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I can't believe another year has passed! MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY 2009 EVERYONE! I also can't believe the entire month of December somehow flew by without a single blog entry. All I can say is life has been crazy! (In a good way.) We have bee [Read More]

It's been a busy few weeks around here, so I have a lot to catch up on! We celebrated our 27th anniversary the week before Christmas. It turned out that we had a church choir rehearsal/party that night, so we went out to eat before the party. I ga [Read More]

This year Christmas kind of snuck up on me. I did zero decorating, made one type of cookie and didn't send out cards. On the bright side, this means there is very little to clean up and store away.br /br /a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ZHRYEMFps48 [Read More]

It's time to catch up on our Christmas activities this year. I hadn't posted the tree yet, so here it is:br /br /img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3212/3138335474_f962e9cdae.jpg?v=0br /br /Christmas day broke our 5 day string of snow shoeing in [Read More]

A huge thank you to everyone who voted for us in 1912 Bungalow’s Make the Season Bright contest. Because of you, we placed third, winning a Home Depot gift card! We’re very happy — for while the contest may be over, our home improv [Read More]

So, my mom, dad and sister came in this weekend and we exchanged our “Buy Nothing” gifts.  The point of “Buy Nothing Christmas” is to make something or do a service instead of buying a generic, overpriced gift from the store. [Read More]

Winston underneath the tree Our house is finally decked out for the holidays. After a slow start this year, we finished with the holiday decorations yesterday. Just in the nick of time! Don’t forget to vote for your favorite house in our Make T [Read More]

Today school is out and we don’t go back for two weeks! Yay! I came home and looked at my “To-Do” list… Decorate [Check] Send Christmas Cards [Check] Buy/Make Presents [Check] Clean house, get ready for family coming in [Doubl [Read More]

Just a quick note today to post a couple of photos of our Christmas tree. In my last post, I wrote that we cut down a tree on our property and used the top of it for our Christmas tree. It has a huge gap on one side and no branches in the back so it [Read More]

It is not too late to enter! Submit a photo of your house decorated for the holidays for a chance to win a light fixture from Schoolhouse Electric Co., $75 Home Depot gift card or a $50 Home Depot gift card. Enter to win! Related posts:Taking A Fr [Read More]

…at least in the living room.  Living room decorated for the holidays Unfortunately, the rest of the house is still a mess.  I don’t really feel like sharing photos of the chaos, so here’s another view of the holiday decor&#82 [Read More]

So, we decided to walk our property after church today to see if we might be able to find a tree suitable for use as a Christmas tree. We discovered that the ponds are partially frozen, but with the warmer weather today and tomorrow I bet the ice do [Read More]

It's been a long time coming, but we now have mirrors in our master bathroom! We had to special order the one for over my sink/vanity area, but it finally arrived. DH made frames for them to match the frames on the cabinet doors... Here is DH's mirr [Read More]

This past weekend, Steven, Vivian and I joined Brad, Amy, Julie and Riley Scroggs at the Natchitoches Christmas Festival.  It was a lot of fun.  Here we are waiting on the parade.  It was loud and crowded, but it is worth going to see the Christma [Read More]

Every year since we've been married, Kevin and I have bought our tree from the University of Minnesota's Forestry Club. For those of you city dwellers, they are located just North of the St. Paul campus. They have a nice little trailer where they h [Read More]

Our old buddy Noel showed up last night, like he does every year about this time. Noel's been around long before we came to Foxcroft, easily 20 years. Here he is:br /img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3282/3077844880_e6e0bec85d.jpg?v=0br /br /Noe [Read More]

I received a 3 foot tall "tinsel-tree" as a XMas gift a few years ago; but hadn't had the chance to really put it up. My sister was excited when she found the ornaments, both at the store and in my box of goodies. While we did spend the better part [Read More]

I love how our Honda minivan is just big enough for a 4x8 sheet of plywood. Fold down the back seat and remove the two middle seats, throw all the junk into the front seat and you can slide a sheet on plywood right in, barely.The Mrs has this "antiqu [Read More]

If the music in the big box retailers and the emails going back forth amongst my friends is any indication, I should be thinking about Christmas.  Yes, even though it's not even Thanksgiving yet.And I am thinking about Christmas - my family is com [Read More]

So is anyone else getting excited about Christmas? Yes?!? Oh goody!I try to keep my excitement to myself, at least until the day after Thanksgiving - I don't want to burn anyone out. This year it's worse though, the restless feeling that I need to [Read More]