It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Today was our first snow day of the school year. I was more hoping for a 2 hour delay I guess, but I'm definitely not one to complain about not working. So... Miss Addy and I took full advantage of our day with no plans!



I actually got a lot of things accomplished today that I've been wanting to do. Don't ya love it when that happens?



I've been reading a lot of blogs about decorating lately. For a while I kind of thought to myself, that I can't throw things together like the "experts" can. Which, I still can't, but I can try... right?



I'm really proud of myself because I've been wanting to put together a picture collage for our living room to go in the place of a painting I'm not crazy about anymore.







Here it is all laid out on our guest bed for Nick to hang up! Check that off my to do list. Yes!



So... back to these decorating blogs. (You may notice that this post is random, but it's for mostly me and my fam when I turn the blog into a book one of these days. Do not feel obligated to read! lol) I've seen that these blogs do "tours of homes." I LOVE looking at all the pics, so gorgeous! So... I figured, if these people can put ornaments in a jar and call it a decoration, I can too, right?



Another thing Addy and I did today was add, switch up, and take pics of some Christmas decorations. So here are some pics if you're interested and if I haven't lost ya already! :)






This is the first year we've put a tree in our bedroom and I love it! The pic doesn't really do it justice, but it looks beautiful at night shining through our upstairs window.







Adalynn's tree complete with tea pot ornaments.








This is not Christmas-y, but I have been so wanting to add pictures to this hallway storage shelf basket thing for months and finally did today!









The stockings were hung on the stairwell with care

Downstairs tree. We started the all silver theme several years ago and it stuck.

I added candy canes today for a little color if you can see them.

Love this candy dish. My grandma made it!

Picked this up at Hobby Lobby today for Addy's bedroom. So sweet.

Merry Christmas everyone!

ugly sweaters

Nick and I got all decked out in some ugly Christmas sweaters (they are Christmas even though you can't really tell in this pic) and headed to an ugly sweater party at Brittney's Saturday night. My grandparents came to play with Addy for a couple of hours.



Here we are! The sad part is, this is the best family photo we've taken in a while with our camera. Too bad we are dressed so ridiculously! lol

It was a great party! We weren't able to stay for too long. I wanted to get home so my grandparents weren't out too late in case all that rain started freezing. Good times though!

these boots are made for walkin'

Thought this was too cute!

Nick, Adalynn, and I were sitting in the living room the other day. Nick and I were talking and Adalynn was playing. We then see Little Miss Adalynn walking up wearing mommy's boots! She puts on our shoes a lot, but we haven't seen her in something quite so complicated to put on and walk in. Hilarious!



There's the boot girl!








I said that she reminded me of Puss and Boots. :)

work of art

Adalynn has been very interested in crayons and pads of paper lately. She is so funny walking around here with a crayon in one hand and a little notebook in the other. Future journalist one day? :)

She stays pretty content sitting in her high chair coloring for a few minutes here and there.

There's Reporter Adams

Cheesin'

Trying to see how many crayons she can hold at one time!

There's her masterpiece!

Christmas Music

Oh, how I am a fan of Christmas music! We have had so much fun listening and dancing to Christmas music around here lately! I thought I'd share one of my fav songs. Please don't ask me how this band that is playing got its name. lol. I do think Sarah McLachlan has an absolutely beautiful voice though!

Anyway, thought I would spread some cheer if I could. I just love the lyrics to this song (It's always been a fav of mine ever since I was very little! :)

Enjoy the season!!!

It's a jammie kind of day!

Poor Little Miss Addy has had a hard time staying well over the past few weeks. I usually like to focus on the positive. Sorry if the blog has been a little too "Debbie Downer" for ya lately! lol :)

It seems that she has been fighting one thing after another. Right now, it is a nasty stomach virus. On Monday, she threw up probably 15-20 times over the course of 5 1/2 hours. We were dressed and ready to go to the ER, but held off. I was really worried about her becoming dehydrated because she was not keeping any liquid down. My mom (who I probably called 5 times during the course of all of this) assured me that she just needed to get it all out of her system. Not sure how someone so small had that much in her to get rid of. Poor baby. :(

I stayed home from work Tuesday and took her to the doctor in the morning. While there, she said that her hydration was decent at the time, but if we did not see another wet diaper within the next few hours, it was time for IV fluids. Luckily, we only had one vomiting episode yesterday, and she did start drinking water.

She perked up after her bath last night and started playing more and more.

It has been nice snuggling with her on the couch with blankies the past couple of days. This doesn't happen a whole lot when she's feeling up to par. Someone must have decided she likes blankies during this whole thing (she usually kicks them off and wants nothing to do with them).




Here's our gal. I guess she thinks blankies go on your head. :)





So silly. :)





Snoozing. zzzzz

After working this morning, I picked Addy up from my Grandma's. She had a good day (no getting sick!), but was so ready for her nap. She slept some in bed and then woke up. A few minutes later... here she is zonked out next to me on the couch.

Same jammies from the night before. I know I love me some jammies... especially when I'm not feeling well.

pictures

Here are our Christmas pictures! These are all the ones we took. Not all of them are keepers, but I thought some turned out pretty darn cute!

Click the link if you're interested. :)

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Hope it works... I was having a little trouble with it earlier.