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
