Take THAT January blues....(picture one Chuck Norris roundhouse here)

The projects around our house continue...this is my mom on the left, me in the middle and Elle on the right. All with Santa. I love having these things from different generations.


I wanted to make Elle something special each year for Christmas. So, I bought the holiday stamps and clear ornaments. I wrote the year and the price I paid for the stamps before I put the stamps in the ornament so we would remember how much we were paying.

This one was fun to make. Real branches, birds from Hobby Lobby, a little fake snow and a large clear ornament.

Yeah, I've decorated the house for winter. I left out the snow covered tree and broke out the figure skates. I didn't learn to skate very well with figure skates, I use hockey skates, but these are fun to use in the house.

Mom has my sled that they gave me as a Christmas gift one year, so we found this one on Craigs List and just added a little blue and white ribbon and some pine boughs.

Dad sacrificed some firewood in order to make these candle holders for the fireplace. Also, I added some batting and lights on a white string.

Hear no evil.

Friends!

Great for reading....

and great for chewing.

I got the best thank you card from some of our friends for their Christmas gift..."A friend knows you love guns, but a good friend knows what kind of ammo you need!" It really can't be said any better than that.

Elle was sick for the first time after Christmas. It was just a cold, but we went to the doctor and was actually glad we did. She didn't have an ear infection but the possibility was there. Dr. Harvey said that if she looks like me and I had ear infections, she would be more likely to get them since our heads would be shaped the same way. He gave her some medicine to get cleared up and she really started feeling better after that. Now we are just working on getting her to bed and sleeping all night again, since that went right out the window when she was sick.

As my fast of facebook and desserts continue, I've also made a resolution to read more and learn more this year. Currently, I'm reading Death by Church, Bringing up Girls...and will be starting a novel just for fun. Matt has also downloaded the "stuff you should know" podcast to my ipod. In the queue for reading material...God and Ronald Regan and Decision Points by Dubya. I also discovered the Smithsonian Channel this morning and am watching The Genius of Design, which is about the Bauhaus and Modernist movement of design, which I learned about in college, but when you aren't forced to do something, it's actually enjoyable.

What's Daniel Tosh wearing this season on Tosh.0? Colla! Or collared shirts. One season, he wore casual jackets. Matt has a casual jacket and nearly every time he wears it, one of us declares "casual jacket" Don't know what I'm talking about? Daniel Tosh is a comedian on comedy central. It's a terrible show, don't watch it. Although the season premier last week was really good, I'm an Antoine Dodson fan, I mean, really, who isn't?
Hide your kids, hide your wife. I heard a radio interview with Antoine a few weeks ago, thanks to the remix of the interview, they have moved out of the projects and he is returning to school, majoring in business...awesome!