It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

The weather is cold

The street is lighted with christmas decorations

Craziness is happening at shopping stores

Presents are being exchanged

The smell of pine is in the air...

Yep, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Only thing missing for me is my snow... unfortunately it looks like we probably won't be getting any this year. I might have to move further north for next year ha ha ha.

This weekend and last was filled with lots of Christmasey-fun.

Last Saturday we had an all day adventure driving up to the mountains, visiting little shops, and getting our Christmas trees.

The trees are soooo cheap up there, and the farms are EVERYWHERE!!!!!

We saw SNOW!!!!! We stopped at an overlook and Tj and I had a little snowball fight... I forgot how cold snow was LOL

And we ended our day with a visit to Tanglewood Park's Festival of Lights... which was absolutely amazing!!! It's like a drive-through light show with some of the coolest stuff. It must take them forever to set it all up!

This Weekend, we got Brooklyn all dressed up to go see Santa at the mall.

On the way to Santa, we had a nice little surprise... Hello Kitty was at the mall too!! Brooklyn was SOOO excited.

We stopped at the play area where she took a picture with the doctor lady

Waited at least an hour for Santa

And finally, we met him!!!

I finished decorating the house inside and out...

Our tree doesn't have a topper this year because my genius hubby cut the top part off thinking we didn't need it.... hellooooo?????

My favorite find of the season... I got this hanging bell for $1 at Dollar Tree, I saw something similar for $6 at another store... but the bell was smaller. I think it is so cute!!!

Got some presents wrapped for the mother in law and step father in law back in Orlando.... one of these days we will get them sent out, ha ha ha. Notice the little fingers pointing out her Grandma's gifts...

Some people tell me every year they like how I wrap presents and use ribbon, And I just want to say that it is really not difficult to make presents look great for really cheap!! The wrapping paper was all Buy 1 Get 2 Free from Walgreens, (that sale is over) and the ribbon was cheap from Dollar Tree. The press on bow in the present on the left came from a bag of 50 for $2 at Walmart. Mixing different colors and shiny/matte ribbon plus lots and lots of curling can make any gift look extra special. It's my favorite thing to do at Christmas time <3

And finally, a pose from the princess herself... in her so-last-season pj's... LOL

And just like that, what was supposed to be a short post turned into a long one with all my pictures... But I have been crazy busy lately and wasn't able to update since before last weekend. I left my old job, and got hired at a new job... which is already trying to work me to death, scheduling me 9 days in a row my first week. And so it begins!!!!

Hello Kitty love and lots of pretty Christmas wrapping,

Kayla

Just Some Pictures.

Just decided to upload some of the pictures that I've been taking lately. I love pictures of the sky, there are so many shades throughout the day and I think it makes for such pretty pictures.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas :)

Kayla

Our Thanksgiving

I know I'm a little late, but I needed a few days to recoup from the craziness of Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Christmas decorating. We had a wonderful thanksgiving, I spent all day in the kitchen with my mom, followed by an awesome meal... Boy did I miss her food. I slept for about two hours right after dinner before I got up in the worst mood of my life and started my shopping. I did Toys R Us online, Walmart in the store (which was pure craziness) and then Target in the store as well. Target handled everything perfectly... I am extremely happy with how it turned out and I plan on shopping there more often.

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving :)

My Centerpiece... I only paid $7 for, and I can reuse everything so I don't have to buy it again. Dollar Tree can be my best friend at times, I plan on using the same thing for Christmas but putting old ornaments and some candy canes on the plate in place of the fall leaves.

Cinnamon Rolls for breakfast

Along with muffins

My mom's amazing stuffing

Chips w/ dip

Peanut butter fudge

Sweet potatoes

Mashed Potatoes

Creamy deviled eggs

Bacon-cheddar pinwheels (before they were baked)

The turkey... we used one of those roasting bags that you put it in,

OMG it was the juciest turkey that I have EVER had.

All of our sides

And finally, our turkey and ham...

Everything was just sooooo good. We were eating leftovers for days and there are still more but we got sick of it. Over the weekend, my mom cut up the rest of the turkey and some celery and mixed with mayo to make turkey salad. we ate it on sub rolls with lettuce and tomato.... it was really really good!!!!

In other news, I am almost completely done with my Christmas shopping. All that is left is to get a few more gifts, wrap, and send out what needs to be sent out. I finished decorating outside our apartment, and I adore the way it came out... we have icicle lights, multicolor lights around the window and in the front bush, both blinking... lighted candy canes in front of the walk way, a big blow up penguin on the porch, and our door is decorated with a 4' red lighted bow, and lighted garland draped on the frame... SO pretty!!! On saturday we are heading up to the mountains, Jefferson, NC to be exact... to cut down our own Christmas tree. Then, on Sunday, it's Disney's Dare to Dream Princesses on Ice show at the Greensboro Coliseum. Brooklyn doesn't know that we are going, she is going to be soooo excited. Stay tuned for lots more pictures after the weekend.

Wishing for lots of snow and the sound of jingle bells,

Kayla