Holiday Lights

Our Little Cozy Home - All decked out

Can you believe this was our first year we have ever put up Christmas Lights? Moving every 2 years or so has kept us so busy and we havent had the time or energy to do them. Well this year when Liz came down she inspired us by putting up the bush lights for us...
and we couldnt stop there..
so I went down to Walmart, one thing led to another...
and I brought home a bunch of lights!When Matts mom left he got to work on putting them all up. We all know how men love a new project right? heehee..

Well, Matt put up all but one of the red rope lights for my other pillar. I am still thrilled. I love my sweetheart-and appreciate all he did to make our house so cute on the outside!

December is here!! Up goes the TREE

I am so glad its this wonderful time of year! Full of traditions, parties, sweets and fun! The day after Thanksgiving, Matt worked really hard at putting up our tree..we have a fake one that we use every year and it saves us money. I do miss the pine smell..so maybe next year we will do real. Our poor trees lights this year werent working anymore.. so Matt went to work adding new colorful blinking ones.... Here is the finished product, not the best..but its our little tree and we LOVE it!

Under the tree is our Christmas books! We have 25 of them, so each night one of the children gets to unwrap a book and we all read it together! Its one of our favorite tradtions.


All the children helped place bulbs and ornaments on the tree - they love that part. We are currently in search of the perfect star.

Emily and Matt hard at work..slaving away getting our tree JUST RIGHT!

Double Dating!!

*Double DATE!* Woo hoo - we had some fun! First we went out to dinner at Cousins restaurant and ate - it was great! Then we went and stood in line to see Twilight the movie. We were there a half hour before show time..and we still ended up in the front rows at the movies..darn it all!Twilight was good, but also a bit of a dissapointment -- there were some cheesy moments in it. And Matt was nearly attacked by all the teen girls when he started giggling at the meadow scene..and his giggling got Angela giggling too!..I had to give him the stare of death..to get him to knock it off. We all thought the movie was just okay - but had a great time all together. I hope we can all go out again sometime!!