What our Christmas looks like...

It's the most wonderful time of the year....



Thought I'd send out a few pictures of what our Christmas looks like at our house...I am in love with any vintage decoration or ornament...I have recently been picking up vintage Santa's too...

We have our main tree filled with vintage ornaments...I will send a pic out later...have to wait til' it's dark to see it glowing...



the mantle...

the dining room...different theme in here...brown/gold/outdoorsy...

anyone remember these bird singing balls? our grandma had one when we were little...found this last year and had to have it for that very reason...

this little tree is in the same room as our main tree, this one holds nursery rhyme vintage ornaments and some very old odds and ends dealing with the holidays...

this our key we keep outside for Santa in case he can't get down our chimney for some reason...

traci~momma

Long time, no blogging...stupid computer...

Once again, I am sorry for not blogging in decades...this time our monitor shut down for no apparent reason...gosh, I just love computers and how I'm so lost without one...

So in this post, there are several different events-all combined... so sit back and enjoy...it's good to be back.


Case had his first preschool program a couple weeks ago...he's really shy, so we bribed him with a pop...silly, I know. but we never drink pop in our house, and he's had a taste of Pepsi, thanks to grandpa Billy...so that's what he wanted...on the condition he sang and participated at his program...and he did. He was so cute up there singing and doing the motions...we were so proud of him!! That's our little baby up there!!!! :(

Okay, so Coke and Pepsi are the same to a little boy who never gets pop!!!
He was asking daddy if we could go already...Case, they're not going to run out of pop at the gas station...

God, please let this program be over quick...

Last week we headed over to a retirement party for one of Jim's co-workers...they boy's had tons of cake, punch, and chips and salsa...(for two weeks these kids have had nothing but junk!)...

"I am Shining Moon"...I come in peace...

Hayden's class had a Thanksgiving Feast...they made their own costumes...aren't they cute...he came home, hid in the bedroom and then came out to show me his outfit!!!

For Thanksgiving we went to Aunt Marsha and uncle Dick's again...we always have a fantastic time there...Marsha went all out for us this year spending $5.99... :)

The turkey's cutting the turkey...

traci~momma

a few more...

Here are a few more pictures from our photo shoot a couple weeks ago...

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Who?!?!?

Last night the boys had a little trouble falling asleep right away, so I snuggled with each one of them in their beds. When I reached Case's room, we laid in silence, with his tiny arms stretched out around me and said..."momma...did you know that Bob Ricky drives race cars?"
"Who", I asked!?!?! "Bob Ricky!!!" he said.
Then I knew what he was talking about...Ricky Bobby off Tallidaga Nights...
I said "Don't you mean Ricky Bobby?" "Yeah", he said...like that's what he'd been saying the whole conversation...I had to keep from laughing until I went downstairs...I couldn't wait to share Bob Ricky's news with Jim!!!! I love what kids say and how they get stuff messed up!!! :)

nothing new going on here...

Nothing really to blog about right now...
This was taken last week...

traci~momma

Puttin' out fires...

Last Friday at MOPS (Mothers of preschoolers), we were taught how to use a fire extinguisher... it was great, I had never used one before...hopefully I will never have the chance to try out my new skills...!!!

(thanks to Wendy who took my picture for the blog...she has her own blog by the way...go check her out here.)

traci~momma

SNEAK PEAK

Here's a little "nibble" of our photo session we had yesterday after church...I told the boys we were going to get our pictures taken...so they would be more careful about not getting dirty within 5 minutes of getting dressed...
We got to our destination and Case goes "who's comin' to take our pictures?" I responded, "aahh, Me"... sorry to disappoint you...I guess for the last few months we've had a thousand pictures taken with Jenni's wedding and receptions by a real photographer... sorry, momma's just a wanna-be... :)

(be sure to click on the picture to enlarge it so you can read the captions...Case came in while I was working on this picture on the computer and wanted to know why I was making rain clouds over our heads!)

traci~momma