'Twas the Night Before Christmas

And all through the house....

We were hacking and coughing and blowing our

noses out!!!

We have a house full of sickies!

The boys came down with the flu last Friday...

I have an upper respiratory and they said Scott

has a virus...

We have had to postpone Christmas with Scott's 

Mom and Dad and all of his family until we are all better

and we have called off my brother and all of his family...

So we will be spending Christmas day at home...

which will be kind of nice.

The kids will have all day to lay around and play with

their loot that Santa will bring!

The boys have already opened their traditional

Christmas Eve Present...

Austin has been waiting patiently all day long...

NOT!

But was excited to see he got a new 

Duck Dynasty T-shirt...

Are you a Duck Dynasty fan?

Austin LOVES that show and quotes 

Uncle Si on many occasions.

Jackson is so meticulous about opening 

his presents...

He takes his sweet time...

and examines every little detail...

We also tried to do a little fun activity.

You would think a little ginger bread house would not 

too difficult...

We got everything out and were ready to go...

Jackson was really getting in to the decorating...

and eating a little along the way...

And then disaster struck!

The entire thing fell apart...and would not stick back together!

Jackson has enjoyed licking the icing off of the house and eating all of

the candy.  He does not seem to care that it fell apart.

I guess it is too humid for the walls to set...

We could have run the air conditioner today.

And tomorrow, instead of a white Christmas...

we are hoping we don't have a whirling Christmas.

There is a possibility we could see a Tornado Watch

at some point tomorrow and they are saying south of us may

actually see Tornado Warnings...

Yikes!

Hope everyone has a Very, Merry Christmas!

Holiday Ho Ho Ho....

Well...did you think we fell off the face of the earth?

Not exactly....but we fell like we have been around the world...

But we are BACK!

And hopefully we will get to 

deck the halls and enjoy a little

fa-la-la...

I set the kitchen breakfast table 

today, not exactly for a meal...

but to keep up from piling stuff on it!

We have been in dump and run mode around here 

and have got to get control of it before

we are all wrapped up in paper and bows!

Come on in and take a look...

I found the cute Santa chair covers at

the Dollar Tree...

I had looked high and low for them last year

and came up empty handed,

so last night when I saw them,

I scooped the up on the spot!

The place mats are from Old Time Pottery...

The Sleigh cupcake holders are from Crate and Barrel

that I found a couple of years ago...

I didn't have any cupcakes today so I

used some red and green Skittles...

I sat them on some lime green salad plates 

that I found at Big Lots.

The glasses are from Kohl's this year...

They were in the St. Nicholas Square line...

I grabbed the last four that my local store had...

I thought they looked like swirling snow.

Cambridge pearl handled flatware...

My happy little Santa napkin rings that I was 

gifted last Christmas are making their debut

of the season...

My mother kept walking by the table and

saying 'black napkins'...

I thought they would bring out the black in the plaid...

she didn't really approve.

The table is set, now we just need to slow

down a little and enjoy some

family time.

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