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 :)