Archives for December 2008

B got a motorized scooter from Santa. Evidently those elves didn’t test it out b/c it doesn’t work! We tried everything, and nothing… How do you explain calling the 1-800 # and them sending some new parts via Fed Ex to a 5 yr old? And Santa has a 1-800 #?

Here is G modeling his new helmet and rain boots. His favorite gift of all … balloons! We could have saved SO much money.

Here’s Sissy Christmas Day! She loved all the paper and tissue of course.

And here is little Mallory in her new Pottery Barn chair that Browder requested on her behalf. It didn’t take him 5 minutes to get it back to his room along with his and G’s chairs. He is a fort-making fool.

Browder’s best present was/is a Ms. Pac-Man joystick plug & play game. He and Jeff pretty much fight over it. It has 5 old school Atari type games on it (you know…. Gallaga-msp?). It’s just our speed. Who needs Wii when you can play Ms. Pacman?

I’ve enjoyed my time off tremendously! I’ve rediscovered things I used to enjoy, like sitting on the couch watching The Today Show, and going to bed at 8:00!! I’ve done very little sewing ~ just a few things for my kids that had dust on them. I’ll be doing a little this week (catching up from last week’s don’t-need-it-til-after-Christmas stuff). I’m about out of stabilizer and am low on some thread, so I need to stock up while I’m “off” as well. We took all of our Christmas down yesterday, then cleaned the garage and house. The kids are all going to Enterprise Tues. so Jeff & I can go on vacation – back to our house. We plan to paint Browder’s room and go eat at Bonefish Grill. That’s as far as we’ve gotten… no big NYE plans as of yet!

I changed my background from the Christmas one. Still playing around with it! I am so confused as to what day it is!? Jeff is off work all week and with Christmas and all that I can’t keep up.

This turtleneck was done for a little sister ~ her big brother is playing Upward Basketball next month! How sweet and how cute! I’ll have to make G a t-shirt for Browder’s soccer games!

Just something I thought of about the snowman patch on the right (because I’m doing it on something now) ~ you can also just use the patch (wavy outline) with any fabric, nix the snowman and do an initial or monogram or whatever! I’m able to cut & paste like that!

Here is G at my mom’s house in my dad’s old Shriner hat. He is so cute when he’s not getting into trouble! If we can just hold on a bit longer and get out of the 2’s!!!!!!!!!!!

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Isn’t this cute wrapping paper? Hobby Lobby – huge roll which has gridlines on the underside and half price of course!! Reminds me of Minnie Mouse? I had some red & white polka dot ribbon I was tying in with the tulle (my other new fave thing) but I can’t find it. Hobby Lobby has awesome wrapping paper and a lot of it you can use after Christmas! I got some black & white houndstooth paper a few years ago that is cute w/ hot pink ribbon.

I saw this tree skirt on another blog or website and thought it was the cutest thing!! I’m guessing it’s some sort of canvas material with pom poms around and then painted – I’d love some of these for the kids Christmas trees! Maybe I could applique something similar since I can’t paint?? Or at least the vehicle parts.