Christmas Spirit

he thinks he must be in every picture i take.

his excuse was that he was trying to help me wrap. lol.

this is just the start of my wrapping. boy, do i really need to get my butt in gear.

Lately our house has been filled with rolls of wrapping paper, scissors, random pieces of tape that Duncan has stuck to the bottom of his feet, evergreens, sugar cookie scents, and more certainly... the Christmas spirit! I can not believe that Christmas is what, 15 days away? Oh boy... do I love this time of year! Later on in the week will begin my very favorite part about the preparation of Christmas and that is... holiday baking! Trace is making some peppermint patties and I will be making white chocolate covered pretzels! If I remember, I'll be sure to take some pictures and share the yummies! :)

Baby Brooks

On December 1st at 5:29AM, my best friend gave birth to a healthy 8 lb. 7.1 oz baby girl! Kendra was scheduled to be induced at 6:00AM but she obviously missed that by 31 mins. I tell everyone that she is a real woman because, what you typically don't hear much anymore, she delivered naturally. :) I am going to leave you with a couple shots I took on Sunday night. Please enjoy!

It's beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS

So Trace and I put our Christmas tree up last Firday and the other night Trace goes... "I can not believe there is a christmas tree sitting over there, time is going by so fast!!!!". It is sooo true. Anymore, I feel like I wake up, head to work, come home and eat dinner, then go to bed. Well, that's excluding all the errands, photo shoots, church, etc. going on inbetween. Anyhow, I wanted to share a little piece of our holiday so far. I apologize for the lack of pictures. :)

Is this normal?

Morning Madness

Ah! I woke up this morning with the urgency to put up all of my Christmas decor. I surely didn’t get too far because everything I took out of the box, Duncan was afraid of. The dog is 10 months old and over 100 lbs. and just about everything scares him. He tries to act all tough but honestly, he is a big baby. Trace chases him around with the tv tray every once in a while just to put him in his place. Although it sounds mean, it’s hilarious. So on with my morning… I ended up putting our stockings up and then realized that Duncan thinks they are toys hanging from the mantle that has made into a game of “put them up and I’ll pull them back down!”…. isn’t he the greatest. Haha. But on a side note, one of our cats, Star, jumped into the big box filled with all of our Christmas decorations and it scared Duncan so bad that he jumped on the couch (which is a HUGE no-no in our house!) and hid his head behind me until I got Star out of the box. You so had to be there, I laughed so hard. Oh… and another interesting thing that happened this morning…. ! So to get to our laundry room, you have to go out through the door in the kitchen and through the garage. Usually, I let Duncan come with me but this morning I just wasn’t in the mood to chase him around the garage. Well, if you shut Duncan out of the garage, he’ll jump on the door in hope to push it open… oh boy was that a bad idea. I started a load of laundry and when I went to open the door… IT WAS LOCKED! I never thought it would happen but he actually jumped on the door to push it open, but instead… turned the lock and locked me out. Here I am in my pj’s, hair on the top of my head, and to top it all off… Trace’s SIZE 14 slippers. Seriously, like I am going to go ask the neighbors to borrow their phone so I can call someone to break into my house. haha. I had no idea what I was going to do. But… I got lucky enough that Duncan jumped up onto the door… again… and he must have hit the lock because I was in the midst of turning the knob and the door came open. I couldn’t be mad at him because of his intelligence. lol. I think that was his way of telling me to never lock him out of the garage again. And that’s the end of my morning madness! :)