Holiday is over time to get this house back in order.

 Oh my goodness, I feel like I am shoveling in a snowstorm....... My house is a mess point blank! Maybe I am sitting here writing this blog because I need to form a plan of attack, or just maybe  I am procrastinating. ME? Naw I would never do that hehehe. The washer and dryer are both going so I am doing something right. While on the other hand the dishes are over flowing the sink and my bath room well I am not even going to go there. I need to call my friend because I have not in awhile and well I think I am procrastinating on that too. I think I am having one of those sit on my butt and do nothing days but there is al ittle problem with that,  I am a germ a phobe  and that bathroom has got to be cleaned today lol I don't think that was the right spelling but ya get the point, right?  I need to get motivated here.  Ugh.


     Anyways I am off to get lost in the piles of crap I have to do today but I will leave you with  pictures of the holiday.

 Hurry everybody wake up Santa came!!!!!!

My daughters new baby doll. She LOVED it!

Sean was shocked at the BIG gift that mam-maw gave him.

Jessie's stocking was the only thing she opened herself.

I got my wish this year for a white Christmas. I loved it!

                Christmas Ham it was so so good.

Last Hodgepodge of 2010

            This is the last Hodepodge of 2010 .Thank  you Joyce for picking up right where the Random Dozen left off. If you would like to join in hop on over and see Joyce  at From This Side of the Pond, be sure to stop back to tomorrow and link up too.

1. Share your Christmas Eve traditions. 

 My kids are little so I don't really have all my traditions worked out yet but the game plan this year will be to have a big dinner of ham and mashed potatoes, then open our Christmas pj's and sit down and watch a Christmas movie with the kids. This year when they go to bed I have quiet a bit of assembly to do but I am so excited for them to wake up Christmas morning I doubt I will really get any sleep on Christmas eve which I think is becoming a tradition because I have done that since the Christmas my little boy was two I might get an hour or two of sleep but I a, usually way to wound up to sleep.

                 

2. What was the best book you read in 2010? (we're not going to include The Bible here)

                              The Bride of Peace by Cindy Woodsmall is the only book I read in 2010. I have just been to busy this year.

3. Do you have pets and if so do you allow them on the furniture?

                           No but my mom's dog come and sits on it does that count? I hope so because it drives me crazy lol.

4. What event from 2010 are you most thankful for?

                         That we all walked away from the car accident we were in, One person was injured and required a couple of surgeries but we all walked away with our lives and that is something to be very thankful for.

5. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before.

              

                  Put up my own Christmas tree. Every year circumstances have left us living with other people and all i really wanted for Christmas was to have my kids wake up to their own tree in their own living room!

                       

6. Brussel sprouts...friend or foe?

                                 Ick! I would rather not.

7. Who would you nominate for man/woman of the year?

                          I would nominate my best friend who in his life has overcame so many obstacles and somehow no matter what it takes pushes on and finds a way to keep going even when it seems like everything in the world is against him, sometimes it seems like he can't even take a breath before something slaps him in the face again but he shakes it off and keeps going. To meet this man he can put a smile on anyones face, he is truly amazing.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

                     Always smile and be nice to people you never know who's life you might change.

                                    

Macro Monday

This is my first time  doing Macro shots I had alot of fun playing around with it

 Hope ya'll enjoyed! You can do your own and link up to Lisa's Chaos.

Photo Hunt Sunday

This weeks list

-Winter

-B&W with selective coloring

-The wind

-Framed

-Remember when

Winter

     A little bit different but this  is what I do doing the winter. It is a nice warm place to be.

Black and White with Selective coloring     

My daughter and I in the kitchen back in October.First time playing with the Color in a Black and White.

The Wind

Freezes me to death but this is constantly going in our house.

Framed

My baby boy at age three. Not my picture they were taken at Walmart.

Remember When

The day my baby girl was born.

If you would like to play along with us hop on over to Ramblings and Photos.

This little light of mine

 I should have save this for Macro Monday but it came out so beautiful I want to share it now, by the way one of my first four Macro shots. I think I did pretty well for a newbie at this :)

Ok so now I am going admit yesterday morning I heard the words macro and had no idea what  in the heck that was so I looked it up and let me tell you if you have never done this in your random photo taking you have to try it is so fun to play with. Macro is close up photography. It is getting a close clear picture of your subject showing every detail of it.

 Ok and now I guess I will tell you how far behind in this game I am! I never heard of Bokeh before either. If you are like me this is what Bokeh if. Burn it in your brain. Learn to use it because it will be everywhere, and is a little more challenging then Macro.

 Taken from wikipedia

                        In photography, bokeh (pronounced /boʊˈkeɪ/) is the blur,^[1][2] or the aesthetic quality of the blur,^[3][4][5] in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light."^[6] Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause somelens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting—"good" and "bad" bokeh, respectively.^[1] Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

      

Friday's Fave Five

#1 Coffee in the dark. 

                 I love it when I can sneak around the morning and be the only soul up in the house. I sit and watch Good Morning America, drink a couple pots  cups of coffee, maybe turn the computer. Or I might leave all distraction off and sit in silence for awhile, sometimes you just need time to here your own thoughts.

#2 Christmas Lights

            There is nothing to give ou Christmas spirit like your house being done up for Christmas everywhere you look. It doesn't matter if you have money or not this year. Put your tree up and if you have a couple extra strands of light string them over the doorway you will be surprised what cheer it can add.

#3 Baking 

             On the coldest day it can warm you up, and there is nothing like the smell of your house while doing it. Baking for many winters has been my hobby, I love it and there is nothing you can come up with in that area that I can't throw together.

#4 Christmas Music.

                               My radio in the kitchen has been set to it driving some people crazy. I don't just wait for Christmas to come I surround myself with it all of December.

#5 Daughter laying on my chest.

                 She is almost two and I know that time will soon run out on her wanting to cuddle with mommy. She got sick the other day and for hours wanted to lay on me and I was flooded with memories. I wanted to cry thinking about her being a newborn and how I could never get that time back. New babies are alot  to care for but you are never closer to your child than during that time. I love watching them learn and grow, develop there own personalities  but the greatest comfort in life is when they don't feel good and only want mommy, nothing else will do and I will gladly he the one they want and hold them all I can while they are still little.

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Friday fill ins

1. What in the world _is wrong with the world____.

2. __I am ___ well fed. unfortunately for my expanding belly.

3. Go _lol oh you don't want to know what I am thinking lmao____.

4. ____I _ sent _buckeyes to friends this week____.

5. I keep __on truckin___.

6. __to be ___ or not.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _sleep____, tomorrow my plans include __a nap___ and Sunday, I want to __sleep___! Hey I'm a mom can you blame me.


 Ok I sat here laughing at the computer like a crazy person lmao!

AND/OR

19. IDOAWCJLTOIUTK: I'm dreaming of a White Christmas
20. CROAOFJFNAYN: Cheatmuts roasting on an open fire Jack frost nipping at your nose
21. IBTLALLC its beginning to look alot like Christmas: 
22. OLTOBHSWSTL: oh little town of Bethlehem how soon we see the light
23. SBRAYLITLSIG: no clue :(
24. IBHFC: I'll be home for Christmas
25. WWYAMCWWYAMC: we wish you a merry christmas we wish you a merry christmas
26. IHTBOCD: I heard the bells on Christmas day
27. FTSIAJHS frosty the snowman is a jolly happy soul