Daily December #4

The beginning of our Nativity for the year.  I haven't found the Creche yet but it will turn up.  Josh bought be the first piece about 3 years ago.  Notice my pregnant Mary! Growing up, we could never put baby Jesus in the Nativity until Christmas Day. My Willow Tree Nativity set (which I adore) comes with a Mary holding the baby Jesus.  That absolutely will not due so she is hiding behind a basket on the entertainment center.  This Mary is another Willow Tree statue. (This is actually the second one of these I have.  When I was pregnant with Boone, my mom bought one for me and painted her hair yellow.)  The Three Kings are still in their box as well.  They don't arrive until January 6th, bearing gifts of course.  Anyway, just wanted to share one of my newest favorite Christmas accessories.

Daily December #3

Nothing very Christmas like about this pic! Boone has been obsessed with every helmet in the garage for the past 4 days.  He really wants to be a Transformer so I think this is his variation.  

Daily December #2

I am trying to do a "Daily December" project this year.  Take a picture of our daily preparations for the holidays or whatever else we might be doing and post about it.  This is my new simple wall decor for the wall above my computer desk.  It is just holiday scrapbook paper on 12 x 12 canvas, with a little ribbon so it isn't totally boring.  The problem is the one on the right keeps falling off even with permanent adhesive.  I'd really love to do a 9 canvas wall or something Warhol like one year.  Wow, this wall really needs a little paint, doesn't it?

Happy December!

I really need to put up a new banner but with the new Mac I don't have access to my photoshop until I decide to cough up the $ for a new version.  Brody had two new words today that make Daddy so proud - "Football" and "Golf ball"  I guess technically that last one is two words but still pretty exciting for us. 

We started taking links off our Paper Advent Chain today.  I really want to make a cool calendar for those boys with activities and treats but I guess that is a project for another year.

Lions for Lambs

We actually went to the movies last night!  Josh vetoed Beowulf so we saw Lions for Lambs instead.  I can't believe all the negative reviews this thing has gotten, we liked it.  Yes, it was full of dialog, so not good for action junkies.  It is Robert Redford's movie so it follows his political agenda, which also happens to be ours so it worked for us in that respect too.  It actually really spoke to people like us, ready to complain constantly about this administration's policy, and the media hype,  but not really stepping forward to do anything about it.  Some guilt following the viewing of this movie, but still great!  Really tough for me to go watch Tom Cruise right now but he nailed this part, a sincerely insincere young GOP senator.  And I really like just about anything that  Michael Pena does too.  All in all, probably an 8.5/10.