O Christmas Tree...

This year's tree process was hard... I hate real tree's... hate them! But David insisted on us going and finding the perfect one in the wilderness and chopping it down to bring it home and decorate it- not my idea of a Christmas tree! However, he caught me at a weak moment and I said fine as long as you help (meaning do most of the work) we can have any kind of tree you want. But when I want something done, I want it done NOW not in a few hours hunting around in the mountains in the cold so we agreed on a real tree from the local department store :). This was a tough decision... we went to Lowe's, Wal-mart (who knew they didn't sell real trees?), finally to Fred Meyer and found the perfect one!! But then back to Lowe's to get the perfect stand :) Needless to say all our Christmas decorations and tree is up before the first of December so we can enjoy it all month long!

We re-decorated the thing about 5 times before it was "perfect" in both our opinions. Who knew I would marry a man as picky as myself... he still doesn't have the living room furniture "quite right" so I will probably come home tonight to a complete different look.

we were both losing our patience... so we opt to take a fun photo shot

This is Dave playing a Christmas Tree :)

The final product!

It's no wonder...

I am the best aunt in the whole wide world!!

* The girls didn't want dinner while I was babysitting them... so we had ice cream instead!! I love being an auntie :)

Sing Star...

We found a new game at our house- Sing Star! Love it :) So much fun and my parents enjoyed it just as much if not more than us! It's basically karoke but you have to get the words and pitch right. Turns out I am not tone deaf, my parents should have been some famous duo, and as for Jeral and Dave... they should stick to their day jobs!!

The big 3-0!!

My favorite sister turned 30 last week-end!! So we helped her celebrate at Garcia's and then for a night out on the town! We had so much fun- it's weird to have a 30 year old sister :) I kept remindering her life is now officially one-third of the way over and she can no longer say "word" :) Now all she needs is to find a nice, patient, caring, handsome, mature, man- any ideas?!?!

Love ya sis! Glad you let us party harty with you!!

Four wheel fun!!

Dave and Jeral playing on our toy!

David and I went up to Kilgore area with his friend elk hunting... mostly we went to break in our four wheeler but it was fun and this is the only picture that was taken me... mid yawn!

bomb cookies...

These amazing cookies deserve their very own blog. Nestle Toll House filled with Caramel... yum! They are on sale at Fred Meyer for $2 and have a $1 off coupon right on them meaning a buck and you have yourself 12 amazing cookies that satisfies your sweet tooth in one bite!! Delish.

Shout out to GC...

This blog is a bit of a bragging session! We raised $1393.00 for the Children's Miracle Network in just one month in our salon only!! My girls definitely deserved to win this we worked our tails off to be #1- awesome! I heart all the girls I work with so much and love our drama free zone. I hear a lot of people say working with girls must be hard but I admire the ability the girls in our salon has to leave their problems at the door and come into make money and cut hair- Love it! So... great job girls!! Our prize: Jeans every Saturday in November (which is huge for us) and boss man buys us lunch on the last Saturday... priceless!!

and it's over...

After all the excitement and days of planning, one night and Halloween is gone yet again. We had such a fun night with our fam. I forgot to take a picture but we got pumpkin pizza's from Papa Murphy's :) They were delish.

Salt, Cinnamon, and Pepper

Our adorable nieces!

Daniel's whole fam dressed up! I love it!

Pumpkin treats...

I love cooking snacks and especially treats on cold days, there is some weird comfort feeling when the oven is going and it is cold outside. Could be the smell, might be it helps warm up the house. So this last week I have also been known as Betty Homemaker :)

Pumpkin muffins I got from my friend Val's blog- they are amazing!

My awesome pumpkin chocolate chip cookies I have altered the recipe to make them my own

And of course the famous sugar cookies are always a huge hit!