What a wonderful Christmas...

I know I left you all hanging but I was just so excited about my major Christmas gift and I will get to that later but, this was taken on Christmas Eve and it's one of my favorite pictures.

Oh this just makes me melt.

I'm also really loving my trim painting white it's looks so crisp and clean.

Doesn't she look adorable, I figured I would get some wear out of this shirt dress before it wouldn't fit anymore and I think it looks great.

This was C's "Santa" gift and even though it took several hours to put together it looks great and she loved it. In fact she has been playing with it everyday since Christmas and we have yet to move it into her room yet.

She also was a little surprised when she realized that Santa had come and ate the cookies she left out for him.

She just kept saying "Santa ate my cookies, did he like them?"

No for my fantastic Christmas gift from my loving hubby.

Oh yeah one of the best cameras ever! He kept it a secret and everything until the day before Christmas Eve when he just wanted me to open it. I'm glad I did since I got some great pictures during Christmas Eve. I'm so thankful for him, I never would have bought this for myself and never dreamed in a million years that he would get such an elaborate gift.

I love that man.

Hope you all had a terrific Christmas, I think 2011 is going to be a great with lots of new things happening.

How good was your day?

Mine was fantastic!

And for right now that is all I have to say.

Wont be posting until after Christmas so hoping all you have wonderful holiday with friends and family.

L-

Tory

So Pleased...

So this year for Christmas my sister and I decided instead of exchanging gifts with each other we would get gifts for our girls. She is due with a baby girl in March. Of course that is a whole other topic in itself. Anyway, knowing my sister she has very high standards for everything and this is no exception for her daughter.

Since she already has the big ticket items already planned out and gets tons of clothes from our Mom I wanted to get her something special and different but with same high quality standards that she loves.

So after scavenging etsy and other blogs I found this great etsy shop with the cutest knit booties I have ever seen.

However, anytime you order something online you can never be fully sure what you will be receiving.

I'm so pleased with the product that I received from Pleasantly Plump.

I picked out the booties from her shop and she hand knit the specific size I wanted to get our first niece.

She did such a great job and with such personalization I felt so happy with the packaging and how it was shipped.

Including the awesome hand written note thanking me for my business. Meghan from Pleasantly Plump will definitely be getting more business from me in the future.

The packaging was to die for.

How cute are these going to be on a sweet baby doll!

The quality was beyond my expectations and I know my sister will be so happy with them too.

Aren't the adorable bows on the toes so cute?

Okay enough of the gaga over the baby booties, but I just had to share how cute they are with all you.

And the only reason why I put them up on here is because no one I know reads this blog( which is done on purpose,that's a whole other post) so I felt confident posting my nieces Christmas gift on here.

So if you are needing a cute, inexpensive, personal and different baby gift visit Pleasantly Plump on etsy.



Just not up for it

Sorry I have been a little m.i.a but the above picture kind of reflects how I have been feeling lately, emotionally.

On Sunday the husband and I had a bit of an argument slash discussion about ttc baby #2. We have had a pretty good cycle this month, but we have been at this for so long for the second time and even though we haven't gotten a negative yet I don't feel like this is it for us either.

So Sunday I had just had enough I just started crying and becoming emotionally upset, and no there was no way it could be to pregnancy to soon.

Anyway, I basically blurted out "I think I'm done." I'm pretty sure it put my husband in a huge state of shock but I just had this overwhelming feeling like God has blessed us with such a fantastic child. C is so smart, beautiful, loving, energetic and completely the apple of our eye why not just enjoy the happiness and blessing God gave us? My husband basically said " I know you want more children, I know I want more children, so it will happen when it happens."

I couldn't believe he just said that to me, knowing how I feel about that comment and ttc, it just makes me angry.

I'm sure he might have been angry, actually I know he was angry because he got up and left the room. My darling husband and I don't fight very often, we more bicker about silly things like taking out the trash and reminding him to brush his teeth type of bickering, so I of course burst into a mess of tears and started to really start thinking about what just came out of my mouth.

I think I might have decided that this will be a better decision for me. That doesn't mean it's the best decision for my husband or our only daughter. One of my biggest fears was not being able to give C someone to lean on after we are gone,  permanent best friend. I don't know, even typing that out seems stupid.

I love those two more than myself and everything on earth but what will help me be happy so that I can be a supportive wife and a great mother.

I need to do a lot more thinking about this and figure out what needs to happen and when I need to draw the line to stop ttc and be happy with the life I have. Which is a great life.

So I have a lot of thinking to do and a lot more discussing with my husband.

However this girl always makes me smile and look forward to another day.

How can she not look at the darling girl.

She is such a big girl and I love everything about her.

Also I saw this on a blog I love to check in on and for the life of me can't remember who's it was so sorry for no source, but I'm thinking I might try to recreate these festive Christmas balls, that have sheets of Christmas stories and holiday songs.

I'm thinking they will look pretty awesome hanging from my mantel.

Such a cute idea.