house tour contined, continued, continued....

this is a light up candy cane that a certain young girl wanted one year from him...she's nver been a real picky kid, but the light up candy cane and the penguin were particularly hard items for santa to find, but he found them and thus started the tradition of telling mom and dad that it's okay, santa knows exactly what to get me...he always does!! I don't have to write it down because he knows!

I leave you with the most beautiful angel I have ever seen...not that I am prejudice against other angels..LOL

My gold trees...I really like them...I would have bought many more, but alas sprits were high, and funds were low...so I have to be happy with my trio of trees...

My snowman I got for 50 cents at the Dollar General after Christmas sale...I racked up!!


My most ornate santa I got from a great family friend....


My homemade snowman made with 4x4 psts and an old robe of my mom's I have got to do something about a nose for him....you can see my blue santa staring disapprovingly at his lack of a nose, but the snowman doesn't mind, he's just happy to be put out and loved from afar...

house tour continued, continued

this is where he is broken at...not too noticeable...

I made the moma and daddy with their baby with alex last year. She made the baby's face....

A Santa Convention...they were glad the little guy could join in...


and a snowman convention....the blue one's a real troublemaker....see the way he wouldn't look forward for the picture?(and umm...someone needs to take the price stickers off the bottom....)

house tour continued

the shelf above the tv...all decorated

our daughter's penguin....cleverly hiding our lamp, and our stockings hung on the window....I bought these for 30 cents a piece at the after christmas sale at the dollar general.

My Nativity I bought from the thrift store for 50 cents. Gavin just told me "Tats piture of Marey and Yosef....tats piture tv."

my most expensive nativity....this one was bought at the dollar tree for one dollar a figurine. 7.00--yep it's HIGH DOLLAR. And yep...my son broke my wiseman that is kneeling...poor guy no wonder he had to kneel!!

Welcome to the Nussey's!

We would go through the front door and I would show you the outside of my house, but I just don't feel like sharing that right now, so we will pretend that you teleported in like star trek and arrived on the otherside of my front door and have tunnelvision so you only see what I want you to see! Please feel free to grab a candy off our wreath...it was made to be eaten! I have a boy and girl snowpeople for my two kids..

this is our tree....I hope to make some homemade paper ornaments with the kids so this will look different here in a few days!


This is santa with my sunglasses on--Gavin thought it was funny!!


my nativities...and like the other houses in the tour, my son has broken one of my wisemen...

a little nostalgic

okay, so most people wouldn't look at this guy and think that he is something to get misty-eyed over, but he really reminds me of the drawings my grandpa used to draw just to tease us grandkids...he would draw people with these runny faucet noses--and I would get very upset. "That's not the way to draw people!" and I would erase the nose he just drew and drew my own. I would just think these people were soooooo ugly....oh man if I could just have one more chance to draw with Papaw!

It kinda made me sad and I have to express that I just wanted to sit with this guy and feel close to Papaw if only for a moment...
This is one of those things only I would get upset about--everyone else would just see a stinkin' faucet head guy...

yellow cake with chocolate icing

What's up with the doopey look on Gavin's face?? It could be the cake he's been sneaking! I was trying to have a heart to heart with his big sis about how she should be acting and she was crying and wailing and had to stand in the corner until I GOT tired of it(her attitude was thatBAD), and while we were talking Gavin decided to sneak into the kitchen and grab some cake since it was just sitting on the counter and hey with no one telling him no...there was no stopping him! It's almost like he couldn't resist since there was a barstool right there too....





the best way to eat cake? One pinch at a time!! mmm....and it's better if you can just barely put your fingers in between the saran wrap....that's the best part! of course you only want the pieces with frosting, a technique Gavin is demonstrating.

The fingers responsible for the deed....

fly me to the moon

I just love this picture. I took it in color and black and white, and I think it looks so tranquil...I would love to just sit and look at this moon, but too bad! I had a Girl Scout leaders meeting and had to go, but at least got this picture--I think it's my new wallpaper....

the hunt is on part 2

tommy is telling alex to stop whining...excuse the bathroom mess in the back...yep tommy needs to clean that UP!
Gavin is telling Alex about the "boogers" out in the woods....
The three of them after the "hunt."

the hunt is on!

these are pictures of my husband taking the kids "hunting" with his airgun(with no ammo) but man it sounded like it was shooting! The kids have been wanting to go hunting with their dad, so he was forced to take them after Gavin decided that he really wanted to go. Note the fantastic orange "cape" Gavin has on...he was so excited about that! As you can tell the road is right there, so there's no real hunting going on this day!


Notice how Gavin's orange cape flows with the wind!

"I'm not gettn' down MOMA!" is what I heard from Gavin's room, so I ran in his room and found him sitting on the shelf in his room which has been bolted to the wall--yep...that puppy would've fell down a few months ago! I ran to go to get my camera and he decided that he would, in fact get down....notice the cool spiderman undies...

How can a little boy go from sad to happy so quick?? Two words....HOT CHOCOLATE!! I was ready to give it up...he was soooo upset because I was not understanding what he needed! Then when I offered him some chocolatey goodness he was all smiles, and I am so glad because he is such a sweet guy I hate seeing him upset...

This is a picture of my husband modeling the new "RAMBO" bag I made for him to carry to the deerstand...it's actually recycled from a pair of pants he had bought that were way too small...I thought it came out great, maybe he will tell me how great it worked out at the deerstand.
The "I see something in the distance" look is better than the first day of school pose he had. He looked at me like I was crazy when I told him to model this for my blog...little does he know I am already there!