#leslie226decdaily2013

Well, I completed the first 6 days of my December Daily 2013!  

I'm keeping it very simple. No stress. Just daily pics, paper and a few stickers. 

Day 1: 

Day 2:

Day 3:

Day 4:

Day 5:

Day 6:

That's it. And printing them through my Walgreens app made it super easy. 

December Daily {2013}

I am extremely excited to complete a December Daily book this year!!

I bought some supplies at Hobby Lobby and a local craft store.
And I think I'm ready to go.  My biggest challenge will be getting the pictures printed in a timely manner.  I really want to get them printed every few days so I can actually have the album finished when December ends.... I am hoping to journal and add items to the album every day as it happens!

So, the plan is to keep this book out in a convenient place that will be easily accessible.

The title page is complete and ready for a pic!

I had thought about do a photo prompt list, BUT I decided that I'd rather just go with something that our family is doing that day.

I've made a list of helpful ideas to remember this month as I'm taking pics:

 (and other things I might want to add to the book)

1. baking/recipes
2. gingerbread house
3. advent
4. shopping
5. xmas list/letter to Santa
6. letter to Carson
7. Santa visit
8. watching holiday movies
9. lights
10. tree/ornaments
11. crafting
12. songs
13. colors- red...white....green
14. mantle
15. presents
16. special numbers
17. the weather
18. celebrate/merry/bright
19. our xmas card
20. parties
21. selfies
22. photo collages
23. routines
24. things around the house
25. the night before xmas traditions
26. opening presents
27. family
28. Ollie
29. hot chocolate
30. pajamas
31. elf on the shelf
32. nativity
33. reading the xmas story
34. peppermint concretes at Andy's (of course)
35. receipts
36. ticket stubs (we might see a live show this year)
37. SDC visits

I'm pretty sure this list will be enough for me to get 31 pics in December!

I can't wait to do this.  I took a pic each day last December, but I didn't make an album.

So, this should be fun!

Who is going to join me?????

let Santa eat cake!

We left cake for Santa this year.  We figured it might be a nice change from all the cookies he would probably be eating.  We also left a gingerbread house for him to see.  We always leave it under the tree so Santa can see our handywork. 

As we were preparing the plate, Eric took a drink of Santa's milk.  Carson was MORTIFIED that he drank out of Santa's glass.  Eric said, "Santa won't know the difference."  But, Carson was not having it.  He made us get a new glass.  Of course, Santa would not want to drink after Daddy.

We read The Night Before Christmas.  This is a recordable book that my mom and dad read and recorded for him a few years ago.  It's nice that they can be the ones to read it to him.  And, we read the actual reason for the season Christmas story from the book of Luke. 

After Santa came and left his presents..

 

 

....and ate the cake and milk.

Carson did get up about 5:00 am on Xmas morning, ran into the living room, saw the presents, then ran back and said, "I DID make the nice list.  I KNEW it!"

Then got back in bed and slept a few more hours until it was morning. 

I'm so glad he's a good sleeper!

 

Such a sweet boy....

christmas morning {25}

Our Christmas card...

After Santa brought all the presents....

Santa wrapped his presents in the red and white paper...

And Christmas morning, we had one excited little boy.

Where to start???

Ollie enjoyed his bag of treats from Santa while we opened presents. :)

Our family yearly shutterfly book... a Christmas tradition.

Carson loves watching Beaker from the Muppets on YouTube when he "sings" Ode to Joy!  And a friend of Eric's at work told us they had a Hallmark ornament of it.  When you push the button, he sings the song!  More like Me-me-me-me  Me-me-me-me  Me-me-me-me-meeee Me-me...  It's.  too.  cute.

It was a great Christmas morning, and we were so thankful that Ollie was there to enjoy it with us.

After presents, we went to church and enjoyed a great service.  Grandma and Grandpa came by that afternoon to see all of Carson's new toys.  And, later that night, Grandma Pat, Scott, Kelly, and Sam stopped by for a while.

Carson got a circuit set from Santa that he absolutely LOVES!  It kept him quite busy for a good part of the day.

Uncle Scott enjoyed playing with it also!

And, Sam and Kelly were able to play with their Nooks at our house since something with their internet wasn't letting them use them at their house.

And, we talked with Keri and Kendall on Skype with Grandma.

It's hard to believe this is our 6th Christmas with our boy.
(7th if you consider the year he was big in my tummy for Xmas.)

 Every year just flies by even faster than the year before.

a marre Christmas 2011 {24}

Christmas Eve was eventful, to say the least....

Ollie got into something late morning and was acting disoriented, couldn't walk, and was just out of it.
It was so bad, that we were pretty scared and ended up taking him the the pet hospital in Springfield.  They gave him charcoal and fluids to absorb what he might have eaten.  They vet said his heartbeat was very slow, and not normal.  I believe we would have lost our puppy had we not taken him in so quickly.

Ollie had to stay at the vet for a few hours to make sure he was okay.  Eric came home and we ate lunch with my family.  I usually like to take a pic the feast, but in all the chaos with Ollie, I could barely think straight and pictures were the last thing on my mind.

The Christmas menu:  a Castlewood ham from Sam's (Eric's brother, Kendall, designed this ham for Sam's.  It's a bone-in ham that has the bone taken out and then it has a great marinade with it), bacon wrapped pork tenderloin, bacon wrapped green beans, home made mac-n-cheese, and garlic bread.

After dinner, we opened presents of course!

Mom made a new scarf for Eric.

A new "mom" bracelet that Carson picked out at school.

A Darth Vader alarm clock from Gma and Gpa...

A new jacket for Ted from us.

And, new Carson books for Grandma and Grandpa.  A Christmas tradition.

Eric's new hat.

 Some family china for me.

Carson picked out this mouse pad for Eric...

I tried to edit the red eye out of these pics, and they are edited out on iphoto BUT will not seem to upload with the changes on Blogger.  So, I gave up and am using the red eye pics.

After presents, Eric went to get Ollie.  He was doing much better, back to normal, an happy to be home!

He got a new sweater from Grandma!