This morning as I was getting the kids dressed, they both managed to make their opinions known. Corinne has been doing this for a long time, but Andrew surprises us every once in awhile when it comes to his clothes.
I was handing him his shirt to put on, and he said, "No! Not that shirt! I wanna wear a cool shirt. That shirt isn't cool."
Well, excuse me.
Then after Corinne had picked out what she wanted to wear and I had gotten her dressed, she ran out of the room yelling, "Andrew, look at me! I look pretty!"
Yes, sweetheart, you look very, very pretty.
*I sincerely apologize for the glaring white walls - the woes of renting!
Here's another wreath I made recently from a different online tutorial. I have it hanging right inside my front door above my great-grandmother's Singer sewing machine.
The wreath is made by hotglueing (sp?) pages from a book to a ten inch wreath form. It was a little time consuming, but nothing I couldn't do while watching a little tv.
I decided to make this wreath my own by using pages from a hynmal instead of any old paperback. I bought the wreath form from the dollar store and the hynmal from Half Price Books.
I also used the wreath as my centerpiece for my table at our Women's Christmas Luncheon.
This year we actually put our tree up the weekend after Thanksgiving, and the kids loved it! They put almost all of the ornaments on the tree by themselves.
You can see where most of the ornaments ended up:
Also, a long time ago, Clark's mom gave us two stockings for Bubba and Hoss, our sweet dogs. Bubba and Hoss are both gone now, so this year I hung those stockings on the tree.
Of course, later on I redistributed the ornaments, but Corinne and Andrew weren't done with their decorating!
But last week I got to meet The Pioneer Woman!!! If you don't know who she is, you have to go check out her website. After you're done reading this post, of course.
Ree Drummond started her blog a few years ago, and has become a blogging celebrity. Her website has five different blogs ranging from her life on a cattle ranch to cooking to photography. Recently, she wrote a cookbook that is now a New York Times Bestseller.
So last Tuesday, she was coming to Dallas to sign her cookbooks, and a couple of friends and I wanted to go meet her because we love her recipes. It was an adventurous day because we had to be at the bookstore when it opened that morning to get a colored wristband to reserve a spot in line for that night. Confused yet? In retrospect, I am so glad we did this because, although we were in the first color group, we still had to wait an hour and a half to meet her. She ended up signing books until 2:30am!
Once we had a wristbands, we didn't have to show up until that night before it started. What a relief!
Finally, the Pioneer Woman herself came out, said a few words, and then got down to business signing all those cookbooks.
I am so glad I had friends there with me to talk to and eat with after we were done. It was such a fun night!
Erin, Carrie, Pamela, and me
waiting in line
The Borders employee who took our picture managed to completely leave Pamela out, but otherwise I think its a good picture. And, we spent all of ten seconds talking to her, but they were so worth it to have my cookbook autographed. :)
Believe it or not, I've never had a Christmas wreath to hang on my front door.
This year I saw a very easy tutorial online for a wreath made out of ornaments. Using a wire hanger we already had and a few tubes of dollar store ornaments, voila! My own wreath that the kids helped me make. It's not perfect, but it adds some festivity to our front door.
Click here to find the tutorial.
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