Davison Christmas

We enjoyed Christmas Day with the Davison side of the family.

This is my dear family.

Here is my father-in-law with all of his grandkids and with his sons.

Finally a picture of FIL and SILs.

It was fun to join the Davison side on Christmas Day.

out with the old, in with the new

I am so blessed to be able to get new carpet in my great room.

as you can see the old stuff really needed replacing, it was damaged, ugly and not wearing well.

So here is the new carpet!!!!

I love it, it has some nice tones to keep it interesting and hiding the evidence of teens and dogs!

Wrigley approves, he loves the new carpet!

cookie cheater

Each Christmas season I am invited to a cookie exchange that a sweet friend from our old neighborhood in Swisher puts on. The exchange is always a lot of fun. She requests each person bring 7 dozen cookies to exchange. That is a lot of cookies! This year, I will admit, I cheated. I used a mix for the base of the thumb drop cookie and the results were fantastic. I held pretty good willpower and only sampled one cookie. I am all set now for the exchange. I plan to freeze the cookies that come home so we will have platters for the Christmas gatherings we are invited to.

still on my needles.................

I am still working on the heather hoodie. I am really enjoying the cables. I am using note cards

that hold one line of each row of the cable pattern. It really helps for keeping track of where I am with the many interruptions I tend to have.

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

The most wonderful time of the year! It took us a few weekends but the house is finally decorated. The smell of fresh cut pine Christmas tree and cookies is in the air. We started getting fresh trees a few years ago after having an artificial for many years. Now we have several small artificial and one fresh tree each year.

I painted my old ice skates, laced them with ribbon and tied them to my old sled. I like the way it turned out and it is fun to use items from my childhood to decorate with.

I also got craft by painting sticks and pine cones. The inspiration is a combination from an idea my sweet Des Moines sister gave me and an idea that I saw at my beauty saloon. I like the way it turned out for my fireplace hearth.

Thanksgiving

Well after thinking I had time to do a holiday theme in addition to music in my last post, I found out that I didn't even have time to blog. Sorry I have been away for so long.

We had a great Thanksgiving. I had fun putting together this pumpkin pie using the Williams Sonoma pie cut outs.

We have so much to be Thankful for!