thanksgiving weekend!
yes, i do know that it is december already, but i'm a little behind on my personal blogging :)
we had a great thanksgiving! it was our first year by ourselves! no other family!! we usually go somewhere for the holidays, but i had a couple portrait shoots, so we decided to stay home. it was actually kinda nice to just relax quietly!
we started out the day with a little turkey bowl where i dressed the kids and myself in all usc clothing in honor of the big game. needless to say, in the middle of all the asu fans, we were not very popular!
our thanksgiving table... very fancy :) we even used real plates!
after eating, we went with the kids to see the bee movie. they thought that was cool. everything we did, blake asked "do we do this on thanksgiving?" one of those things was gamecube. i guess he got tired!
i LOVE CHRISTMAS and have been dying to decorate, but owen made me wait until after we ate so that thanksgiving was kind of over. the kids each have their own tree in their rooms so that they can decorate them however they want. i do a different color theme each year - sometimes for a reason, sometimes just because i feel like certain colors. for each kid's first christmas, i decorated the tree in blue (for blake) and pink (for tyler). this year the kids used the ornaments from each of their first christmas' on their own trees! i thought it was really cute!
this year's color theme is silver and gold. its one of those "just feel like it" years for the theme.
i also broke my mom's heart and a three generation tradition by purchasing stockings instead of making them myself. i do feel bad, but after three years of glue-gunning felt at midnight on christmas eve to create a makeshift stocking, only to have it fall apart christmas morning (you would think once would be enough!), i felt it was time to break down and buy some!
(by the way, yes, my stockings are stuck in the cover of the piano because i have nowhere else to put them!)
this is as close as i get to decorating. i basically have my piano - the only flat surface in my living room to put some decorations on. i got all sorts of christmas-y stuff and put it in jars. i thought it turned out cute, but for all you out there who are really talented at decorating, you're probably cringing right now!
another exciting thing this year... our grandma gave us another piece of our nativity set! we now have the shepard and stable animals!! only a couple more pieces left and we'll have it all!
the day after thanksgiving, we did our gingerbread house. both last year and this year, grandma gave them the kit to make the houses, and they have been DYING to make it.
that about covers our weekend! we definitely missed our family, but managed to enjoy ourselves :)
we had a great thanksgiving! it was our first year by ourselves! no other family!! we usually go somewhere for the holidays, but i had a couple portrait shoots, so we decided to stay home. it was actually kinda nice to just relax quietly!
we started out the day with a little turkey bowl where i dressed the kids and myself in all usc clothing in honor of the big game. needless to say, in the middle of all the asu fans, we were not very popular!
our thanksgiving table... very fancy :) we even used real plates!
after eating, we went with the kids to see the bee movie. they thought that was cool. everything we did, blake asked "do we do this on thanksgiving?" one of those things was gamecube. i guess he got tired!
i LOVE CHRISTMAS and have been dying to decorate, but owen made me wait until after we ate so that thanksgiving was kind of over. the kids each have their own tree in their rooms so that they can decorate them however they want. i do a different color theme each year - sometimes for a reason, sometimes just because i feel like certain colors. for each kid's first christmas, i decorated the tree in blue (for blake) and pink (for tyler). this year the kids used the ornaments from each of their first christmas' on their own trees! i thought it was really cute!
this year's color theme is silver and gold. its one of those "just feel like it" years for the theme.
i also broke my mom's heart and a three generation tradition by purchasing stockings instead of making them myself. i do feel bad, but after three years of glue-gunning felt at midnight on christmas eve to create a makeshift stocking, only to have it fall apart christmas morning (you would think once would be enough!), i felt it was time to break down and buy some!
(by the way, yes, my stockings are stuck in the cover of the piano because i have nowhere else to put them!)
this is as close as i get to decorating. i basically have my piano - the only flat surface in my living room to put some decorations on. i got all sorts of christmas-y stuff and put it in jars. i thought it turned out cute, but for all you out there who are really talented at decorating, you're probably cringing right now!
another exciting thing this year... our grandma gave us another piece of our nativity set! we now have the shepard and stable animals!! only a couple more pieces left and we'll have it all!
the day after thanksgiving, we did our gingerbread house. both last year and this year, grandma gave them the kit to make the houses, and they have been DYING to make it.
that about covers our weekend! we definitely missed our family, but managed to enjoy ourselves :)
posted by Jamie Hammond Photography at
12/02/2007 12:41:00 PM
4 Comments:
Awww...you're such a good mom. I love all the holiday traditions. Great shot of Tyler decorating her pink tree--SO cute. And I think the top of the piano looks great!
Looks really great. Love it.
Looks really great. Love it.
Okay Tyler has grown up into such a beautiful little girl! I havent seen her forever! Well we saw you guys on Halloween, but just for a minute. and Blake of course is still my little boyfriend! The decorations are cute and your pictures are awesome! You have gotten so good!
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