Thursday, December 15, 2011

Christmas in our Bungalow - The Village

The Mr.'s parents have been giving him pieces of the Department 56 - The Original Snow Village for years now.  He has quite the collection.  This is the first year in the bungalow we have display all of the pieces on the guestroom built in's.








a pretty arrangement my Mama did 

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Christmas in our Bungalow – Phase 1

So I’m going to break this up a bit so I don’t overwhelm you all photos (my mom doesn't like too many pics in one post).

Phase 1 – basic pics brought to you by my mama’s friend
Phase 2 – the village, the Mr.’s favorite
Phase 3 – the tree, a few close ups and the deats






above - guestroom with village

our room above and below 

above: the laundry room/butlers pantry (my mom's favorite)
below: the kitchen, across from me is the tree, pics of it to come later

I know the anticipating is just killing you all but I promise for real to have everything in the blogosphere by the end of the week.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Tuesday Randoms

The tour was a success thanks to my mama and her friend who spend a ton of time decorating last week.   I can’t take all of the credit.  I was off work yesterday and the Mr. and I finished up the Christmas shopping.  Then had a little dinner + movie date.  We finally saw Moneyball.  Great movie a bit slow but I would definitely recommend.



Due to our fun day off I still haven’t uploaded the pics of the house.  I promise I will share tomorrow.  In the meantime I have our Christmas card out takes to share.  Cards went out yesterday so you will have to wait and see which one we picked for the final cut.




Thursday, December 8, 2011

Oh Happy Day

Tuesday was a great day. (I’m a little behind this week) One of our best in quite some time!

First of all I went down to the capital of Atlanta to court for my car accident in October. This was only my second ticket ever and my first time in a court room. It was a lot like the tv shows. I originally pleaded guilty and after watching several people walk up and say no contest they were dismissed. So little old me walk up stated my name and said ‘excuse me sir, I would like to change my plea’ and the judge gave a small chuckle and said ‘you are catching on, good job’ then asked if any witnesses were in the court room. No one responded and I was dismissed…free to go! Very exciting news as I was prepared to pay some sort of fine. The Mr. was very supportive. He woke up early to go with me and then couldn’t go in the courtroom and had to wait in the hallway for 2.5 hours. He’s the best! I took the day off work due to court but then we were outta there by 10:15.

We ventured over to the Pottery Barn in search of our new sofa. We found it!!! It was the first couch we sat on! And it was on sale! So excited to finally have a new sofa, even if we won’t get it until after Christmas. Now we just need to find a coffee table and 2 more chairs and we will be set, Merry Christmas to us!

Then we had a great little lunch date.

Headed home for a change of clothes and headed to the tree farm. After a long while of searching we found 2 great trees. One inside tree and one back porch tree, we finished decorating last night.

The Mr. made a delicious beef stew and then we were off to the Atlanta Botanical Garden for the Holiday lights. So pretty definitely going to be a new holiday outing for us if you are in the area you should definitely check it out!

It’s been a very busy/productive week and I can’t wait to share pictures tomorrow!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Christmas Inspiration

Brought to you via pinterest.
Yes, I've almost completed my house and No it does not look as good as any of these pics.
Pictures to come later this week once we cut down and decorate the tree.




Friday, December 2, 2011

Calling all Elfs


If only I had a little crew of elf’s to help me out this weekend. I have a full weekend of Christmas ahead of me! I need to finish decorating and cleaning the bungalow in preparation for Christmas tour a week from tomorrow. Then I’m volunteering for another Christmas tour. Wrapping and mailing the family gifts. It’s real, I’m official tangled up in the bustle of the holidays. Hopefully with an organized game plan for the next 48 hours and it will all get completed?!

Happy Weekend!

PS:  does the plural version of Elf's have a 'v'??

Thursday, December 1, 2011

It’s the most wonderful time of the year

December has arrived. It’s hard to believe that the final month of 2011 has come around. 
I love the holidays…

I love giving gifts

buying gifts
advent calendars
the smell of Christmas trees
twinkling lights
hot chocolate 

making gingerbread men
red ribbon
Christmas villages
The pink pig

Living Bethlehem walk
Christmas wishes

...wow I could really go on for days. I can’t help but imagine how wonderful this month will be will we have kids!

Happy December and a Very Merry Christmas to All!