? Snowman waste basket!

So it might not hold very much but it sure is cute and that is what I want!

Is it the end? Oh, no my friend, it is not.

You need a lotion dispenser for that sink! Well, I wouldn’t put lotion in it. I’d put soap. I don’t know who puts lotion on their sink instead of soap. Do you wash your hands with lotion? I sure don’t.

Now, you may be wondering about what you could use to dry yourself off with? Of course, they have that covered too! Boom. Boom. Drying powah!

I really wish they had a picture of the whole set together but, they don’t. That makes me a bit sad. It also makes my imagination work overtime.

It’s not too soon for Christmas

Sabriena — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 03:23:12 +0000

November has just begun. We just got over Halloween. The next holiday is Thanksgiving. However, all I am thinking about is Christmas.

Maybe because this is the first Christmas where I am a mother. Maybe it is because we, as a family, are getting out of our holiday funk. Who knows and who cares.

One of the things that have been on my mind is holiday cards and I need to get on it! This year I am going to be getting some Christmas cards done that have Duncan on them. I mean, who doesn’t want my cutie Duncan to greet them in the mail for the holiday season?

I am definitely getting them done through Shutterfly. Why? It’s quite simple. I’m impressed by their quality. It’s easy to upload pictures to their site and I love the results that I have gotten from them.

I was thinking of getting this one because I love snowmen and it has two of them. Not to mention a huge picture of Duncan can be put on there. Or perhaps I will go with this one:

There’s just so many to choose from! One thing I do know, if you are a family or friend, then look out for a cute Christmas card from us this season!

Whoops..14 days!?

Sabriena — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:56:11 +0000

I tried not to do this again but I guess my streak of blogging went away. I’ll blame it on the holidays and doctor’s appointments taking my time, except, I’ve also just been lazy.

So, on the doctor’s appointments, everything is fine. My blood pressure is still high and I got put on medication for it. They did labs for preeclampsia but said they all came back fine and I don’t have signs of it. Of course, following it up with “Just because you don’t have it now, doesn’t mean it won’t show up later!” Hey, thanks man!

The baby is doing fine though. I’m feeling the tyke daily now so that’s a good feeling, although strange at the same time!

Everything is else is going well though. Nothing huge happening besides the upcoming holidays. First Christmas without gramps…that’s gonna suck.

Christmas decorating shall be tomorrow!

Sabriena — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:08:29 +0000

I decided that tomorrow I am going to go down and clean the downstairs area and mom is going to pull the Christmas decorations and tomorrow will be the day for Christmas decorating.

Hey, it’s almost December and it is time to get this holiday cheer into gear! Christmas is my favorite holiday to decorate, the gifts, the baking, the songs! The altogether cheerful way people are in and the people that aren’t, screw them!

I am hoping that tomorrow we can get both the trees up and decorated as well because that is what really makes Christmas what it is.

Hopefully most of it gets done so we can get some pictures!

7 days and counting

Sabriena — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:27:18 +0000

We are now in single digits coming into the day for our very first ultrasound. Exciting!

Another exciting thing is that the weather is actually nice today. Unfortunately, by the time the 12th rolls around it’s going to be back in the 5o’s and raining. Of course.

Oh well, I do like the rain and cooler weather. As long as the ultrasound goes good, I’ll be fine.

It feels like Christmas jitters when you’re younger. You just want it to get here, you count down the days, of course it makes it go slower but you don’t mind.

I do mind! Hurry!

Did you notice the layout change? It’s simple. I love it.

The Main Gifts

Sabriena — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:53:06 +0000

Christmas morning is when we open our main Christmas presents. The ones that Santa brings to us. This year Santa went all out and even made them look fancy. My moms main gift? We had that bad boy professionally wrapped. You can see that it sure does pay off. Obviously, her present is the one in the white wrapping paper and with the pretty pink bow on it. We got her the 2007 Holiday Barbie. After the disappointment set in the night before from her “main gift” being a body pillow, this was a nice surprise. I loved the wrapping on it and it looked beautiful.

There was a teary eye that day. Oh wait…the other one was teary..that one is always teary! haha Leaky eye! Anyway, the main gifts look gorgeous to say the least. Everyone was happy with theirs. Jamie got Maplestory cards (he wanted them!), mom got her Barbie, Colton got a stereo system, Nick got a gameboy SP. I? Well, I got a Betty Crocker cake decorating kit that is just so awesome that I cannot wait until the birthdays start rolling in! I put in a picture of the gifts sitting under the tree! GORGEOUS!

The Boys Helping

Sabriena — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:40:08 +0000

During our baking day the boys in the house helped. If you know boys..then you know how they helped. Rough housing was definitely a plenty in the kitchen that day. At least it wasn’t arguing right? Anyway, Nick and Colton actually helped out for a bit. Nick looked really cute with his little apron on.

The first words out of his mouth when he came in to help was, “I need an apron!”. Mom went and found him one from the cabinet and although smelled a bit musty from being in there all year, it was cute on him. Of course, it isn’t a holiday without someone getting punched on (playfully of course) or put into some kind of headlock. Colton, Nick, and my darling husband (although sometimes would count as a kid, right?) were all there in the kitchen to help out with the entertainment for the evening. Somehow Jamie got

Nick into a headlock between his legs. I don’t know how it happened, but Nick was not very happy about it. He didn’t even want his picture taken when he was like that.

As you can see from him covering his face up in the picture. That was the best picture that I could get. It was a fun day all around though!

Christmas Baking

Sabriena — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:33:55 +0000

Last weekend we had our Christmas baking day. It of course ran off into the next day…then the next day. It never gets done in one day. It is always fun to try new recipes and have the family around sticking their grubby little hands out to “try” the stuff. Or whine because they can’t eat that whole plate of fudge. The kitchen looked like a war zone. Alright, it didn’t look that bad at all. We kept it fairly clean. Just the ingredients were all over the place. Here are a couple pictures of the one side of the counter.

Nice right? Looks messy but we knew where everything was! So, I made Peppermint Bark Hearts and cute snowman head cookies. Here they are:

So cute! These recipes are a keeper! Both found in a Christmas cook book from Betty Crocker!