Christmas Tradition

Every family has their own family traditions. One that we have, is with ornaments. Since Mike and I have been married, every year we get a dated ornament. In previous years, we've usually gotten them from the local Hallmark store, but this year I decided to get it a little more personalized. We actually have one similar to this from when we were dating that my sister-in-law gave us. I love this year the most probably more than any of the others.

Checking it twice!

Yes, that's right. Today was a day to check things off my list. With all of my Christmas shopping 99% done, today was a day to wrap and get catch up. 

Boy have we had a rough week. Actually November and December have not been very nice to us in the Nelson household. Sullivan had an ear infection and I had bronchitis in November and this week everyone got the flu. It started with Sullivan on Wednesday morning at daycare. Mike stayed home with him on Wednesday and Thursday and then on Thursday night Mike got the bug. By morning it was my turn, so Mike and I were both home on Friday while Sullivan went back to daycare. No fun for anyone. Thank goodness we were all feeling a little better on Saturday but still not 100%. I fully disinfect the bathrooms, floors and pretty much everything else on Saturday. I couldn't imagine what it would have been like if all of us would have gotten sick at the same time.

Today was a much better day and things were back to normal. We went to church this morning and came home to wrap presents, watch the snow fall, and do a little baking. It was the perfect day to snuggled inside. I love watching the white stuff fall but I am less than thrilled to drive in it! 

Christmas is only 17 days away. How are you doing on your shopping? I can't wait for the holidays, to spend time with family, see the magic starting to form in Sullivan and have a vacation. Yes I am anxiously awaiting being off of work from December 20th through the end of year. I know it will go fast!

The Most Wonderful time of the Year!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!    Well in the Nelson household anyways. We've even already had a dusting of snow last week to add to the Christmas feeling.

This week starts the busy holiday time. Thanksgiving is on Thursday followed by Black Friday and then on to December. I cannot believe how fast this year has flown by. I want to make sure to soak up all the holidays has to offer and make the most of it for my little guy, who is acting very "big boy" lately. I believe he is in a growth spurt. He is eating lots and all the time. His vocabulary is extending and becoming clearer, and did I mention how big he's getting? The last couple of weeks I've stepped back and just watched him.. while he's playing, talking, listening, and learning. All make him seem so big.

This weekend, we decided to make the most of our free weekend. It's the first in a long time we both, Mike and I, had nothing to do and no where to go on Saturday or Sunday for the most part. So what did we do? Well we did spring cleaning in November! I'm a little behind but I've been wanting to organize, clean out, and rearrange rooms and closets since Sullivan was born. We went to town on Saturday morning. Our "office" is now the workout room, office and play room. Our guest bedroom is actually a usable guest bedroom, we no longer have stuff consuming the floor and bed. So visitors are welcome! We even managed to put a chair and foot rest in there; Sullivan thinks it's quite cozy. We rearranged our guest bedroom closet for all of Mike's Red Piglet merchandise and business equipment and our hall closets are neat and organized as well.

Once that was out of the way we went on to decorating for Christmas. We kept it simple this year with the tree. I wasn't too sure how Sullivan would do with ornaments and all. We put a small tree in the corner of our living room with just lights and non breakable/non edible candy canes. We also put up our stockings, our card holder, a little nativity set, our traditional Ellen Street hooks outside and my latest Pinterest project. 

I saw this idea of making a felt tree that you put on the wall and cut out felt ornaments and lights to add to and take off. It's a way for kids to decorate their own Christmas tree without breaking anything on the real one. It's a hit at our house and it was super cheap, super easy to make. 

Enjoy our pictures from this productive weekend and Happy Thanksgiving!

It's been a while.

Let me just start with saying how fast November is flying by. I can't believe I've been away from my blog for several weeks. And honestly, I don't have a very good reason. My only two excuses are nothing new happening here and being busy in general life. They seem to be two very different excuses, you'd think if I was busy I'd have lots to write about. 

It's about to get a whole lot busier around here with Thanksgiving being only a week and a half away. After that, we are in the hustle and bustle of winter and Christmas. 

Our recap from the last couple of weeks. 
          Sullivan had an ear infection at the end of October. 
          Mike has been busy with Newbo and an open house at Barn Happy. He launched some new products and his latest trip to Newbo on Saturday proved that people love his stuff! He has a great but exhausting day. I have been busy trying to get over a cold/bug that appeared last week. 
          I've been busy busy at work preparing for a big audit this week. Let's hope it goes well!

We did have a chance last week to rake up all the leaves in our backyard. I happened to snap a couple of photos of Sullivan "helping" and the mountain of leaves.