Tuesday's Treasure and Tuesday's Timewarp

Tuesday's Treasure MeMe:

I know that today is Wednesday...So no I am not crazy hehehe but my dear friend Christy over at Petals and Pines hostess two different Memes every Tuesday that I have really enjoyed since she started them...So I decided to join in with her but I am a day late so I will be posting both pictures for the two memes in today's post combined....

This is a Tuesday treasure for me because last year around this time on a Tuesday (seriously) we received four to six inches of snow, which it had been about 8 years since we had snow here in my town. Which I thought this was a perfect treasure because so many of my dear followers and fellow bloggers are all snowed in because of the snow storm that hit the Midwest and the west. So here is a picture that we take of our back deck... I sure wish we could have a white Christmas this year, but I don';t see it happening....


Tuesday's Time warp:

Well here is a picture of me and my sister...My sister is going to be mad when she goes to my blog this morning and sees this picture...(sorry sissy....I still love you) but I just had to take it back to the day when we were learning to do our own hair because my mom said that we were getting old enough to try to do it...It looked a hot mess lol so you gals have my permission to laugh it up ok..... I laugh and laugh when I ask my mom for a good picture this morning to do Tuesday's Timewarp and this is what she give me lol by the way yep this me on the right with the brace on my hand and I probably mad because my hair was a horrible sight and I still had to go with my mom to church anyway lol...and that is my twin sister Latrice on the left just smiling.

Christmas Tour in My Home Part 1

Well ladies I have finally posted a Christmas Home Tour....I am not quite finish yet I have to put up the rest of the lights outside around the house but I have to wait until the next time my hubby is off and then I have to finish putting up the children 's stockings and some other things in and around the house...So I hope you guys enjoy part 1 I am hoping to be back with part 2 by next week.

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A Christmas Survey......

My dear friend and Sugar pie sister Christy over at Petals and Pines tagged me in this Christmas Meme and if you would like to join in just jump right in....and while you are at it hop on over to Christy's blog and say hello....


About the TREE....
1.When do you put up the Christmas tree? In our house we always put the tree up the night of Thanksgiving..
2. Real or fake? We have a fake pre-lit tree that we add red lights too.
3. Lights? What color?clear and red .
4. Garland? yes we use red and green.
5. Theme or no theme? We don't have a particular theme this year.
6. What kind of topper? A red and gold angel
7. What's your favorite ornament? The red Cardinal birds, that is North Carolina state bird : )
8. What does your tree skirt look like? A red velvet one
9. Where do you put your tree? In the corner near the door so it can be seen when someone walks in the house..
10. Who decorates the tree? . The whole family.
11.What's "under" the tree? Nothing yet, I have not wrapped anything as of yet, just been lazy I guess...
12. Do you put candy canes on your tree? Not this year, but years before

About the FOODS....
1. What's your favorite Christmas cookie? Gingerbread
2. Do you bake cookies and give them away? Every year, but this year we are doing something different we are doing the cookies in the jar gifts, it's were we put everything in a mason jar that lets a person bake the cookies when they are ready straight from the jar...
3. Any "special" foods or candy that you only have at Christmas time? My hubby's famous CHEESE BALLS...
4. What do you eat Christmas EVE? Not much, we do sub sandwiches and finger foods, we don't want to get to full and have a belly ache before the Christmas feast the next day.
5. What do you eat on Christmas day? Breakfast: French toast coffee and orange juice...usually lunch we eat on appetizers, like cheese balls and dips and then dinner it's the works, turkey , ham, dressing, and every dessert that we can think of.
6. Do you like Eggnog?? I love eggnog, and especially the eggnog coffee cream flavor that is out now..
7. Do you like candy canes? I love peppermint all year anyway,
1. Where do you hang your stockings? I have not put them up yet, but we hang them near the tree
2. Do you put lights on your house? We do chaser lights
3. Got any outside lawn decorations? We will be putting up a snowman globe along with the two reindeer as soon as my hubby has another day off.....We did the front porch already.
4. Do you put up a nativity (crèche)? Not outside but in the house there are two.
5. Do you hang mistletoe over the door? No , to be honest never through about it.
6. Got a wreath on your front door? No I have a Happy Holidays door cover
7. How long does it take you to decorate? Put it this way I am still putting up decorates on Christmas Eve lol
About the movies/show
1 . Favorite Children's Xmas TV show/cartoon? Charlie brown Christmas, and Holiday in Handcuffs...lol
2. Wonderful Life/Miracle on 34th St/A ChristmasCarol (Scrooge)..Hands down a Christmas Carol
Favorite Christmas movie?? It's a Wonderful Life, we watch it as a family ever single year.
4. Have you ever seen the Nutcracker Suite Ballet live? Yes, here in my state capital Raleigh it was here about three years ago and the women and the little girls of our family went we really enjoyed it.
5. Ever been to the Radio City Music Hall Christmasshow?? No.
6. Ever gone to the movies on Xmas Day? No

Other Christmas things....
1. Favorite Christmas book or story? The story of Jesus birth, and The Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
2. Do you stuff your stockings with any types of food? For the fur kids? We do little toys and apples and oranges
3. Do you go to church on Christmas or Christmas Eve? We go on Christmas eve and that is when the youth of our church do there Christmas program.
4. Have you ever gone Caroling? When I was little with my church group
5. Favorite Christmas Carol? "Let it snow, Let it snow by Doris Day
6. Do you believe in Santa? Yes
7. Do you leave Santa cookies? Yes I do, but my hubby tells the children that Santa is a diabetic (my hubby is a type 1 diabetic) so he tells them instead of cookies Santa whats cheese balls lol. I know we should not tell them this but we are just been real
8. What about Rudolph...we leave out reindeer food which is just a brown lunch bag which we put in oatmeal and silver glitter and then sparkle it on the lawn for the reindeer.
9. What was your best Christmas gift? My lap top lol
10. What was the worst/most odd gift? Must we go there hehehe.
11. Do you go to a "work" Christmas party? We go to Cedric's every year and his company goes all out.
12. Do you hate going? I love going
13. Do you send Christmas cards? I send a lot every year
14. Do you make a "list"? Yes
15. Do you check it twice? & thrice & etc...Yes,
16.When do you start shopping? In the summer time lol
17.Do you shop on Black Friday? Yes, I love all of the great deals
20. ARE YOU READY FOR CHRISTMAS? I LOVE CHRISTMAS and I am always excited and ready I am like a big kid..

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1. SunnySide (Amy) @http://keepnthesunnyside.blogspot.com/
2.Farmhouse County@http://farmhousecountrystyle.blogspot.com/
3.Lauren@http://southernsassafrasblog.blogspot.com/
and to the rest of the sugar pie farmhouse gals...

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If you wold like to join in with this wonderful day book happenings ...please feel free to visit Peggy at her blog, she is a wonderful hostess and would love for you guys to visit..

FOR TODAY... December 7, 2009

Outside my window... It is a cold day out, I can tell by the frost on the windows....It's suppose to be in the low 50s today here....

I am thinking...about all of the things I have to do this week...

I am thankful for... all of my friends and family and my Sugar pie Farmhouse Sisters...You gals are the best...

I am wearing... a thick denim skirt with a white blouse with a Christmas tree on the front, and cozy bedroom slippers on my feet, with my hair in a ponytail...

I am remembering... how much fun we had for Cedric's birthday celebration this weekend, we really enjoy the movie " The Christmas Carol" in 3-D and our meal at Logan's Steakhouse...

I am going... to my eldest daughter choir performance tomorrow and then both girls dance performance is Saturday night...I will take plenty of pictures of both girls performances so everyone can see

I am currently reading... my Bible, I am currently reading in Matthew and I am trying to keep up with my sugar pie sisters group and finish reading the book we are all currently reading.

I am hoping... for a snowy Christmas : )

On my mind... the new baby that, the Lord's willing will be joining us in June, so he or she will be with us this time next year to celebrate Christmas with the family

Noticing that... my children are growing so much with each passing day.

Pondering these words... "Jesus says: 'Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened. And I will give you rest for your souls'" (Matthew 11:28)

From the kitchen... Breakfast: hot french toast and maple syrup, Lunch: tuna salad and chips, and for Dinner: Baked chicken and green beans with cheesy potatoes and a pound cake for dessert.

Around the house... just finishing up some Christmas decorations outside, and some of the daily things that need to be done.

One of my favorite things... is with all of this cold weather and rain, cuddling with my family and watching Christmas movies (It's a Wonderful Life lol) and drinking hot cocoa.

From my picture journal...

Doesn't this picture just make you want to walk down the street and glaze at the Christmas lights and go shopping in the vintage shop for Christmas, this small town reminds me of the small town off of the Coast of Maine called Cape Light it's a little fitious town in the books my Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer. This picture is also painted by Thomas Kinkade and for everyone that knows me knows I love everything writing and painted by Thomas Kinade...Have a great week everyone.

Happy Birthday Cedric

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Today is my dear hubby birthday and he turned the big 32 years old today.....I am just wishing him a happy birthday and may God bless him with many many more so that I may share these years with him.

Today the kids and I are taking him to see the movie The Christmas Carol because Jim Carey is one of his favoriate actors.



Then The children and I are taking him to his favorite resturant which is Logan's steakhouse. He loves their peanuts that we can just eat out of vintage buckets.



And then after all that our small town Christmas parade starts at 4:30 this afternoon so we will be capping off the evening with the parade. So I guess we will be seeing an early movie and early dinner so that we can make it to the Christmas parade......Have a great weekend everyone and be blessed.....

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Our Town Holiday Tree Lighting...

Oh friends my family and I had so much fun at our annual downtown tree lighting on November 24. What the lighting up of downtown is when the city hall decorates all of downtown in lights and Christmas things then the mayor of our town turns the switch at 5:30 on The Tuesday before Thanksgiving and I must tell you it is beautiful. I am sorry that I forgot to take a picture of our town's annual Christmas tree in the middle of downtown but the lights are lit every night downtown until new years day so i will get one soon. We had a chance to meet the Grinch, Blues Clues,Santa Claus, the Gingerbread Man and many others. We rode on trolley rides, drank hot chocolate and ate doughnuts, and cookies. We listen to the Christmas carols while we had face painting and the children made reindeer food...Which I thought was a neat idea...all it is, is were the children each take a brown lunch bag and decorated any way that they what too and then the feel the bag with oatmeal and silver glitter and that was reindeer food..hehe its that a great idea.They are suppose to spread it outside for Santa's reindeer on Christmas eve. Well anyway we had a great time and we look forward to it every year.....I know some of the pictures are a little dark but we had trouble with the flash on the camera. So please enjoy and I will talk to everyone later this week....

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(Again I am sorry if the pictures are blurry or dark we were having problems with the camera)

Happy Thanksgiving.........

Well friends today is the day that we set aside to say why we are so thankful.......Well I am thankful all year round and today I am thankful for family, friends, and for Christ giving up his life for mine....So don't eat to much turkey and dressing with out telling why you are so thankful.....Have a wonderful day and my God bless and keep you all doing this joyous holidays.

Thanksgiving Comments - Myspace Comments

Hello everyone I just wanted everyone to see the new blog button I have created and will be posting a link soon so that everyone can copy it and post it on their blog....But here is a sneak peek:

I will back back soon with a link....

The new button for my blog is now posted....If you are having trouble with copying and pasting the button please let me, this is my first time ever trying to make a blog button.....lol I hope everyone likes it.