Merry Christmas

We are headed to Tucson to celebrate the birth of Christ with family.

We are so blessed.

~Merry Christmas from our family to yours~

Waiting for Santa...

We don't have a fireplace so Santa will need to use the front door:




Our stockings are hung and ready! There's one for my Sweetheart, one for me, one for Grievous and a little one for Naboo:

Happy Christmas week!

Our Christmas Tree - the other stuff

I posted the Dallas Cowboy stuff that overwhelms our tree. Here's the rest of the ornaments that adorn the tree.....

My Sweetheart and I are both big football fans, so I managed to sneak in my AZ Cardinals ornaments on the tree. Actually My Sweetheart will claim that he 'allows' these on the tree:

We are HUGE superhero fans so we have a few superhero ornaments on the tree as well. A couple years back we found these next two Hallmark ornaments at Kohl's. There's Clark Kent's suit-jacket hanging on a hanger with the Superman suit hiding underneath:

And we have Wonder Woman's suit, cape and headband hanging on a hanger:

And we have Spiderman hanging out:

And the star of our tree, Superman:

And to masquerade our immaturity, we have the 'normal' stuff too:

We love our 'colorful' tree!

Our Christmas Tree - Dallas Cowboys

Life with a Dallas Cowboy fan is not easy. Take our Christmas tree for example. We have quite a few Cowboy ornaments that are a must on the tree. No negotiation about it.

There's this guy:


And this one:

And this one:

Then there's the ball ornaments:

In different sizes:

And different colors:

And then there's this:

And this:

And of course the Cowboy fan's tree would not be complete without Emmitt Smith:

My Sweetheart loves his Cowboy stuff!

My Wrapping Party - solo

I had a one woman wrapping party today! That sounds funny, I know. Several years ago, before I moved to Phoenix, my sisters and I would have a "wrapping party". We would save all of our wrapping for one day. We would gather at one of our homes where it was just us. We would send husbands and kids away for the day. We would have snacks, drink wine, listen to Christmas music and just wrap away! It made wrapping fun! When I moved to Phoenix, I kept the tradition of a wrapping party but pathetically enough it's became a one woman show! :)

This year, I kept my wrapping simple. I bought three rolls of wrapping paper from the dollar section at Target. Each roll is 40 feet long. It's only about 2 feet wide. The normal wrapping paper is what about 4 feet wide? I had reservations about buying it but I had a lot of shirt and robe boxes to wrap so I figured it wouldn't be too bad. Turns out it was great! I didn't have all the extra cutting and excess paper. There was absolutely no waste whatsoever! Whoever designed that was brilliant! In the past I would also buy different paper for all the different families. My older sister and her family would get one, my younger sister and her family would get another, my cousins would get another, etc. It was cute but expensive and wasteful. This year everyone got the same paper.

I decided in order to make the wrapping special, I would make home-made gift tags. I used my Cricket Expression to cut out tags. I used a stamp with silver ink and a red gel pen to write my to and from names. Then, I attached the tag to the present with red rope ribbon that I got at Walgreens for 99 cents:



It looks cute. It's very simple, but I love it.

And transporting will be easier. Usually I add bows to every gift and by the time we get to my sisters house they have fallen off or are squished beyond recognition. This way, the gift will stay neat and clean:

My Sweetheart was a little surprised that they all looked the same. But when I told him I spent a total of $4 on wrapping paper, he was pleased. The labels didn't cost anything since I used scraps of paper that I had from other projects.

Now that my shopping is done and the wrapping is done I can sit and relax and enjoy all the sappy Christmas movies that are on the Hallmark Channel this week!

Global Home - Candles

My MIL bought me a candle for my birthday this year from a place called Global Home located in Central Phoenix. They have one of a kind items, from rustic furniture to large metal camels -- and tons of candles. Candles that range from $14.99 to $175.99. A huge assortments of all sizes and scents.

She bought me this candle and candle holder for my birthday. It has a "Christmas Spice" scent. I smells wonderful!

It turned out that the candle that she bought me had a defective wick. So we stopped in on Saturday as we were running errands to exchange the candle. We did some browsing as well. We ended up buying two 'cinnamon' scented candles. They are just so cute and rustic looking. I'm not really into rustic decor but I love scented candles so we got these. The candles smell wonderful. They fill the entire room with this great cinnamon scent:

I'm sold on making Global Home my new candle store. They are a little out of the way but totally worth it!

Package at the front door....

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