~A Peek of Our Thanksgiving Week~

Justin and I put our downstairs Christmas tree up a few days before Thanksgiving!  He is such a great little helper to his Mommy.

Here is the bow we got for the tree topper.

Here is the candle I'm burning in our downstairs family room.  It is by Yankee Candle and it is called Spiced White Cocoa.  It has a nice light scent of hot cocoa.

Justin had one of his best friends stay the night, so the next morning I took them to breakfast, then to go Pokemon hunting, and then to the Cosmosphere.  They had a lot of fun!

The Cosmosphere's gift shop had it's tree up!

Here is Megan, she let me take her photo!!!

We had a very nice Thanksgiving day.  Tristyn and Kaylee came over!

We ate a lot of good food!  Perhaps a bit too much.

Later that afternoon, we put our upstairs Christmas tree up.  This is the tree that my sweet sister Tricia had given to us so many years ago.  It is decorated with all the beautiful ornaments my parents have given to us over the years.  If you look close on the second photo, you can see the western Barbie ornament that my sister Tricia bought for me last Christmas from Hallmark Cards.

I had to put out my Thanksgiving smurfs for Thanksgiving.  

And now...we have the Christmas smurfs out for our Christmas decor.  I think you can tell I was a child of the 80's.  I loved the smurfs and watched them every Saturday morning.  My little shelf that you see here is getting painted the aqua color that I love so much.  I am doing that later today, so in my next blog entree I will show a before and after photo.  I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving, I truly am thankful for my beautiful family, my friends and all of you who visit my little space here.  God bless and Hugs.  Juli

A Peek into Our Week~

Steven painted our shed to match our little house.  He is going to paint the accents white.

Lauren organized her little armoire and her closet.

I painted our kitchen door and the cabnets in our kitchen so they would be fresh and clean looking.

I've been burning two of my new candles.  Hot Cocoa & cream by Bath & Body Works and Merry Berry Linzer by Yankee Candle.

I have been enjoying the mixing bowl my Mom purchased for me!

Here are a couple of the wax melts I've been using this last week.

Here are Steven and Justin getting breakfast at the hotel we stayed at in Lawrence.  

Here is a photo of the house that I grew up in, before my parents had there dream house built.  I loved this little house so much!

Here is Justin and my sister Lori.  Can you tell they are related?

My cousin Teri, my sister Trish and my Mom all met for coffee at McDonald's.  It was such a nice time.  I loved getting to visit with Teri.  She is starting a new blog in January so I will share her blog address when it is up and running!  Sweet Teri gave each of us a Russell Stover chocolate bar!

We went to my sister Lori's home for my sweet little niece's 2nd birthday celebration.  We normally go down on Thanksgiving, but we are having our own Thanksgiving meal this year and Tristyn and Kaylee are coming to celebrate with us.  Lori's home was so warm and cozy. 

Here are some of the photos I took of Lilah's party.  Lori even made three different kinds of home made ice cream!

Here is a photo of Lilah's room and I couldn't resist taking a picture of her cute little shoes!

I took Lauren to our Starbucks this afternoon!

Here is Lauren driving around town today!

This is what I plan to do this evening.  Relax and chill in my cozy comfy night gown that my sweet sister Lori got for me.  She is so thoughtful and good to me.  It has been years since I had a flannel night gown.  I forgot how awesome they are!  Well I think I will go and brew myself a cup of decaf coffee and enjoy my Sunday night.  Hope you all had a wonderful weekend.  

A Peek Into Our Week~

I found a Christmas candle that I liked at T J Max.  It is by Village Candle and it is called Peppermint Mocha.  It smells quite nice.

I have one of these Aviatior music Center's down in our basement family room, but I had been wanting one for my room.  I actually think the one down stairs is a Crosly brand.  QVC had them on clearance so I got one for my room.  I have the Smokey Mountain Christmas CD in it now, reminds me of the Ozarks.  I love Blue Grass music and I love Christmas music, so this is perfect for me.  The neat thing about this music center is it actually has blue tooth so I can listen to my Amazon music from my phone on it.  It also has a place to play records, tapes, CD's and radio and a aux cord and a place to plug in a jump drive.  I of course love that it looks old fashioned.

 I got Tristyn a new pair of cotton pajamas.  I usually get him a new pair every winter.

I've been going into my room and playing my Amazon fire place video quite a lot.  It just feels cozy and I love the crackling sound.

I made a dozen cinnamon rolls for the teacher's appreciation lunch at Justin's school this week, and there were seven extra ones that our family got to enjoy!

 This morning for breakfast I made myself a mushroom and green pepper omelet with cheese and Hollandaise sauce.  It was quite good.

This is the guest room closet and where we keep Megan's clothing and other things we are saving such as some of Tristyn's things.  It was in great disorder as you can see from these photos.  The worst closet in our house, so I got to work on it.

Here is what it looks like now.  It is still more than I would like to have, but some of the items are things we just have to hold onto.  There is a group of really nice shirts that some of our friends gave for Justin that just don't fit quite yet, but are nice enough to hang onto until they do.  The box of files I need to organize and put in our apartment file cabinet down stairs.  Steven just gave me them a few days ago, and I have not had a chance to get them done yet.  All and all I think it looks better than it did.

In my kitchen I am burning Root Beer Float by Yankee.  I really like it.  Love the photo, we are big root beer fans.

This is my wax stash of my favorite scents that I get quite a lot of, as I melt them all of the time.  They include the following, Honey Bourbon Frosting, Cider House Donuts, Pink Velvet and Sugared Lavender Twist.

 Steven is working on our little house this weekend.  He put on all new face plates for our outlets and light switches.  They look much nicer than the old ones that had come with our house.  He is also painting the shed and the family room down stairs. 

I have a tin with hot coco packets inside and some marshmallows and candy canes for people to enjoy in their hot coco.  I do this every Christmas when I can get my hands on Candy Canes.  All in all it has been a pretty quiet weekend so far.   Megan is napping because she spent the night with a friend last night and I'm sure got only a bit of sleep.  Steven is heading out to work on the shed, Justin is playing his video games, Lauren is experimenting with her make up and taking photos to update her profile pictures.  I got the lunch mess cleaned up and beds made, vacuuming and sweeping done and am working on laundry.   In the living room I have and Apple Pie wax melt going and in the bed rooms I have pink velvet.  I really love the pink velvet scent.  It is my favorite right now.  Of course It will change again in a week or two.  I hope you all have a very wonderful and relaxing weekend!  Hugs.  Juli