December Daily--Day 8

Just one of those days where everything seems like it has been turned upside down.

Day 7---Pictureless Post

Last night began one of many holiday parties over the next couple weeks. Katie Lee and I went to an ornament swap with my aunts and cousins at Kathryn's house. My camera battery was dead so I did not get any pictures. Her home looks so pretty with all of Christmas Decorations. Check out her blog (Bonafide Southern) later on in the month to see all of her pretties. Everyone brought a finger food, and it was all delicious. Then it was on to the swap. This is always fun. We had so many pretty ones to pick from that it did not matter what you had it was gorgeous.

Katie Lee, of course, had lots of fun. She spent a good while up stairs with Uncle Wez playing tea party. She even wanted her and Wez's food put on the pretty tea party plates she said. She did come back down stairs in time for the swap. She was the little elf that passed out all of the gifts. She wanted to hang all of the ornaments on the tree.

I ended up with a really pretty bell ornament.
It was a great night and I am glad that Kathryn hosted the party.

December Daily--Day 6---Tour of Homes

Last night Donnie and I joined Will and Amber for a tour of homes and a progressive dinner in Historic Moorseville, AL. If you have never been to this little town, add it to your places to visit. What a fun night. We were able to see inside several of those beautiful homes and boy were they pretty. I always drive by old historic homes and wish I could see the inside so it was a treat for me to get a tour. We started our dinner with appetizers in the Stagecoach Inn and Tavern. We toured a few more homes and then to salads at the Brick Church. After that, several more homes and then time for dinner at Limestone Bay. It was a really good dinner. Donnie wanted a second plate. Then a few more homes and last but definitely not least dessert. The dessert was in the Barn. This was the fanciest barn I've ever seen.

I really wanted to take pictures inside some of these homes so I could remember the ideas, but I didn't think that would be the proper thing to do. Hopefully between the two of us, we can remember.






I would also like to thank our husbands for being such a good sport about this especially since Alabama was playing last night. I would also like to thank all of the homeowners for having this game on in their den's so the men could watch while we toured.

December Daily--Day 5

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Boy was I surprised to wake up this morning and see snow outside. Donnie had left out about 4:30 this morning to go hunting and I did not really think that it was going to snow especially since Donnie was gone and did not say anything about it before he left.

Katie Lee was so excited about the snow!

She quickly got her boots on......

but forgot about clothes.

After a quick layer up of clothes, it was outside for some fun.

The Littlest Snowman!!

December Daily--Day 4

Friday night we were at Mother and Daddy's house. Here is Katie Lee ready for bed. I thought she looked too cute infront of the Christmas tree.

Holiday Cloche Party

Today I am joining A Stroll Thru Life for a Holiday Cloche Party.

I have these in my kitchen. Normally they are filled with fruit, but since it is Christmas I thought that I would add something sweet. I thought they were a cute touch with my other decorations including the darling Merry Christmas blocks, and the hand painted Cookies for Santa plate that I had done last year with Katie Lee's hand print . I don't have a fire place, so I hung our stockings on this old chest of drawers. I painted it right after Donnie and I married. It was his mother's, and I just love the look of it.

I saw red hots with peppermint on top in a magazine just lately which gave me this idea.
I used Mike and Ike's for this jar because I loved the colors and I had them left over from a Thanksgiving project that I did with my class at school.
Finally, I have a jar of Old Fashioned Hard Candy. I do not like these candies, but I buy some every year. Growing up my Papa McNatt always had a candy dish of these sitting in his living room at Christmas time, so I always buy some just to think of him.

December Daily Day 3

Wearing a tree and sitting by the tree. Katie Lee was more excited that she was getting to sit on the arm of the sofa.

Give Away

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She is having a great Give Away of a pretty apron.

December Daily--Day2---Favorite Ornaments

I love Christmas ornaments and have been collecting them for as long as I can remember. This year I had to be very selected because I went from a tree in every room to one much smaller tree in our living room. There is just no room for my big tree this year. Anyway, here is a couple of my special ones. Every ornament of ours tells a story. I try to always get one when we go on vacation or do something special to remind us of the place and the events. I will share more on another day.

My daddy gave me and my sister this ornament several years before either of us got married. He told us that we had to put a picture of our first born on his/her first Christmas in this frame to hang on the tree each year.

Katie Lee gave this one to Donnie last year for Christmas. They have danced just about every night since she was old enough to keep her head up good.

Several years ago, a few of the girls from school took a mini-vacation at the end of school together.

December Daily

I am joining Lori (over at Itty Bitty) for December Daily. I plan to post every day this month, and with all of the events going on I am sure to have plenty to post about. Today's post is bedtime. Besides jumping on the bed, Katie Lee has started really liking to read Goodnight Moon before bedtime. The three of us all pile up in the "big bed' after the jumping stops and reads the book. Katie Lee can just about "read" it all by herself. This helps wind her down and then we put her in her bed for night night prayers.