Weekend wrap up

Well, I just realized I wrote a post about my weekend and forgot to post it. So here you go, my weekend wrap up.....

My weekend started off great with a wonderful dinner at Blue Moose in Pigeon Forge. We had a family celebration for my birthday and my children's birthday. I got some wonderful gifts. This warm nightgown and fleece shirt. They were both super soft. 

My granddaughter Alexis made me this hand ring holder. of course, she painted it red because she knows that is my favorite color. She did an amazing job. I told her she could paint my nails like.  

Hanging on the hand was my new JK by Thirty-One floating heart necklace I got. 

I also got these adorable ornaments. Each one has the name of one of the family. I love them. 

My granddaughter Shelby drew me this picture. She said it was Papaw Al looking down over Kodak (where we live). 

I took three of the grandchildren home with me for the whole weekend. I did some shopping Saturday with Colby while Alexis went to a friends birthday celebration and the oldest one, Garret, hung out at the house. On Sunday, I brought the other two grandchildren home with us after church to celebrate my birthday. I am not sure how, but I was able to talk them into a selfie with me. Very natural relaxed photo. Even if Alexis did give me bunny ears without me realizing it. Cracked me up when I saw that.

Sunday evening I went out to eat with my sister-in-law Tammi, and niece Sarah. Then we went to church for old fashioned Christmas carol singing around the piano. 

It was an awesome birthday. I have been so busy I forgot post on Sunday or Monday. But I am really blessed to have had such an awesome weekend. 

A couple of laughs today...

A little something to make you smile....



I have to post this one every year. It just cracks me up.



I had a great evening yesterday and off to enjoy an awesome day today. I'll give you update on my Weekend Wrap Up on Monday. Have a great weekend.

Friday Foto Friends

Joining Jeremiah-2911.com for Friday Foto Friends.

I finally decorated the tree last night. One of the first ornaments to go on are the Shiny Brights that belonged to Allen's grandmother. I love these old ornaments.

Here is the finished product. It is funny that even though it has a ton of red and green lights and they are very noticeable, but every photo the blue and purple ones are the ones that photograph the best.

And here it is with the lights dimmed and the fireplace is on. 

Have a fantastic Friday.

Happy birthday to my children....

The best day of my life...ever was the day I gave birthday to my beautiful twins. An unexpected blessing from above since I didn't find out we had two babies until I was in the delivery room. I would not trade that experience for anything in the word. They are so much alike in so many ways and totally different in others. Even their looks are not the same.

One light hair and one dark hair. Both absolutely the most beautiful babies ever.

Both with quirky little personality traits that made watching them grow up a life full of lots of fun and laughter. 

There is still lots of fun and laughter every time we get together.

They continued the great joy they give me when they provided me with a wonderful daughter-in-law and son-in-law. But my proudest moments have been when they have provided me with 5 grandchildren to love. 

So happy birthday to my first born, my daughter, Diana.

And to my youngest, my son Chris (who will always be my baby no matter how old he gets.)

Happy birthday to two of the absolute best children a mother could ever ask for. I hope you both have a very blessed day.

Wordless Wednesday

Just some pretty pics to get us in the Christmas spirit....

Top 10 Tuesday - Beach Decorating Ideas

My master bath is decorated in a beach theme. Awhile back I purchased a new bedspread and pillow shams to match that color scheme. I am not changing them until after the holidays. But I decided that I am going to incorporate the beach theme in my master bedroom as well. The colors are blues, tans, whites and yellows. So I did what I do best....I went to Pinterest and started pinning ideas. Here are my top 10 that I really like.

#1. A sign like this. I don't think I could find the wood to do it like this, but you could also buy some premade wood plaque, paint it and stencil it.

#2. Super simple pillows that you could stencil on.

#3. I love the thought of doing a mirror or even a picture frame with a beach theme. But I would paint it more blue than turquoise. 

#4. A few cute frames, some burlap and some of my favorite big seashells. I could do this one myself very easy. 

#5. I need to find me an old trunk and do it up with beach colors for the foot of my bed. I have a wicker trunk right now sitting there. But the lid is coming lose and it is dark wicker.

#6. I would love to do this over the doorway into the my master bathroom. It would be so easy once I found the right doors. 

#7. I am on the search for some Nantucket baskets. This will be one of those gotta get it 2nd hand because new ones don't come cheap. 

#8. And oh my gosh! Do you love this or what. Paint stirrers and some pretty beachy paint with some little star fish. A must do on my list. 

#9. Now to find someone who will do me an afghan in white, blue's and greens the colors of the ocean. I am in love with this. What is a good price to pay for someone to make something like this? I can't crochet so I will buy the yarn and farm out the labor. But this has the exact colors in my new quilt.

#10. And finally, I want to find a cute frame for the wall. I have a picture of me and Allen at Panama City that I want to blow up and frame like this. But I am going to paint mine blue. 

Looks like I have some craft projects to keep me busy in the cold month of January.

Catch up time...

Last week, I had so much going on I think I just dropped into bed every night when I got home. Monday evening, I went to the store and ran some errands after work so it wasn't bad.

Tuesday, I pulled all my Christmas boxes out of the storage area so I could start doing some of my decorating. About all I got done was moving things out of the living room so I would have a place to put the things I wanted to decorate with. Then I stopped for the night. 

Wednesday was play practice for the Children's program. 

Thursday I had to decorate the set for the program. One section of the stage was a tree lot. This is just the beginning of it, but the tall tree was a fake tree from our storage at church. Check out the 3 little trees in the front. Those are tomato cages with garland wrapped around them. Thank you Pinterest for the idea. I think they turned out just fine. 

Friday was the last rehearsal and I had to go back to watch it to see if I needed any more props or to move anything and make changes. 

Saturday, I just about wore myself out. My day by me getting up and making 4 dozen cookies. Don't worry, I did the break apart and bake kind. Then at 9:00, I left to go to a movie theater in Knoxville where I attended the Spring Premier for Thirty-One. 

Immediately after that, we met up at a local restaurant and had our Thirty-One local group Christmas party and gift exchange. 

I hurried home when that was over so I could make the other 2 dozen cookies. We were supposed to take 5-6 dozen. I got those done, wrapped another gift and then headed out at 6:30 to a cookie exchange/gift exchange gathering with some of the women from my church. I didn't get home until almost 10:30. 

Sunday, I got up and prepared the craft for Children's church and printed off the lesson. Then headed out to Sunday School and church. 

I came home from church, had lunch and started to set out a few of my Christmas decorations and threw in a load of laundry. Then I had to leave so I could be back at the church for choir practice for the adult Christmas program which is next Sunday. After it was over, we had to move the choir chairs back out of the way and I had to finish putting the decor up for the children's program. Since I was already there, I just hung out till the Children's program started. 

I got home a little before 8:00 and I didn't do a single thing but eat a bite of supper and lay on the couch till time to go to bed. I am so thankful that I don't have any commitments this week and that the family will be coming over here Friday night to celebrate our December birthdays. Now to get my decorating done tonight so I can enjoy the week.