Check this out...

I just found out about this blog thru my sister-in-law Cassie's blog and I am so happy I did. Right now "its the little things" is having great give aways until midnight tonight to celebrate their 1 year blogging anniversary. She has amazing crafts and ideas for the home and its so creative and inspiring. I cant wait to try a few out. Fair warning if you do check it out, you are going to want to spend some time on it. I had to go back and start from the beginning because I thought it was so great. Enjoy!

Oh Christmas Tree...

Last weekend Jim and I decided to break out the Christmas decorations for the house. There is still more I want to do, but with such a tiny house I don't want it to look too overdone, so for now this is all we have. Last year after buying a real tree and having it die before Christmas we broke down and bought a fake one. The compromise here was that we had to find good scented candles to make it at least smell like Christmas. So we got the tree out of the garage and went to town on rearranging the living room to make it fit. This is our 3rd Christmas in this house and you would think by now we would remember how we set it up the year before. But no, so far we have had a different arrangement every year. But I still like the final outcome. (sorry for the poor quality pics-computer is still broken so had to make due with cell phone pics)

Once we dug out all the stuff I figured I better keep going if I am going to decorate, so while Jim put the ornaments on the tree I did the mantle and everything else.

Jim is so funny, he loves all the decorations and the finished product he just hates doing any of it, except the tree. Last year I did the outside lights myself because he refused; when it was done he actually told me "I think we need more". Needless to say we have no outside lights yet this year :) If it warms up at all I may put some up, we'll see. That's it for now-Here is to celebrating your holidays in warm homes and with the even warmer hearts of your friends and families. Merry Christmas!

Best Husband Award...

My husband, Jim, has to be the best husband in the world. Hands down no competition. For those of you who know him, you know that he hates doctors and I mean with a passion. He will not make a Dr appointment unless he thinks he is physically dying. And to get him to walk into a hospital is like pulling teeth. So its a little funny that Jim actually married me; because for those of you who know me, you know that I tend to be slightly ok majorly accident/illness prone. We are not just talking simple things like a cold or a flu. I always get these crazy things where doctors are completely baffled by what is happening, and it usually takes months of doctors appointments and various ER visits to finally figure things out. I think I hid this fact from him until we were actually married. But in the past few weeks he has started to call me his lemon. As in he got a lemon when he married me. Cute huh, very loving :) But I will let it slide because no matter how much he hates these places he is always sitting by my side waiting patiently for the various tests to be run and the results to come in. I know he hates being there (as we have proven while playing around with the blood pressure machine while waiting) but no matter where he is, what he is doing or how tired he is, he will always come and take care of me and comfort me when I need him the most. Its an amazing feeling to know that someone loves you so much to put their own feelings aside to make sure you are ok. So for that I just wanted to say thank you and that...

Love your little lemon :)