Goal for 2010!

1. Complete my bedroom re-do (including painting and decorating)
2. Paint the vanity in the kids bath and complete it.
3. Have an organized, but still cute laundry room.
4. Hang stuff on Jackson's walls.
5. Complete the curb appeal to our house.
6. Read more of my Bible that I do now.
7. Spend more time on the floor playing with the kids than I do worrying about
the mess they are making.
8. Aim to workout more than just at the start of the new year.
9. Start school in August
10. Go somewhere I have never been before.
11. Scrapbook!
12. Potty train Emma
13. Make Julia Child's Beef Bourguignon
14. Write someone a letter. (done 1.22.10)
15. Get my tattoo!

Welcome to my house....

I love Christmas, and most of all I love to decorate for Christmas!!! using items that I had around the house I was able to spruce up my entry way a bit for the holidays.

come on Christmas...

I am so ready for Christmas I can't stand it. I have all my shopping done minus my mom but that will be easy. I have a whole list of items that I want to bake for our party on the 19th


1. homemade mint patties
2. monster cookies
3. covered pretzels
4. sugar cookies

What is Christmas without a ton of sugary treats?

Julie & Julia

This past weekend, my sweet husband let me pick a chick flick to watch what a sweetie! With no kids for the weekend and the Christmas shopping done and before the last min. I may add we sat down to enjoy a wonderful movie. Julie & Julia I loved it. If you can watch that movie and not get inspired to cook that you have to be the worst cook ever. I would love to have the french cookbook by Julia Child, if anything to make Beef Bourguignon, JD says why, it looks like beef stew to me......what does he know.

I love how a movie can inspire you to do something. Like when you watch Save the last dance, you want to become a dancer, or The wedding planner you want to become a world famous wedding planner and then there is Julie and Julia, I wanted to just get up and cook. I did make covered pretzels (I'm sure Julia Child never made them, to easy) and I made from scratch Homemade mint patties, my Grandma Hamilton's famous secret recipe.

I know I will never become a world famous wedding planner or Chef, but it is nice to dream about it.

Merry Christmas to all...

Last night I decided that we needed to take the kids pictures for christmas cards because I was not sure when i would get around to it, and I like to have my cards mailed out soon.

Jackson and Emma are getting so big, I know I say that all the time, but they really are! Emma does everything that her brother does and its so funny if Emma does anything bad Jackson is the first to tell her that santa is watching her! This whole santa thing is AWESOME! we have been able to use that against Jackson so many times in the past month when he throws a fit, and he changes his attitude real fast.

Master Bedroom re-do

I have wanted to change the look of our bedroom since we bought our house in Oct of 2006 but was unable to decide what I actually want. After much searching and thanks to Beth for having great google skills we were able to find a picture of the idea that I have had in my head this whole time. So below is my inspiration for my new master bedroom I hope within the year I will be able to complete the most important task to making it happen.....painting.

my babies.......

Wow, looking at pictures I see how much my babies have changed in the past year. Emma will be turning 2 in Jan. I can not believe that 2 years ago I was pregnant with her and would be having her 6 weeks early. She was so tiny at just 5lbs 9oz she is now a 28lb ball of sassy-ness!!!










And then Jackson, that boy is so smart he picks up on thing so fast. I think he knows more songs than I do, and just an overall great brother to Emma. I really dont know what I will do when he starts Kindergarden............