Package at the front door....

It was from COACH! I can't wait to open it!!!!

Christmas lights!

We walked around the neighborhood this evening. The neighborhood is aglow and it looks beautiful! I love it!

It's so hard to get a good picture of the lights. My Sweetheart loves to put lights on the bushes and on the ground and on the trees. He goes ALL out.

My contribution was the green light bulb in the outside lanterns:



When I get get better pictures, I'll post them.

Coach Site DOWN!

The Coach website was down this afternoon. My Sweetheart went online to order my Christmas gift and right in the middle of our order, the site went DOWN! So we called the toll free number like the site instructed to do and all the associates were BUSY! We had to leave our name and number and wait for a call back. It turns out that the site was down because today was the last day to use the By Invitation Only 25% off the entire purchase that we got in the mail. It expired today (which is why we were placing our order) and so was the rest of the nation and the entire site freaked out and just shut down. OMS!

We got a call back within 20 minutes only to find the two items that were sitting in our checkout cart were OUT OF STOCK! Can you believe it??? So my Sweetheart, being the sweetheart that he is, asked if the two items were available to place on back order (I REALLY wanted these two items) and they were not. So then he asked if any of the local stores had the items in stock. They did not. Bummer. Then he asked if any stores had them. They found one in Southern California! We called to find they had just run out. Double bummer. But my Sweetheart, he's a persistent one, he called another store in Southern California and they had both items in stock! YAY!!!

He's been on the phone for the past hour trying to order 2 items for me. What a Sweetheart indeed. He makes me feel like the most special person in the entire world. xxxooo

Christmas decor, part 3 - living room

The living room generally gets covered in Christmas decor. This year, I decided to cut back a little and kept it simple. On the coffee table, I changed out the candles on the pillars I keep here year round and added some garland and ornaments. I also found this chrome dove at Joanne's that I fell in love with -- and it was on sale!

The end table has an electrical train decoration and colorful coasters from Pier 1:

The other end table has this glass container that I filled with white and red jingle bells that I got on clearance at Walmart last season:

This cute Santa sits on the same table and is sort of used to cover up the back of the frames that face the dining area. You can't really see them because my picture is so dark:

These Christmas blocks that I got on clearance at Hobby Lobby last year were arranged by My Sweetheart. I always line them up neatly in a row and he comes by and sets them askew:

I got this guy for about $7 at Joanne's when they were having a 60% off sale:

My candles got the red berries treatment:

I love this. Not a great picture but I placed these red branches in a vase, added a silver bow and a string of lights and it makes for a very festive hallway:



Even The Aerial Assault got in on the decorating:

That's all for now. I'll post the Christmas tree and the outside lights and my wreath soon!

Off to bed. We have a full day planned for tomorrow!

Christmas decor, part 2 - Christmas Village

Here's the other little tree I got at Target. They are so adorable. The pictures I take just do not do them justice. I think I need a new camera because my pictures are so dull...??? It's possible I just need a better photographer :)

This tree sits between the dining area and the living room:


Here's some of my Christmas village. It's hard to take a good photo of it. There are 6 houses in total. This year I put put a string of lights down and then placed the house around the lights. Then I covered the entire surface with the fluffy white stuff. I don't know what it's called but it looks like snow. It's super cute:

Oh, and my Sweetheart always manages to sneak Darth Vader into my village. It's pretty deranged but what the heck. It' makes people laugh when they see it:

We are HUGE Star Wars fans by the way. In case you didn't already figure that one out.

Christmas decor, part 1

I have a lot of pictures so I will post in parts. I'll start with the entrance way and the kitchen and dining area. Here's the entrance way. Last year I got some great after Christmas deals at Target. I got two of these little Christmas trees in urns for almost nothing. They are adorable! I placed one in the entrance way.

The little trees have red berries, pine cones and Christmas lights on them:


I got this Christmas countdown calendar at the $1 section at Target last year:


I got this cute tree and the little ornaments at Pier 1 last year:

Last year my entrance way table with my Nativity scene was a little boring - here. So this year I added the lighted garland around the mirror. I like the way it looks:

My shelf in the kitchen got dressed up with a lighted wreath and a snowman:


As always, Grievous' biscuit jar got decorated with a pretty red bow:

I love this plate:

My centerpiece that I adorned a little more than I did last year:


This is the front of my centerpiece. Someone stuck his Dallas Cowboy nutcracker in the middle of it:
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Living room and Christmas Tree and Christmas wreath to follow!

Oh Christmas Tree and Naboo

What a FUN weekend we had! My Sweetheart says he would not describe our weekend as fun. He said it was 'crazy busy'. We went to Tucson on Saturday evening to celebrate 4 birthdays with my family. While in Tucson, we find that a stray dog showed up at my sister's house. A cute, lovable pit-bull mix. She showed up for 2 nights in a row, trying to find a warm place to sleep. They didn't want to keep her and were going to call the Animal Shelter so My Sweetheart and I decided to bring her home.


She rode in the backseat and didn't make a fuss. She came into the house and made herself at home in the laundry room. My Sweetheart took her to the vet on Sunday morning where she got her shots, got a clean bill of health and was groomed. Then we took her to Pet smart and she got a new pink collar, harness and leash. Oh and a fancy bed. Seems to me what started out as "let's take her and find a good home for her" has turned into "I think someone has moved in"....


Meet Lady Naboo:



After we got Naboo settled in, we headed out to do some Christmas tree shopping. This will be the first year we get a fresh cut tree. We have a 9ft artificial tree that we use every year but this year since we have tile floor we figured we could handle a fresh cut one -- clean up shouldn't be too bad.



We stopped at the Annual Poinsettia Festival to find they had overpriced trees. So we went to Home Depot and found the perfect 8 ft tree. We tied it to the top of the 4Runner and brought it home:

We got her all settled in. Then we sat to watch the SNF game and got lazy. So the tree currently sits like this:

I think it's a beautiful tree. We will probably start to trim it on.....Thursday. I can't wait!! I have the entire house (minus the tree) decorated. Can't wait to post pictures!