Merry Christmas!!

I hope everyone has had a very Merry Christmas! We sure did! It was nice to have the whole family here and enjoy each others company. This post will have a lot of pictures... I hope you don't mind.

On the 23rd, we went to Williamsburg. Just the girls. It was fun to do a little shopping (mainly window shopping) and have some girl time.

Christmas Eve, everyone came over our house for dinner.

Ronnie's large (sneaky) gift to me....

Christmas morning at my parents!

Ronnie's sneaky gift to me.

A little football.

Christmas dinner...yum!

And can you believe it snowed on Christmas! Crazy. I don't think it ever snowed on Christmas here before!!

Merry Christmas!

Hangin' with the Fam

Cory and Chelsea are here visiting for Christmas. Tonight we're just relaxing at my parent's house. Cory and my dad are playing Wii during half time for the Boise State/Utah game....

It's nice to have the whole Paxton family together again! 

Have a Merry Christmas!

A Little Time to Post about Holiday Decor

Today I went to work and then it snowed. Then I drove 10mph all the way home at noon. I shouldn't complain because now I can get some things done around the house!

Our Winter Wonderland

(I won't say I'm sad that it's already starting to melt.)

Our Christmas Tree

The wreath I made...

Making this wreath is super easy.

You need: Wire, wire cutters, ornaments of your choice and a plain wreath. If you can find plastic ornaments that you like this may save you from future disasters. I used glass. I also used different sized ornaments and some shiny and some matte.

Take ornaments and wire them to the wreath in no particular pattern (at least that's the way I did it). Tada...Enjoy.

See easy.

Price: under $20! (Way better than $80!!)

Snowflakes

I like the fake, sparkly snowflakes on my tree....

but I'm not really up for the real ones! 

I'm sure it will be melted by morning...(and why I chose to take a picture of my recycle bin of all things, I don't know..)

Happy Weekend!

Disasters of the Week

First it was my hand towel...I just got it from Pottery Barn about a month ago.

Remember our Guest Bathroom....
Well that hand towel now has a huge bleached out spot. How it happened, I have no idea! We don't really use that bathroom!!! Ugh. I called Pottery Barn and they are sold out until September 2011...figures....

Next, I saw this wreath that I loved but at the price of $89 was a bit much for me. SO...my mom and I made one ourselves and frankly it was beautiful! :) I had to hang it on our glass door with a command hook. I followed the directions for the hook and waited an hour to hang my less than 3 pound wreath. About 3 minutes after I hung it...We hear something that doesn't sound good. We open the front door to find my beautiful wreath fallen and and half the balls were broken...I almost shed a tear! Well I'm definitely fixing this one. (I'll show you after!)

But the good thing is I only broke one ornament while decorating the tree....

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Thanksgiving and ate lots of food! We had a very relaxing Thanksgiving with my parents this year.

Dad carving the turkey.

Ronnie and my mom with our Turkey pumpkin.

The yummy food! 

 The only picture of Ronnie and me that was halfway decent....

We have a lot to be grateful for and are very blessed.

Now we can turn on the Christmas music :)

Bathroom Reno

The guest bath is the room that has changed the most so far in our home fix up. Check here for more before pics.

And here is proof that I did do some of the dirty work!



 Now, once again, it's not totally finished. I still have a few touch ups to do and also need to add a couple decor items but it is pretty much done.

Our beautiful tile floor! :)

What we did: Took out vinyl floor (3 layers) and put in new tile floor, took down wallpaper, put up bead board, new trim and baseboard, made the frame for the mirror, new light fixture, new towel hooks and other hardware, new shower curtain and of course the green paint.

I really think it looks a lot prettier in real life (even Ronnie said so!) but these pics will have to do. What do you think?

Halloween at Our House

Just wanted to show you what Halloween was like here.....

ooo...spooky :)

Friday Night Pizza and Pumpkins

 I make this homemade pizza that is super easy. It tastes good and is really cheap... I make the crust with this recipe. I just use what leftovers we have..left over spaghetti sauce, cheddar cheese, pepperoni (on Ronnie's half) and green peppers from the garden. It's different every time. Yum...but I wish we had olives...

 Then we carved our pumpkin and watched Nightmare before Christmas...good times.

Can't carve a pumpkin without roasting the seeds!

What did you do on Friday date night?

Race Day

For Ronnie's birthday (back in June), I got him a gift to drive a Nascar racecar on the Richmond Raceway. The day finally came and it was an exciting one. The weather was perfect and Ronnie couldn't wait to get behing the wheel! I even got to ride in a truck around the track once. I was convinced we were going to tip over and we were only going 80! I can't imagine driving a car at higher speeds!

Ronnie has a need for speed so this was a perfect outlet. I'm pretty sure he had a blast.

 

A clip....

After the race we met up with good friends for a yummy lunch.

Then we stopped by Gander Mountain for a little gift card shopping and headed home...in time for the Oklahoma game. Ronnie's perfect day :)

A Little Nature

Ronnie and I took a break from house and yard work today and took a hike at NorthWest River Park. Nature does a lot for the soul.

Crossing my fingers for a new camera for Christmas!

Front "Yard"

I don't know if you can call our front yard an actual "yard" but it is what it is.

This is the front the day we moved in.

We've made quite a few changes since then.

On Labor Day, my mom came over for a couple hours and helped me tear out the bushes that were there and paint a line where I would make my beds. I didn't mind the actual bushes that were out front but in the winter there was NOTHING there. It looked sad.

We bought a rocker bench to enjoy our little porch. The weather has been perfect lately!

I hope to borrow my dad's power washer in the spring....that will help the dirty porch and walkway.

I also killed the millions of weeds and planted some new grass seeds. They're starting to grow!! I'll be planting some pansies soon too.

Well that's our tiny front yard. :)