Christmas Printable

I was reading Kelly's blog this morning and saw that she had found some really cute Christmas printables.  I found one I thought would be great on our bookshelf by our fireplace....it's so easy to just print on your home printer and put in a frame.  I used the same frame I had for the Thanksgiving printable last month, and I just kept that one behind the new one so each year I can rotate them out depending on the season.  I love how easily and cheaply it changes the look of our shelf!

Here's the one I liked and printed....



You can print one for yourself here...

http://adventuresofabettycrockerwannabe.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-scripture-word-tree-printable.html

Just click on the picture, save it/download it, and print it.  So fun :-)

Thankful

Tonight I was just thinking about a lot of things, some silly and some serious, that I'm really thankful for.

*  A husband that lets me take a 1/2 hour to enjoy a nice bubble bath in the evening.  Soo relaxing and helpful for an aching pregnant mama back!

*  savings that can cover the cost of new tires for our van after 1 had a leak

*  our new laptop.  It is soooo wonderful.  We have never bought a new laptop, we've always bought a college hand me down off of craigslist and I think we even bought one off of ebay once.  So I am just really enjoying this new one....who knew you could be on a laptop without it randomly shutting off every 1/2 hour?!?!  :-)

*  my new set of dishes.  We had ones we really liked the looks of from World Market but they chipped terribly and got so hot in the microwave after only a minute.  They were pretty unusuable.  So my Christmas gift from Peter's folks is some new ones.  We went with something durable since we'll have young kiddos using them, but ones that were still pretty looking.  I found a set Peter and I both liked but they were expensive....however, ShopKo had them on clearance!  It was the only kind on clearance and they had the exact amount I needed.  AWESOME.  Have to love clearance finds like that!

*  my adorable little boy who says the funniest things lately.  When we call for him, or find him somewhere he says "I find me!"  When he hears music lately he's been saying "I hear something.  What is that?  I don't know that song."  When he sees something that peeks his interest he gasps and says "oh looook at thaaaat!"  We could eat him up.  Though we both agree that he is growing up way too fast and it's super sad.  We truly want to freeze time.

*  Little Einstein DVD's and the amazing Aunt who gave them to Benjamin.  40 minutes of distraction time = priceless!

* Christmas music - it just makes me happy.  I love having the Christmas tree lights on, a yummy smelling candle lit, the fireplace going, and festive Christmas music in the background.....perfect night.

*  a baby boy who moves all.the.time inside me.  It scares me how similar his activity level was to Benjamin's but I love feeling him move.  We get to have a free 4D ultrasound of our little guy on Wednesday, super excited!

*  Amazon.com - how awesome is it?  You can easily find what you want at a pretty comparable price and have it shipped to your door in 2 days.  My kind of shopping.

* seeing a sweet sleeping boy hugging his Floppy on the video monitor, seeing my sweet husband sitting across from me working on a Bible lesson for our small group....I really am blessed.



WInner winner chicken dinner!

So I have no idea where that phrase came from but I'm going with it anyway!

This morning I saw that I had won a $25 Starbucks gift card on a blog giveaway....WOO HOO!  Totally made my morning, and most likely my day.  I guess it's the little things in life.....though a Starbucks card is pretty a-mazing!

Here's to maybe treating myself to a fun drink after my doctor's appointment this morning in anticipation of the card to come soon in the mail!

Check out Becky's blog where I won, it's really cute!

Spending time with Poppy & Gong Gong

After we got home from our little getaway in Bend, we got to spend a few more days with Peter's folks at our house.  We enjoyed a great Sunday service, a fabulous roast lunch, and a fun afternoon and evening together. 

Our little stinker has learned how to grab our laptops, put them on his lap, open them up and say "I play the computer"  It's cute....but not a toy he can play with, ha!

Monday Peter had to work so the rest of us headed out to do a little shopping for some new dishes and a few other things.  While we didn't find the dishes that day, they were able to find an awesome Christmas present for Benjamin.  Since we're all going to Ohio for Christmas together it made sense to have an "early Christmas" so we didn't have to bring the toy back in our luggage. 

I'm pretty sure Benjamin loves Little People Animal Farm.  He was so excited.

Tuesday morning we got up fairly early and all (minus Peter) headed into the car for the drive back to Idaho.  Benjamin and I were going to go spend 4 days with my parents since we aren't going to see them at Christmas.  Benjamin was awesome on the drive over....thanks in part to portable DVD players and Finding Nemo fruit snacks :-)

Thanks for letting us drive back with you Poppy & GongGong.  We had such a great visit with you and can't wait to see you again in a few weeks.



Mini Getaway

Peter and I were lucky enough to get away for a couple of days about 1 1/2 weeks ago.  His parents came up from WA and were gracious enough to take care of Benjamin for us while we headed to Bend.  Peter had planned for us to stay at a nice little condo and get a little rest & relaxation time together before baby boy #2 comes in February!

Life has just been so full and busy so it was SO NICE to just relax.  We stayed up later than we normally do, slept in, drank coffee in bed while we watched tv and vegged in the morning.  We drank latte's while we watched the skiingt Mt. Bachelor, browsed a few stores (didn't buy a thing!), walked around downtown Bend at night enjoying all the Christmas decorations, caroling, free red velvet cupcakes....it was soooo relaxing.  I don't think I'd realized how much I just really needed a bit of time to rest.

Of course I couldn't WAIT to get back to Benjamin and missed him like crazy.  He did really well for his Poppy & GongGong.  He didn't cry when he put them down for the night, was great on their hike at Silver Falls, and showed them his incrediby cute yet ornery stubborn side.  I was really glad he did so well.  When we got home he was a bit more clingy than usual but that's to be expected.

Here's a couple pictures of how beautiful and sunny Bend was, as well as a couple of self-timer couple shots :-)  We had a fabulous time, thanks again sweetheart for planning such a fun getaway and thanks again Poppy & GongGong for taking care of our precious little boy.

a clear picture of the mountains from the car 

driving to Mt. Bachelor 

a few quick shots to remember the baby bump of boy #2  

We had such a fabulous time....love you Peter!!