Angels we have heard on High!!

I'm not doing too well on this blogging everyday thing, am I?? With class parties and baking this last week, it's been sorta crazy! The saddest part for me is that I haven't been able to read other peoples blogs, which is my favorite thing to do!! So today, I thought I would combine some ornaments and decor to play a little bit of catch up! Anyone who knows me, knows my love for angels! When mom let us go pick out an ornament, I fell in love with this angel ornament, the clay type. Something about those clay ornaments, I love! They are so unique to me! So I have ended up with a bunch of these on my tree!
I found this cookie jar one year after Christmas, during the big sales! I thought I would get it ahead of time to give to someone for Christmas the following year, but of course when the next Christmas came around, I loved it too much. What's on it?? A clay Angel! I just wish I could change the Happy Holidays to Merry Christmas! That's all I have to say about that!My first Christmas as a Mama!! My mother-n-law gave this to me! I love it! The star that floats behind it says, "Angels are mommies with wings." With the way I took the picture you can't see the wings on the mommy, but they are there! I always think of how special that first Christmas with Caleb was, watching him open up his first set of Christmas gifts! So this holds a lot of memories for me! Thank you Lori!Another Angel ornament that I love!! I believe Beau and I were together for our second Christmas during our dating years. We were having our Christmas with his parents, and remember I'm just the girlfriend. So I felt extremely special when Lori pulled out gifts from under the tree from Beau's grandma Ruthie, and there was a gift for me!! Lil' ol' Me!! I don't know if she knew my love for angels, or she just happened to get it right, but this was definitely special to me. It still is!! I felt so loved! I just love the memories that can flash when you pull one item out of your Christmas boxes!

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care!

These stockings are so special to me! Every year I'm so excited to put them out, and actually I make sure I'm the one that gets to put them out! I love looking at them! Beau's mama made each of these for us! So when Beau and I were married I got my very own cross-stitched stocking! Definitely made me feel like part of the family! Lori has a talent! She knows how much I love angels, so she did good! This picture doesn't quite do them justice! They are so detailed! So, this is my favorite decor for today!

Hey Santa!

So one of my favorite things to do this time of year is get the new picture with Santa!! This was going to be one of my favorites to blog about one day this week, so here is my frame that holds the "Santa" picture! I love it! Didn't love the price I paid though! Love those prices in the mall to smile with Santa! This picture is from last year!

Are you ready to see this years??

Here it is...Christmas picture with Santa 2008!!

I love these to adorable kiddos! My little model boy Caleb and Carleigh, so upset, but doesn't she look pretty!?

I'm dreaming of a White Christmas, really, I am!

These ornaments are from my dear friend Jessica! I can't remember for sure which Christmas it was from, but I'm pretty sure it was in our stage where we thought it was cool to where a white t-shirt and jeans with a flannel shirt tied around out waist, along with socks and birkenstocks. Haha...those we're the days! Did you make these Jess? You were always so creative! I love them, they bring me back to my youthful days when all we listened to was Jesus Freak by DC Talk!! Bet you didn't know that two of my favorite ornaments were from you Miss Jess!

Oh Santa, you were good to me!

I mentioned that I would also be including Christmas decorations along with posting my favorite ornaments. This is my Velveteen Rabbit! I saw it and wanted it so bad for Christmas when I was maybe...8 or 9. That same Christmas I wanted the Super Nintendo. Santa had left them both for me on Christmas Day! I love this Velveteen Rabbit! Santa could have probably gotten away with leaving only this for me! I get excited all over again when I pull it out of many Christmas boxes! It was neat this year to see Carleigh's excitement. She plays with it at times, but those times are very limited! Look how good it looks still and I've had it for awhile!!

Congratulations Bryan & Heather!!

I have been away from blogging, but I have been busy! One of my closest friends went in on Monday to be induced to have her little girl! So on Dec. 8 little Miss Finlee Avis arrived! 7lbs 12 oz. and 19 1/2 inches long!! She is just beautiful!! I have been ready to have my baby just because of feeling uncomfortable, but after meeting Finlee I'm extremely eager to meet my own now! Plus then I can hold my baby all I want! For some reason Heather and her family just won't let her go!! HAHA!! I will show you pictures and you will see why! I'm so proud of Heather!! This is her first baby, so you're usually a little nervous, but she did great!! Oh... and good job Bryan because without you I guess there would be no beautiful little girl. I suppose you did help some! LOL So I will stop talking now and show some pictures!!

Modeling the hospital gown prior to Finlee's arrival!

The proud parents!!The generation picture! Heather's mom and memaw!The Beautiful Finlee!! Welcome little girl!!

My goldfish Daphne!

Is this so me or what?? I am the one that bought this for myself! I saw it at the store one day and fell in love with this prissy goldfish! I don't know if you can tell but she's got ruby red glittery lips! I love the Christmas tree right smack on her head! She should have cut back on the eyeliner though! Oh, and yes, I have named her! Daphne is one of my favorites!

Awe...memories from ornaments!

This is an ornament from my mom! She gave it to us obviously the year Caleb was born. It was really neat to have our first "family" ornament. When I see this though I think of our first Christmas together as a family. Most of you know that Beau and I didn't live together until we had married, (Caleb was 18mths.) so when Caleb was almost 2 we had our first Christmas with the 3 of us together. That was a special Christmas for me!

Happy Birthday Mama!

Today my mom is one year older! I'm so happy to have such a wonderful, loving mother! She is definitely a best friend and I don't know what I would ever do without her! I look up to her and hope that I will have her wisdom one day! Thank you for all you do in my life mama! I love you!!

Jessica's copy cat! :)

Okay...I know I don't get to update my blog daily, so this won't be an everyday thing for me. I have started at least checking the blog everyday because I want to see what Jessica and her mom list as their special ornament for that day. So...I want to participate as well! The only thing different I will be doing is also including some of my favorite decorations that are around the house! For my very first ornament I want to share with you will be...
It reads: Together Forever Chelsey & Beau! After we had been together just a little over a year while dating, it was our 2nd Christmas and I gave this to him! I love looking at it and remembering that I knew for sure he was the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with! Haha, whether he liked it or not I said together forever!! This is my all time favorite one to hang each year! Well, now I feel like I need to include a picture of us! I love this man God blessed me with!!