Christmas Dresses

Growing up I was always jealous of sisters and their matching dresses for Christmas therefore I had to make matching dresses for my girls. As mentioned in my previous post I didn't finish them until Christmas Eve so they got to wear them the Sunday after Christmas in stead of the Sunday before. Here are a few more pictures on them in their dresses.

Matching Christmas Jammies

We always get jammies for Christmas Eve and I was so happy to find matching sets for the girls. Jared, myself and the girls had a fun playing games with my parents. This may just become a new tradition going to Grandma and Grandpas in our PJs, drinking hot chocolate and playing games.

MaKenas Gingerbread House

This is the Gingerbread House Kena made at her class party.

Pictures with Santa

So I have done pictures with Santa every year for MaKena in her Christmas dress. I wasn't about to stop that tradition just because there was a 3 hour wait, yes 3 hours. Lesson learned don't wait to finish sewing your daughters Christmas dresses until Christmas Eve at 10:30 in the morning. Next year I will be starting their dresses in November. The dresses turned out great and so did the picture so it was all worth it. We even got a great smile from Kayli.

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O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree

I love decorating for Christmas each year and the Christmas tree is at the top of my list. This year I decided to do two trees. My pretty tree as I like to refer to it and a woodland tree. My "pretty tree" is the perfect combination of elegant and casual with a hint of character. This year I decided to go with traditional red, green, and gold. For this tree I went all out on the top with lots of stems in red and gold and two big red dragonflys that were used for decorations at my wedding. I have a large variety of ornaments( no more than 4 of each) this works great so you don't have to worry about having repeats next to each other. Once the ornaments are on I add in stems and ribbon to fill in where you can't put ornaments.




My woodland tree is a casual tree with very fun unique ornaments. I have done a tree with this theme in the past but this year I added the painted boards and I think they turned out great. There are five boards total and they say Santa, Believe, Joy, HO HO HO, and Noel. I found the boards on sale at a boutique and they were brown and said lemons, apples so I painted them a barn red and then stenciled on the words. I just love how this tree turned out, it has some really unique ornaments that I have collected through the years. Oh and go check out Tip Junkie she is having a Christmas Tree Contest.

Cookie Decorating

When I was a kid my mom would make tons of giant sugar cookies and let my brothers and I call the neighbor kids over to decorate them. We would all (probably 30 to 40 kids)go out on the back porch and cover them with frosting a sprinkles. She did this for about 5 years it was great and we all loved it. Anyways I have wanted to do this but time hasn't permitted so when my Mom said we were going to have FHE I said I would do the treats. The kids all enjoyed themselves and got a good sugar high.