GOOD LUCK!
Happy New Year, I'll be taking another 4 day weekend so expect great crafting pictures on Monday for the reveal of my secret crafty presents that I gave to my sisters, I'm finally going to go see them tomorrow and they'll be able to open them up! YAY! I'm so excited. :)
I cursed my husband for buying this darn Guitar Hero thing for the Wii, I figured the girls would be so glued to it that they forgot they had to clean and do homework and stuff more constructive. they haven't been so bad with it, a few times and they get bored if they don't do well, so they pretty much know when to get off. :) Nevaeh said she's "Rocking Out" and she does, she hits the buttons and dances at the same time and when it gets too crazy she lets dad do all the work and she just head bangs. :) 
Here's the hubby, telling me and Mikayla that we AREN"T better than him on this game.. I SOOOOO proved him wrong lastnight, he's angry.. the end....
My favorite little man with Santa, he unlike the girls took a liking to Santa right away! :) The girls had to walk around for a while and think about it before going to talk to Santa but I think he pulled them in with candy canes. :)
Cute! Nevaeh is finally understanding the whole Santa stuff so it's cute and adorable and she can't wait to leave him cookies and leave food for the reindeer! Neither can I! :)
Yes it's a carrot and they are inside the carrot... There is a new addition to the Botanical Gardens and everything is HUGE, it's like you're itty bitty in a large garden, it's cute! We got to go inside a pumpkin and see huge carrots like this! 
Still a few more to go over there on the right but Mikayla set it up so we had everything right on hand for each little reindeer, I did the antlers and the ears and Mikayla did the eyes and noses. :)
I got the cheap little sandwich bags at the dollar store and filled them not quite a 1/2 cup of oatmeal, some trail mix and shaved carrots. The tag says, Sprinkle on the lawn at night, The moon will make it sparkle bright, As Santa's reindeer fly and roam, This will guide them to your home!
We made 21 bags, for her class and her teacher's kids! I used the papers from a little scrap pad, folded them in half and used double sided tape to adhere them to the baggies. I think they are adorable and I hope all her friends like them!
Here they are again, snuggling. Stinkers!
The three muskateers! We took them to the parade of lights show that they hold at the Albuquerque Botanical Gardens every year. I got some great photos of them with the light sculptures.
For it being so cold they sure were happy campers!
I love this one! 
They loved this turtle!
These are some pictures I took in October that I finally uploaded and I love them because the grass is so green, and more importantly my girls are so beautiful!
This (below) was my drive in to work Tuesday, this is Albuquerque, it never snows, or at least not this much! Roads were terrible, we got let off work early and they cancelled school. :) YAY
Another view of the snow below with a touch of the mountains from afar. :)
And last but not least can you believe these! My sister Lena is making candy for the family for Christmas and I can't wait to eat it! These are dark chocolate gingerbread candies with jelly inside.. YUMMMM
Below are some more chocolate goodies that she colored and created herself, I can't wait to eat them! :)
Below are the hollies of course, they look so yummy! :)
And that's all for now, I have some major work to do!
Above are the frosted (with cream cheese frosting) the regular sized cookies, they were gooooody.. Were.. as in already eaten! haha. :)
More cookies? Oh no, these two are making ornaments! This was the first time making ornaments and they came out really good, I will be adding the ribbon and putting them on the tree tonight. The girls had so much fun! Here they are making all the shapes.
This is the ornaments all cut out... Then I added the hole with a straw.
Geesh, she's an ARRRRteest! Oh yeah don't mind that yellow fallopian tube shaped ornament. It's the dumbest cookie cutter shape I've ever seen! It's supposed to be 2 candy canes crossed, here, it's upside down but it's funny looking both ways... 
Here's Mikayla again, still painting away! And carefully I might add... :)
These were the final product, you can click on the pictures to make them bigger.. This is something that we will have to definately do again, the girls had fun, I made the dough in advance which didn't take long, they were all together easy and fun... :)
I can't wait to see how they look on the tree! :) That's why it's the card that has it all! Get it? haha :) 
So the base is Cosmo Cricket papers from the Be Good Paper crafting kit again, the tag is from the Buck Naked ornaments set which I covered in the same Be Good paper. The red is the back of that paper BTW :)
After I covered the tag with paper, I roughed up the edges with some sand paper and then went over the entire front of it with cross sanding to make this effect. I cut the "For You" from the Cricut, George and Basic Shapes cartridge and roughed and inked the edges of that too. See that green twine/ribbon/stuff? That's from Becky, I thought it was going to be loose but it has a wire inside so it was perfect for this to stay in place! :)
The black snowflakes I stamped on the paper are from the Snowflakes stamps I got from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, they looked great on here! I also got a little square of the red paper and stamped another snowflake on it and added a pop up dot to it because I thought the card was missing something, so I added something random :) I love it. :)
White card base... now that I look at it though I should have made it creamish color.
The "h" is from the Be Good paper crafting kit, I just roughed up the edges and dabbed black ink along the edges.
The ornament is from the Buck Naked Ornaments of Cosmo Cricket, I covered it with some Be Good papers and did the same roughing and inking of the edges. I also added more pop up dots to the center line of the ornament.
I think this is a better view :)
The ornament has a tie or some straw stuff I got at the $1 section at Hobby Lobby. The Happy Holidays sentiment I cut from one of Christmas Cards I received last year and I just inked it up with a sponge to make it match. Tell me what you think! :)
Here they are in all their glory! They sent me cases as well and they were labeled! How's that for organization! I love them!
These are toooo cute, I love those little birds and all the sayings. It's a little hard to read them but I tried and you can go back and check here for all the info on the ones that you see here and more.
These snowflakes are beautiful and I used them lastnight already, so I'll be posting that card tomorrow.
These are the cute little Funny Farm stamps, They were mainly for my daughters but I will be "borrowing" them :)
Doodle flowers! I love these too, I like allt he swirl action going on with them. CUTE!
All my holiday sayings, they are going to be used well and often this weekend as I attempt to finish my cards! :)
Chocoholic, my mom loved these, we are both addicted to chocolate so it suits us fine :) Aren't these allll amazing!?! I love them and they have officially got me addicted to stamping as well as everything else I do! :)
This is our tree! We finally put it up two days ago, we were slacking, but I'm glad it's up and done and all the presents are wrapped too! :) yay! It's a bit blurry but it's still cute!:)
I made this from all the wonderful stuff I've won lately. All the papers and ribbon is from the goodies I won from Becky. CUTE!
This stocking was from the winning over at Cosmo Cricket, I covered it in the blue paper from Becky, smoothed out the edges with some sandpaper. To the top I added some glittery paint and topped it with some matte finished glitters. I used the snowflake stamp to get a few snowflaked, I added some dimension dots to them so they stood out and where they overlapped off the edge of the stocking is where I cut them so they looked like a pattern on the stocking. :) 