December 2 (+27 Days)

Jason proposed during the Lights of the Ozarks on the Fayetteville Square 13 years ago on December 2. Tradition normally finds us there every December 2 but this year, something came up and we didn't make it - namely, THE Science Fair Project. So, Jason surprised us and took us tonight...it was beautiful with a little snow still on the ground from Christmas.
First, pizza at Tiny Tim's.

Then lights and pictures.

I was going to skip the Razorback picture this year but Mackenzie pointed out that we "always" take one.

Here is an article about my friend Mitzi and her proposal on the Square.

It's Beginning to Look (and Feel) a lot like Christmas...

I usually like to get the tree up the Saturday after Thanksgiving (and take it down the Saturday after New Year's Day). I did put it up that day but didn't get it decorated for a few days. I really wanted to buy a new taller, slim, pre-lit tree but decided to wait until after Christmas and try to get one on sale.

The girls and I, along with some friends, went on the Winter Dreams Tour of Homes yesterday. This always gets me in the Christmas spirit and I got a lot of inspiration...now if only I could win the lottery...

Christmas 2008

Christmas Eve the girls each opened one gift. I think they've caught on to the fact it's always going to be pajamas!
Here they are with Eddie. He loves Christmas - probably because he always gets to open gifts too. So the other 364 days of the year, we can't put gift bags where he can get to them, he thinks they are his.

The girls woke us up Christmas morning about 6am. They had been up since about 5 and Mackenzie had already done her treatment - Peyton helped get her nebulizers ready. That warmed my heart on Christmas morning! The girls really didn't want too much for Christmas this year, here they are in the aftermath of opening gifts.

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas! Now, I'm off to try to put the rest of this 1000 piece puzzle together before next Christmas.

Christmas with Dad

We went to Fort Smith yesterday to have Christmas with Dad.

Eddie

We always give Eddie Christmas gifts in gift bags with treats at the bottom so he'll "open" them. I caught him trying to sneak a peak in the bags under the tree.

Two Little Elves

I love the Office Max thing with the dancing elves! I laugh every time someone sends a link of their family dancing around so...We "elfed" the girls!

Silver Dollar City

We went to Silver Dollar City on Saturday. It wasn't quite as warm as I believe they were predicting all week but we still had a great time. The girls rode one of the rides 14 or 15 times. I snapped this picture when we were at the giant tree waiting for the big lighting ceremony. It was dark so I can't believe the picture turned out. We also tried to get some shots of the girls on the little roller coaster but all we got were some good shots of the fog. When the girls got off the ride we were looking at the shots they sell and you could see the girls sitting on the ride with Jason and myself in the background looking at our camera...Jason thought we should have bought it to have a family picture.

Christmas Tree

We finally got the tree up last week (not the Saturday after Thanksgiving like I normally like to get all the holiday decorations up). We (I) went with green and brown (maybe more green and gold) decorations so I was able to leave a ton of ornaments up in the attic. This is also our cheap tree from Wal-Mart that we got last year since I was tired of the 9ft tree we'd had (it was too wide!).

We went to look at a house and I was distracted by their tree - she had black and white pictures framed on red and white scrapbook paper and I loved it so I wanted to copy it. I don't have nearly as many pictures but more ornaments and I used the green and brown paper and sepia toned photos.