Crazy busy times lie behind and ahead of us. So many parties and whatnot! We went to Levi's work party last night - thanks to a good friend who was willing to babysit!! It was a good party with lots of great food!! Despite all the seafood, I actually was mostly in love with the gouda and pineapple. Yes. Weird. I may need to buy some gouda tomorrow... and maybe a pineapple if I can find one. This weekend will be crazy as well: 3, yes 3, parties on Friday; lunch, a wedding reception and another party on Saturday; and we really need to get tithing settlement done sometime on Sunday. Levi has been working late the past few Sundays so we haven't been able to get it done yet. December is just a busy month! And the kids are still little! Bring on the concerts and plays a few years down the road... ;)
I finally got a {Homemaker Day} today, which I haven't had in a while, and which also didn't really turn out :( I burned the granola - still edible, but sad - and swayed from my favorite bread recipe to try a new one which yielded bread that wouldn't rise and turned out hard. Hmph. We're running out of bread, and I don't want to buy more - because the kind I love, Dave's Killer Bread, is a little pricey - so I decided to make some today. Fail. I will get around to it later this week with my trusty honey and flaxseed recipe :) I did manage to salvage the granola with some marshmallows, making it more into granola treat pieces... sometime like that. By cooking it too long it came out way too crumbly, so the marshmallows kind of hold it together now and cover the burn flavor a bit.
Anyway, I've been meaning to blog for about a week and a half now, and I kept thinking of things to blog about, but of course I forgot by now :S I did pass my CMA exam! Yay! This resulted in a raise at work and the permission to give injections to patients as well. Double YAY!! I could give injections at school and during my internship, but not when I got hired... I understand the legalities, but I still found it slightly ironic. It's such a relief now, though, to not have to find another "nurse" to give injections to my patients! Yeah, we're all called "nurses." Patients don't care whether you're an RN, LPN, or CMA, if they have questions, they want to talk to "the midwives' nurse" (or whatever provider you work for). Just a little side note for ya!
Well, I suppose I've rambled enough for now. On to the pictures!!
A few of the ornaments. Wooden blocks with different names of Christ. I just hand wrote them, but am planning on jazzing them up next year with a Cricut or something.
Our stockings my amazing Mama made for all of us!
It's a large wall. I tried to fill it :/
Mistletoes :) Lucas and Via's footprints in green clay.
And this is where they hang :) You can kind of see my little ornament/cupcake stand tree on the table. Thank you, Pinterest, once again!
Oh, that's just Via sitting on the wrapping paper box trying to decide what to read next. She wouldn't let go of that blanket the other night!
The lights I made for Via's birthday that I finally got hung up yesterday... and decorated with pink and purple ornaments today! I bought the ornaments last year to take her baby pictures with but never got around to it :(
Hung some lights in our room as well tonight :) Not the best pic... I was playing around with ISO and time, but this was all I had patience for ;) And Lucas wanted to lay down by Daddy after he came home, so he made him.
And my {NO_L}. I promise, the E is around here somewhere...
Merry Christmas, everyone!! Hopefully I will get around to blogging before Christmas actually comes, but if not, that will have to do ;)
Look at all those cute things! Where do you find time to make all those? Gah I love them all! Looks so festive!
ReplyDeleteThank you!! Honestly, I have no idea where I find time haha! Hence the ornaments, and the JOY signs, taking me since before Thanksgiving! The "NO L" I did in high school at a YW activity :) Weekend projects, I guess ;)
ReplyDeleteSuper cute decor!
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