You Capture.....Outside

I just found this today. It is a new weekly challenge over at I should be folding laundry.  This looked so fun I had to do it.  The challenge this week is to strap on your winter gear ( if you are in the north like me) and go out and simply snap some pictures no matter what your skill level. I would just like to add because I am a wuss that it is like 10 degrees outside very cold for Ohio this time of the year.

  We threw these apples that had gotten too old out so the animals can have them. I really thought the red looked cool against the snow.

 True sign winter is here ice hanging from the roof.

 Front of the house after our first "big" snow of the year. This is our first winter here.

View from the back yard you can see the neighbors frozen pond through the trees.

  Hope everyone enjoyed the photos look forward to receiving comments.

          

It that time again....... Hodgepodge!

Happy Holidays everyone if you would like to join the Hodgepodge Click here


1. What does it mean to have the 'holiday spirit'?


                Holiday Spirit is never letting go of that child like  excitement of the holidays. I don't let the shopping and everything else stress me. 

         

2. What sits atop your tree (s)? Why?

                        Right now there is a star on two trees and a sent hat on one. No reason really.

3. When was the last time you gave yourself a pat on the back?

           LAST NIGHT!!!!!  I cleaned out and reorganized the whole dang kitchen and it took allllllll day but    I               got  it done and it looks great and I even did a little baking while I was in there. I made white chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies and buckeye. But alas I am not super woman the buckeyes have been in the fridge all night and need to be dipped still.

4. Which of your senses is most sensitive this time of year?

                              Ummm, I guess I would say eyesight taking in all the beauty of the season. I love going out driving and looking at the Christmas lights. I also love the inside of my house this year. There is Christmas no matter where you look here. I may do a tour of the house later this week.

                               

5. What do you have too much of in your kitchen?

         

                         Well you can definitely never have too much coffee but I have a brand new thing of coffee and that makes me very happy.  I have THREE sets of salad tongs unless I plan on having a salad party sometime soon I think that I may have too many.

6. What do you do for meals on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? Big meal? Breakfast tradition? Open the cookie tins and have at it?

            Christmas eve. we usually have a big meal and then cinnamon rolls on Christmas morning, I think this year I may do homemade rolls. Then the rest of Christmas day it is just whatever.

7. What is the best thing about winter?

                   Big ol' snowstorms, when I am at home and don't have to go anywhere I LOVE THEM! It's both cozy and exciting at the same time.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

                              It is so cold outside the trash cans are like 2 ft. from my back door and i don't even want to go that far outside.

Shutter Love Tuesday....

 

While I am not great at photography I am entering this  I am entering this week because I do have two very cute kids :)

 Here my baby girl was about six months old and learned to smile when you say cheese.

Sunday Scavenger Hunt

This week I am going to be joining ramblings and photo's scavenger hunt.

  The list for the hunt is as follows:

               1. Winter Colors

               2. Holiday/ Winter Icon

               3. A tree

               4.Quiet

               5. Your Favorite Color 

Winter Colors

       My pretty lamp.

Holiday/ Winter Icon

     A little bit of Texas Christmas in Ohio.

A Tree

  My pretty little Christmas tree.

Quiet

   Everything is always so peaceful outside after a big snow.


                                              Color

  If I had to pick one color it would be burgundy although I don't think I really have a favorite, No idea why it's sideways.

Hodgepodge!

1. Have you ever been on a real sleigh ride? How about the warm weather version - a carriage ride? 

              I think that when I was little I have been on a carriage ride but I am really not sure. I know I haven't                   been on a sleigh ride although I would love to.

2. What's your policy on 'chain mail'...you know, the emails you receive that are often some sort of poem/blessing/good wish that ask you to send it on to 10 or 12 friends? Do you delete without opening, read and trash, read and trash and then worry you won't be blessed/lucky/protected? Do you delete the sender from your contacts or just go ahead and send the love onward?

                 If it is funny I will usually pass it on, I do usually read them all though.

3. Who is your favorite character in any of the Christmas movies and why?

              The Grinch he symbolizes the start of Christmas for me I have watched him every year since I was a child.

4. Share a favorite quote.

             I took the road less traveled and that made all the difference.

                     

5. What's your favorite holiday scent?

               Things baking in the over all the way! If I had to pick one of the candle sencts it would have to be apple cin.

6. Does the Christmas season stress you out? In what way?

          Not at all to me every moment of it is exciting of course I also don't go to the store when there are ten billion people there.

                 

7. What's the best thing about your life right now?

                  My son being another year older for Christmas with a grasp of  how things work, I love being Santa so much it keeps me up all night on Christmas eve. 

8. Insert your own random thought here.

                             That wood floors suck! They are cold and I have to wear my slippers all dang day.

My first Christmas tree..........

 I am 26 years old and have two children and because of living situations over the past 4 years I have never gotten to have my own tree! Now I do!!!! It is a little tree but to me it might as well be 50 feet tall because I know that on Christmas morning my kids are going to wake up in their own beds and come out and see all the goodies santa has left them right in their living room.  I put up the tree tonight and tomorrow morning my son is going to get to hang ornaments on the tree for the first time in his life. This year I am so very very blessed, it is all around me. I sleep on the couch  so that I am not to far from my kids and right at my feet is the Christmas tree. I get to wake up each and every morning  and see my tree first thing what a blessing that truly is. I am so into Christmas this year. I feel like I have found Christmas for the first time in many years and it is better than any present to just have the feelings of the season with me!!!!!!! On top of that people, IT IS SNOWING! This year has been so rocky in so many ways but I know now that the new year that will be coming soon and with it so many possibilities and new blessings. 2011 will be a good year I just have a feeling..............

Daybook Dec. 7th

FOR TODAY
Outside my window... Even more snowing so many people are complaining about. I think it is a welcome sight although the temp could be a tiny bit warmer.

I am thinking... About what I getting my kids for Christmas seeing as i have not done my shopping yet:)

I am thankful for... Hot Coffee and cold Iced tea


From the learning rooms... Revisited the letter H today and righting my son's name. He did really well.


From the kitchen...mac and cheese and fish sticks


I am wearing... fleece shirt with a cowboy snowman on it that says " Let it snow, y'all"


I am going... Out to bring the trash cans up to the house.

I am hoping...That is stays warm in the house tonight, it is so cold outside and the electric baseboard heat just does not seem to be keeping up.

I am hearing... Children playing in their room that should be sleeping.


Around the house... I am doing some cleaning to get ready to put up the tree.

A few plans for the rest of the week: Put up the Christmas tree and get some deep cleaning done.

Here is picture for thought I am sharing...(add your picture here) Sorry no pic today.