radomness

The only negative to keeping busy with KandidsbyKorri this time of year is I don't feel like picking my camera up when I'm at home. There have been so many things I've wanted to take pictures of and blog about so tonight was the night, so here we go. This is all very random by the way.

This is a our advent Jesse tree, it's silver and very pretty. I'll expand on it more in another post so this is just a teaser.

 Our first ornament we hung today about the root of Jesse.

 Our big tree is decorated and this is my favorite ornament.

 And these wrapped goodies are part of a tradition we started last year. We have collected an assortment of Christmas books over the years and so we wrap them up, 24 of them and starting on December 1st we open one book per night and read it by our Christmas tree. And on night 24, Christmas eve, we open up a new book. The kids love it and so do mom and dad.

 I told you this would be random. Michael and I climbed into bed the other night and saw this sign that Anna had made. It was a great reminder of where we live.

 You can see the sign in this picture but you can also see that the kids built a fort. Why, oh why do they always choose our room? I have no idea. Maybe it's their sneaky way of forgetting about the clean up part and mom and dad are forced to do the clean up when we go to bed at night.

 This is by far one of my favorite Christmas decorations. I grew up with this in my home and my mom gave it to me a while back. It plays music when you wind it up, it brings me great memories of Christmases growing up. We've never been big on Santa but there is just something very sweet about this Mr. and Mrs. Clause.

 Michael did a great job putting lights on the house, I love the big ones in the car port.

 I have found a new friend, Dunkin Decaf is delicious especially with vanilla creamer. I have had a cup every morning since Thanksgiving, my coffee pot only makes an appearance on Thanksgiving and Christmas but maybe it will become a more permanent fixture in the kitchen. It puts a smile on my face when I wake up, it really doesn't take much to please me.

 What is there to say, I love chocolate especially the peppermint kind.

This cracks me up. This is Anna's blanket. She has three stuffed animals that she calls her BFF's and usually they are not bundled up in her blanket. When I went to say goodnight to her a few nights ago she told me her BFF's were hybernating. They have been like this every since. Anna still sleeps with them, just in this form.

 And last, this reminds me of my grandma Dehn. The smell brings back a flood of memories from her kitchen where we spent a lot of time when growing up. The smell actually makes me want to wash my dishes by hand. I LOVE it!