Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Our Christmas Day

This is how we spent our Christmas day.
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your families.

Livy all ready for Christmas morning church.

Opening gifts Christmas morning.  Daddy got mama a KitchenAid. Mommy was very excited :)

My Burden family Christmas morning at church.

We got to spend Christmas with cousin Elianna this year.  Isn't she precious?
Livy and Juju all tuckered out after opening presents.



I can't believe Christmas has already come and gone.  Ready for a new year.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Christmas Candy

Last week, Livy and I made lots of goodies for some special people.
The first one was from Pinterest, of course;)

                                                Cowgirl Christmas Cookies





                                                It was a messy little project, but we had fun.



This morning we delivered them to some of our local businesses in town. We got some exciting news from a friend as we delivered her goodies:) The trip was well worth it just to hear the news.
We are enjoying this week of Christmas fun. It will all end too soon, so we're savoring each day.





Enjoy your week, friends!!!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Starting New Traditions

Saturday we woke up and headed to Daylight Donuts. A maple bar sure started my day right;)




We went and visited grandma and grandpa and grandma got me this Paula Deen cookbook. She's a sweetheart. I love me some Paula Deen.




We then set out to find a Christmas tree. Derick asked me if it'd be okay to start a new tradition and cut a tree down every year for our bedroom. They used to do that as a family growing up and he wanted to experience it with Olivia. I was thinking a small tree....




It is kinda big...





See, it almost knocked Livy and me off the 4-wheeler




I let Livy and her cousins paint some ornaments for the tree




We strung popcorn and berries. We did the the tacky garland and tinsel. We have the huge colored lights. It's a sight to see...




But, it's our favorite tree! Go figure;)
Livy enjoyed the garland.




Making and starting new traditions. Love it.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Christmas Cookie Cousins

Today we invited Tatum and Titus over to decorate Christmas cookies. We had lots of fun. Lots of icing and sprinkles;)
















Enjoying the holidays. It's coming so fast!

Thursday, December 8, 2011

One of those days

Today was one of those days where my patience was thin. I've been in a lot of pain with my back and it's very frustrating. Derick wanted me to cook dinner and make a pecan pie. (Some of his co-workers came hunting after work, so he wanted them to eat dinner too).

Anyways, I cleaned all day and mopped my floors in the afternoon. In the mean time, Livy finds a FULL Febreeze bottle and squirts away the entire can. Oy.

My house smells so fresh and so clean....thanks Livy.
Then, as I'm cooking dinner I hear a crash and an UH-OH from the guest bathroom. Livy went outside and filled her sand pale full of sand. She decided she needed water in the pale too. She dropped the pale full of wet, sandy mud all in my bathroom floor(that I just mopped)! I got onto her for bringing it into our house. She loses it....Livy has a very, very, very tender heart so she gets very upset when I get onto her.

Later, we get the men fed and I do the dishes. Derick takes Livy to the grocery store with him, because Derick informed me that a guy wanted 2 pecan pies by tomorrow from his work. It's 8pm when I find out this information. It's now 11:37pm and my house is clean(with the smell of Febreeze looming in our house), my pecan pies are finished, and my soft bed was awaiting me.

As I'm walking to our bedroom, I peek in Livy's bedroom. She is sleeping peacefully and I just stared at her. I put my hands on her little face and I just began praying. I began thanking the Lord for this CRAZY day. In the midst of it all, it was a wonderful day and I shouldn't complain.

How could I complain with a face like this staring at me every day??




Monday, December 5, 2011

Christmas Letter to Santa

Dear Santa,
I want a green hula hoop, pink baby doll, play dough, a princess tent, and a pink shovel.
Love,
Livy
(I've been extra nice this year.)





Friday, November 18, 2011

Bargain-Running Races-Christmas week

I've taken an interest in couponing. It started in June. I.CAN'T.STOP.  It's a fun little challenge each week.  Clipping them, scouring the internet, and matching up with the sales paper.  We get the paper in the mail every Tuesday and that's when my fun begins.  I figured this week would be a good sale,(Thanksgiving week) so when I checked my mailbox Tuesday morning, I was shocked to NOT see my sales paper there. I kinda panicked. Seriously? I panicked. I even went to our local post office asking if they had any.  They didn't receive any that day:( Low and behold, Wednesday morning, a paper made it's way to my mailbox. I may have done a happy dance and made up a couponing happy song... Ridic..I know. 

As I was browsing through the ads, I realized this was a VERY good sale.  I opened my coupon binder up and started matching it with the paper. ( I may have made up another song because I had so many good coupons for this ad). And if it doesn't get bad enough, I raced to Homeland(30 minutes away from my home), Wednesday night after church.   I loaded up and made my biggest haul yet. The cashier even clapped for me and said I did great.

Yes, she clapped, and I loved it :)


Tulsa's Route 66 marathon is this Sunday. Gonna give it a whirl...sure hope I don't hurl :(
Launi and I attended the Christmas Gathering at Tulsa BattleCreek's church last night. We had a good time and got some pretty cute ideas for Christmas.
We have a busy weekend ahead of us. Looking forward to meeting some goals and eating my coupon food:)