A Blue-Blue Christmas

Actually, more of a teal, turquoise type of Christmas.

Linds and I had this great idea after last Christmas: Lets do a color themed tree!

So I let her choose….and choose she did.

We already had a lot of silver, white & cream, so we only needed a little bit of the blueish colors to accent; and when you buy after Christmas they practically pay you to take the ornaments.

I was scared. 

I was scared it was going to be tacky. 

I'm weird like that.

But I'm glad I forged through my scared-ness because I love our blue-sih/teal/turquoise tree.

Angel Wings and Disco Balls; pretty much sums up our family. 

Now, please don't get all cra-cra about us having a fancy-ish tree.

We have another tree in the family room. Lindsay lovingly refers to it as the 'janky' tree…..and not because of the decor, but because of the size/texture/shape of the tree.

Ok, it might contain some janky/funky/silly ornaments too. 

In case you thought Cocoa was of any help, here is your confirmation that she is not. Actually, I could hardly hear the Christmas music over her snoring. 

It took me over a week to get all the decorations up. In the past it only took a day or two; what is happening to my life???

Is your tree up yet….and are you more on the fancy side or the janky side?

The good, The bad, The ugly

Wednesday night I arrived home from work at 5 p.m. 

Linds was already home, but kinda sweaty from dance/school…her hair looked as though it didn't care about anything. 

Lolo pulled in a few minutes behind me from her LONG day at school, and I started my rant/shouting rage: 

"Get pretty, we've got 25 minutes to take Christmas photos before the sun goes down!"

"What are you doing? Brush your hair, get out of those yoga pants! I said GET PRETTY!"

The Good

Wait, did you think I was the cool, calm collected type of Mom? 

That makes me chuckle. 

I'm really not a maniac. BUT, it is so hard to get the two of them home DURING daylight at the same time. 

Therefore, my maniac-ness is justified. 

 The Bad

Actually, if you knew Ozzie, his bad end IS his mouth. 

 The Ugly

 This happened in the middle of the night the weekend before Thanksgiving. No one heard anything…..even though some {me} of us  have exceptional hearing.

Our mailbox is used to being run over by careless people, but our fence is usually safe. 

Whoever did this, well, they had a mess of a vehicle come Saturday morning. 

Lolo was first on the scene Saturday morning….and she did her best as a CSI investigator. 

Her determination: the vehicle 'had' black side mirrors. 

*had* 

The good is that THIS Saturday our run plowed over fence area will be repla$ed. 

It's always something….whether good or bad, we try to roll with it.

Have a great weekend my friends.

XOXOXO

It's could be a very interesting party~

 I merely sent a text to the Coach asking for an address for our Christmas party….and then the innocent question: 

Anyone else you'd like to invite?

The turtle Momma is Kay from Duck Dynasty. I'm good with that whole  list aside from the scary one; Sinead Grim Reaper.

And yes, the Coach's name in my phone is 1 husband, that way he'd always be first on my list: after all, he IS my favorite husband.

Happy Humpday my friends!

XOXO

Giving Thanks and Laughing

We had a fabulous Thanksgiving week; I LOVE my people!

So many great things happened….every single day.

There was shopping. Cooking. Talking. Laughing. Eating. Laughing. Cooking. Shopping. Laughing.
Laughing. Laughing. Laughing. 

We had some new friends this year….actually total complete strangers who fit in just like a crazy ole' 6 fingered glove. 

That's how we roll around here. 

Roulette.

Laughing.

And don't tell the gambling po-po, but we let a 4 year old run the tables around here.

Corn Hole.

Laughing.

Posing.

Laughing.

Laughing.

Cooking. 

Cooking.

Laughing.

posing. 

We had a full house all week, but on Thanksgiving the number went up to 17!!!

After dinner; sigh, we pulled it off again!

Suz, Aunt Trisha, Linds, Mom. Where is LoLo? Must be in the kitchen picking off turkey skin…..

My MIL Judy is so funny. After dinner, she changed out of her dinner attire and into football attire….oh, and little wine pre-football made her run faster!

It is mandatory that Cocoa has her own football so that we can actually PLAY football. 

Playing football makes you run AND laugh. 

One end zone was the garden…the other was the woods. Luckily, no produce was injured in this game. 

All remnants of Turkey week are put away…..and we've started moving into Christmas!

I hope you all had a wonderful week as well; filled with good people and much laughter!

I had to capture my Uncle Jim and Cuz Patrick as they were leaving Saturday; real men wear PINK!

Hey, did you know it's December?? 

XOXO