Day 13 - Foyer

I so wish I could take my camera to work so I could maybe get some shots outside of my house.  But, I'm just not comfortable leaving it in the car all day.  sigh...  This is what I call my Grandkid showoff wall in the foyer.  I try to keep the most recent pictures up in here.  This is the first time I had all seven of them up.  Of course, the little 'bubs' at the bottom right has already changed SO much.  But I just LOVE that picture.  I'm also trying to rethink how to redo this wall.  This layout seems so boring to me....

Day 12 - Decorating Pt 3

Finally got my lights figured out and my tree decorated.  Whew!  Now on to the rest of the house. 

Day 11 - Bowls

I love my new Crate & Barrel bowls.....  Need to put some goodies in them...

Day 10 - Nothing

Once again I have no photo.  I could take one now but ...  We had our Annual family Christmas party (the in-laws) and I had too many last minute details to attend to before the party to bother with my daily photo. Now I'm exhausted.  Sooo, will start again tomorrow. This is hard, you know?  Hope I can do better and keep it up for the rest of the year.

Day 9 - Yummy

Spent the day with my best friends (i.e., sisters and daughter) for my daughter's 33rd!!!! birthday.  First up...  some Christmas shopping at the new H&M (not that impressed, I might add) and Crate and Barrel (LOVED it!!)  Then lunch at the Cheese Factory which was YUMMY!!!  This picture was taken with my phone.  Pretty good for not being used to taking pictures thru the LED.  Later that night it was my first experience at a sushi restaurant.  Not at all what I thought.  It was a great day!!!

Day 8 - Christmas Cards

I know, I know...  I've been a slacker.  Missed a few days.  I have no real excuse.  So.. I promise to do better.  (Not that anyone is even looking at this blog.  lol)  So, here's my picture for today.  It's the chore I MUST get done tonight.

Day 5 - Decorating Pt 2

So, we're supposed to have another wind storm tonight.  Not as bad as Thursday's, but still dangerous.  My husband flew some hunters up to So Dakota for pheasant hunting over the weekend and came home today.  Was a little worried because it was snowing with a 70% chance of more snow all day.  While I anxiously awaited his safe return, I decided to get the big tree and the rest of the house decorated.  Thought it'd keep me busy till he got home.  First, tho', I had to cart all the scrapbooking stuff from yesterday back down to my craft room.  Man, we made such a mess!  With that done it was on to the tree... to start with, I turned it on and 2 strands were unlit.  Tried to fix one of them and now I have 3 strands unlit!  Grrr!  Needless to say.....

Day 4 - Scrapbooking

Had the girls over today for scrapbooking.  So fun.  Didn't get as much done as I wanted (mostly laughing, till our bellies ached, at old pictures and LOTS of eating) but did learn how to use my Cricut.  Yay!  Always fun hanging out with my family!

Day 3 - Decorating

I'm having a hard time making this challenge a habit.  I keep forgetting until it's rather late.  Maybe that's a good thing because I have the most trouble getting my images to come out when the lighting is so dark.  I don't want to have to use the flash so instead my images come out dark as well.  Hopefully, one day I'll get it right. 

My goal for today was to get at least one tree up and decorated.  My littlest granddaughter 'helped' me decorate the little tree.  She's 4 1/2 so you can imagine where all the decorations ended up.  =]  This picture was taken of her mother when she was 3 1/2.  My daughter made the ornament when she was 6.  My granddaughter wanted it prominantly displayed toward the top of the tree.

Day 2 - Lights Out

I almost didn't get a picture at all for day 2 (which was yesterday).  First of all I can't take a camera into my work... that means my phone as well.  And at home, our power was out for 12+ hrs so by the time I got home it was pitch black up here.  (And if I'm honest, there was so much going on yesterday that I really forgot until after I'd gotten home  :/)  We had some crazy, crazy hurricane force winds yesterday.  The drive home was interesting to say the least.  Stop and go all the way.  Huge trees totally uprooted.  Saw a car that was completely smashed by one.  In retrospect there were several opportunities to take a picture with my phone but really.. I just wanted to get home and out of the wind.  So this is all I was able to come up with.