Christmas time, Thanksgiving, cutie cute and a little surprise

You guessed it. I'm all alone while Justin's on another scout camp out. So...I'm catching up on the ol' blog that I haven't updated in about a month.

I've decorated for Christmas, even though we won't be here for the two weeks surrounding Christmas.
Christmas lights make me happy. I like to look at them. It's not Christmas without them and a Christmas tree. Here's what I've got so far.

 

Oh, I also made that tree skirt last year. It's white crushed velvet and satin. We've got matching stockings. :) Looks a little funky in this picture though. I've skipped putting the blown glass ornaments on this year. Sethy boy is too dangerous. They do look wonderful sparkling through the lights, though. He won't pull anything off as long as there isn't anything around that he can pull up on to stand.

Here's our little winter wonderland. 2000 lights. I really want to put some giant lollipops or peppermints on stakes in the middle of the yard or something. I love the idea of a gingerbread house, with lots of sweets all over with some frosting or snow to top it off. Not sure how I would do that though. Maybe next year when we'll be here long enough to make it worth all the work. The icicle lights are my favorite. Every 5th bulb twinkles. The rest of the lights stay on. Way hard to find lights like that and pretty pricey to boot. I can only buy a little at a time. Next year I'll add another strand along with some large candy :)

I'm also working on my homemade Christmas presents. I think I jumped in a little too deep with that one. Way too many projects to finish. I've got all of them started and half finished. Now if I can just catch up on the housework I can get this stuff done before Christmas. I'll post pictures of my lovely little creations as I finish them. You'll be amazed. Honestly, you better be.

This was a few weeks ago. Meagan took Seth outside to swing. He really loves her. She's so good with him. He liked swinging too.

  

 

We went to San Antonio for Thanksgiving. One of the Paul's family friend's daughter (wow, mouthful) got married the day before Thanksgiving. They are going to hate their anniversary. I can relate. Ours is December 27. You do whatcha gotta do when you get married as students in between semesters and school holidays.

All-in-all, great food and fun dancing. Meagan was struttin' her stuff all night. She has some seriously funny dance moves. If you need convincing, watch Megadance on my facebook.

Grandma and Seth. Who doesn't love that?

He's so funny lately. Every time there is music playing or a rythm (like me stirring chocolate milk in a glass, tapping my fingernails on the counter, etc.) he starts wiggling his middle and dancing.

He also starting clapping and waving Thanksgiving week. I love to watch babies clap their chubby little uncoordinated hands. It's one of my favorite things.

Okay, one more cute thing. He's been saying "kidta, kidta, kidta..." a lot. I couldn't figure out why he made that particular sound until I was tickling him one day. "tickle, tickle, tickle..." So now every time he says kidta kidta I must tickle him. He asked for it.


This video is from Thanksgiving of Seth and Wagner, Jordan and Alyssa's little dog. Right before I shot this Wagner was following Seth around and licking his face. Seth was getting upset because he couldn't escape. It was so funny and we were all laughing so hard. They are the same size.

This next little dish is something I worked on for several weeks after I got photoshop. I was looking online at tutorials on how to use all the tools in the program and came across a tut on how to make your own Greek statue image. Justin and I have a little joke about Greek statues which I won't go into at this juncture. But it inspired me to create this. Michelangelo's "David". It's been edited to protect the innocent.

Isn't that awesome!? You can see the original online if you'd like. I'm not including it here because it's a nudey so viewer discretion is advised. Just Google Michelangelo's David. I thought about doing one with my head on a goddess statue but all of those are seriously nudey. I got tired of looking at naked statues as I decided on a picture I could use. Thank heaven for the giant fig leaf. What is it with the antiquity's fascination with naked people?