Jackson Laughing

My sweet boy is ticklish. I love hearing him laugh, its the cutest thing ever!!

Jackson is 11 Weeks Old!

Jackson's 11 week photo shoot...

Family Christmas Picture

Last night we finally got around to taking our annual Family Christmas picture in front of our tree. Nothing like waiting til the last minute. LOL. Its always a chore getting my husband to take a picture. I always tell him he married the wrong girl then because I like to take pictures all the time. You'd think he'd be used to it by now. Hopefully Jackson doesn't take after his dad in that respect.

Everyone did well. Even the dogs were pretty good. Max (the youngest one, laying down in the front) gave us a little trouble, but after only a handful of takes, we got a pretty good picture (considering we were working with three dogs and a baby). Here's our 2011 Family Christmas picture along with a collage of each year prior since we got married in 2007.

I make an ornament out of these pictures each year. Someday I'll need another tree for all the picture ornaments I'll have. :-)

Oh, How Pinteresting Wednesdays

Here's what I'm loving on Pinterest this week...

 I really love this bag. I only wish I was able to make it myself.

This is such a cute way to keep your appointments straight.

 A genius idea for keeping your cords straight!! Attach a kitchen basket to the underside of your desk!

 I thought this was such a cute idea for an ornament to remember a trip you took earlier that year.

A great idea for the picture Christmas cards you get each year. Just punch a couple holes in them, add rings and make them into a little book to set out at Christmas time each year.

A super cute display board. I thought this would be cute to use for each season or month and just change it out with a different banner.

So these are just a few of the things I'm loving this week on Pinterest. What are you loving??

New Years Eve 2011

 Happy 2012 Everyone!!

Every year on New Years Eve, we have a dinner at church. Anyone that would like to, can decorate a table and we have a nice dinner together. This year the tables were beautiful as always. Its always so fun to see how each table is decorated.

My sister and I decorate a table together every year. Here's a picture of our table this year, plus pictures of all the other tables.

 Mine and my sister's table.

A close-up of our centerpiece.

Our Pastor's wife's table.

 

The table my mom decorated.

The table my mother-in-law decorated.

The kids table.

After the dinner at church, we went to some friends of ours house to ring in the new year. We played a game and watched the ball drop. It was a very fun night. :-) I hope you all had a great New Years Eve and have a wonderful 2012!!

Jackson is 10 Weeks Old!

Jackson hit double digits this week by turning 10 weeks old. I can't believe how big he is getting. He's talking and smiling a lot more now. On Christmas eve he even gave us a little LOL!!! :-) I had his little puppy dog rattle and was making it kiss his cheeks and he laughed out loud, only once, but it was the best Christmas gift of all! Of course, since then, I've been trying to get him to do it again, but have had no success. He also made my day this past Tuesday when I walked in the door after work and said hi to him and he gave me a big smile! It melted my heart. He goes back to the Dr. in 2 weeks, i'm sure he's gained quite a bit of weight and has grown much longer in length since his last appt. at 6 weeks. He's still eating 6 ozs. every 4 hours and that seems to be working pretty well. He's also sleeping very well through the night, only waking up once and sometimes not waking up until I get up for work at 6!! He's such a sweet and happy baby.

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree...

When Jake and I had our first married Christmas together, we decided to get a real Christmas tree. We wanted to actually go out to a farm and cut one down ourselves, so we found a farm online that was about an hour away from our house and we drove out there only to find that their trees were shorter than I am (5' 4"). Not exactly what we had in mind.

So we then decided to go to this cute little tree stand, right down the street from our house. This isn't your typical "parking lot" tree stand. They grow their own trees at a farm and even have some trees shipped all the way from Oregon and other parts of the country. Its run by a very sweet family that also have a pumpkin patch in the fall and sell flowers in the spring and summer. Needless to say, we've gone back there every year and we always get a Noble Fir. Its such a beautiful tree with a lovely scent.

I thought it would be fun, since this was our fifth Christmas together, to make a collage of all of our Christmas trees. I wanted to see the difference in them each year. You can tell the first year, we really underestimated the size tree we needed for our living room. Since that first year, we've always gotten a little bit bigger of a tree. Last year I even had to buy another strand of lights to go around it.

So I thought I would share our Christmas tree collage with you. Just something fun to look back on. :-)