I Just Love Life!!!

2 days left and missing a few advent posts

Still shocked that my husby has only had smores in the last few years, with me. So 2 days left and we made red neck smores.




YUM!

Seven days til Christmas...Your true love gave to you!

Food Poisoning!! Yep, you heard it correctly...not sure if it was my cooking since I am not puking...yet!

Update: It was not my cooking...we have narrowed it down to the new Eggo fruit pizzas...Just FYI

12...11

Today's advent is censored for the little children...for the rest of you it is the cutest pin up calendar ever. A little risque though....

17-13 days til Christmas...

Whoa...I am a slacker, but not with the advent just with the blogging! So we have been doing a bunch of stuff for Zack and Bebop wanted to get involved so this is what we did.
Bebop LOVES Santa and he filled Bebop's head with all the new presents he is going to get! Good thing I had already planned on spoiling the S#@T out of him...like usual.

19....

Although we have a problem with collecting WAY too many things...and the advent today is adding to that list. There is a positive...there are only 4 more to complete this collection!

21 and 20...simple things

Sometimes the advent is nothing more than love, life, and trying to make this little place better. The doors on our little village hide Zack's little gifts for our countdown...he is really into the BELL (hint...hint...)on top of the church.


The antique ornaments we purchased last year make the holiday brighter! They make me think about simpler times.

23 and 22

Day late...but here is the make up:

With 23 days left I have to address Zack's addiction to comic books...with this literally being his only vice, how can I say no? This pic is of a new comic that I think is going to be amazing...and even if it is not the hero has MS, so either way I am a fan.

22 days til x-mas and I knew that I had to get Zack a card to his favorite place in this world....CHIPOTLE! If you haven't tried it then you are missing out however, I don't know if anyone could be as obsessed as Zack.
Until tomorrow...

Oh what a wonderful time of year?

I am in a bit of a confusing state of mind, with a new sewing machine that I can't put away it has made me overly excited for the holidays! But I have picked up some shifts at Barnes and Noble (since I am still only teaching part time, but things are definitely working out and on the up and up). This, I'll just say, distracts from the spirit, whatever spirit there might be.
However, this post is not all ranting. We had a fabulous Thanksgiving at home. I cooked an entire feast...which I will post pics of because I know some people are going to want evidence. I finished my first jacket for myself, which is totally motivating me to start an etsy and/or consigning my clothes....here comes ATOMIC CHARTREUSE...sometime in the future!
Last night Ashlee and I went to see the Rockette's Christmas Spectacular!! It was fun...a little disappointing as I walked outside to West Valley and not the streets of New York...maybe next year.
And lastly but not least...tomorrow begins the countdown to Christmas. I love doing an advent calendar for my husby and this year Bebop may get in on the action. I thought I would post about the fun this year.

To the light of my life...a light to light the words when your wife just wants to sleep (this is not a dirty reference to anything...the gift is a book light).

Wide open Wyoming!!

This is my parents Wyoming abode....not a great pic but thought I would share. We just got back from spending the week, and don't worry there are many more pictures to come as well as funny stories!

Death to my mantra...

Along with my reconstruction I have found that I am loving this little space we have and it is genuinely plenty. So when I saw this vinyl lettering in the store I thought, "I am doing just that and I am wanting for nothing." Thus the new mantra. Well, as I was putting it on the wall my husby comes bebopping into the kitchen and says, "Oh, live simply...what exactly is live simply?" With the pronunciation of live as in, 'the show you are watching is taped LIVE' He was joking and thus I got over the little comment. However, this story doesn't end here, a few days later my dad was here and he is all, "Live simply, I don't get it?" and if any of you knew my pops you would know that this was not the end of his banter about my new signage. Nope, it went on all day and he will probably mention it each time he visits.
So I had two options here. One: be psted about the situation, especially since my dad has an uncanny ability to get under my skin or, Two: Laugh about it?
Well, I chose to laugh...and yesterday as my mom and I were fixing things we kept laughing about our ability to LIVE simply!

So whenever you think of this grab yourself a PBR, cut off shorts, and cheers to LIVING simply!