Joy

(Please excuse the rambling, I reference my blog when I forget. :) )

She is just that...Joy! I love her so much. She is constantly doing something to make me smile. She is in such a learning stage and it amazes me how much a 2 year old can comprehend. I think she's going to be a smartie, but that's just her Mommy speaking! :)
Her speech still needs lots of translating for those who aren't around her much, but I understand. I'm in no hurry to move her along, either. Her thing now is to pretend dumb when she thinks she might be in trouble. LOL! I ask her what she's doing and she always says, "What, huh?" over and over.
She loves to sing and play the piano and many times ask me to sit and play with her. She knows how to pray for her meal and sings Jesus Love Is Bubblin' Over, Joy Down in My Heart, Deep & Wide, I'm So Happy, ABC's, and she's been singing along with many Christmas songs. She knows Jingle Bell Rock the best! HA HA!
If you do something, even just playing around, she will remember it days down the road and repeat it. Keeps me on my toes to not teach her anything wrong!
She is definitely equally Daddy and Mommy's girl. This morning she woke up early scared and she wanted nothing to do with me. Apparently, she needed Daddy to protect her from a dream (which, btw, he got me shot in my dream b/c he decided to go chasing druggies...oh, the pregnancy dreams).
She is a social bug and loves to go to church. She plays shy with a lot of the grown ups, but loves the kids. She is always asking if someone is coming over.
God has blessed me with a special girl and I'm so glad He picked me to be her Mommy! 

Christmas Pictures

10!

Please excuse the having to stand on your head to watch this. I'm so used to my other camera automatically being converted on my computer that I recorded it up and down. However, I'm not figuring out how to rotate a video.

 

She can do this by herself, but the camera was throwing her off!

There's those sweater vases again. I was glad I made some white ones last time b/c they work well with Christmas. 

 

I use battery operated candles because ideally I'd rather not burn the house down.

I know you can't see her face and that'll drive some of you bananas, but I still thought it was cute!

Christmas Spots

We have been working on a huge-o, major, big mess making, crazy wonderful project in this dear old house!!! However, it is taking forever to get done and stuff put back in place. (We had to move the current stuff into room #1 and #2, then when we got done take said stuff to room #3 and then move #1's stuff into #2. Confused yet?!?) It didn't help that I couldn't move for a week because my back went crazy on me!!! Talk about driving a prego lady nuts!!! Anyhoo, until I get energy or have nothing else to do everything put up, you'll just have to have a sneak peek. 

DIY Christmas Picks

I have been itching to go to Hobby Lobby to get some new Christmas picks to use as filler. I've started to go a couple of times and talked myself out of it because I didn't feel it was necessary to spend the money. I'm very slowly getting my decor up and today when I needed those fillers, I decided I'd just make my own. Granted they're not Hobby Lobby quality...pretty much if you'd blow on them they'd mess up, but they work! 

I had some greenery that I got at HL for 80% off after Christmas one year, some berries, and "bird's nest" (as my sister called it. 

Spread out the branches like so:

Poke around the filler:

 And, voila!