O Christmas Tree!

Here is our lovely family Christmas tree and the hams that are helping to decorate. They love the fact that they get to put breakable stuff on the tree. Abby & Maggie were great helpers and so patient to wait until Mom & Dad could get the lights and ribbon just right! Check out the lovely branch with 101 ornaments on it. Can you guess who might have done the honors? She was so sweet about decorating and worked so hard. I didn't have the heart to rearrange all of them so there they will stay until we take the tree down in January. Good job Maggie! Good job Abby (such a special little helper!). I'll post more pictures as I get the rest of my house decorated. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get!!!!

Merry Christmas to all...

This is the Christmas card I made for an exchange I participated in with the members of my card making class this year. It's my first attempt at an exchange. I think the card turned out pretty good. All the ladies loved it! There are of course a few things I might have done different. On the inside I included a CD of Christmas music that I burned. They especially loved the CD and it worked out great for my class because we listened to it all night while we made cards! Hope you like it.

Abby's first day of 1st grade! Sissy had to of course share in the lime light. She still thinks she is going to big girl school. Abby is into the 2nd week of school and still loves it. I think they must have had a drill at school today. It was a "lock down". I'm hoping it was just a drill (I was out of town for the day). I think she was pretty scared though. She said she shook. I think the jest of it was that they were supposed to get into the corner of the room away from the doors and windows (in case somebody would be shooting at them). What the hell has this world come to?! It is so scary to think that's what our kids have to worry about. I will have to find out a bit more about the incident tomorrow.

Saturday was Jamie's bridal shower. One month until her big day! I can't believe it's almost here. Here's a picture of the fantastic bouquet I designed. I shouldn't quit my day job! Later me, mom, dad and Jamie went out for the batchelorette party. It was nice but kind of lame. I wish we could have had more of Jamie's friends and Stacey there. It does however re-confirm why I do not drink so much anymore! Let it be known I wanted to stay out but everyone else wanted to go home at 10:00! Thank goodness we did. Who knows what kind of hangover I would have had.

Happy 4th of July! I thought I would post this picture. It was such a great day. We were waiting for the parade. We thought it started at 9 but it didn't start until 9:30 I think. The girls were very patient. It gave us time for Abby to join the Caledonians while they walked down the parade trail! She had a great time but it was very hot!