Merry Christmas!

I was going to send out a Christmas card this year, but my list of recipients kept getting longer and longer and longer so, I think we will save the cost of stamps and printing until we have a little peanut to share with the world. And no, that wasn't an announcement ; ) 

Here's our virtual greeting! 

& A Happy New Year! : )

Goodbye SC!

I really don't have anything exciting to say today...

...except for the fact that tonight we are hitting the road for NY!!!

Leaving this...

(picture courtesy of Jeremy Thomas)

...and coming to this!!!

(picture courtesy of Elizabeth Geiger)

I am not sure how long I will love the snow for, but I am beyond excited to be surrounded by family and friends!!! I hope you all enjoy this special time of year and are also able to be surrounded by the ones you love!

Craft Day!

The other day my good friend Mimi came over and we made some holiday crafts!

 

(We met each other when we both took the training to become substitute teachers and then we both ended up getting different jobs! I always say we went there just so we could meet each other because she is now a great friend!!!)

 

Intense snowflake making....

 

Painted....

 

....and then buttons!

 

Buttons make everything better ; )

 

Baby snowflakes!

 

& our finished flower pot snowmen...mine looks kind of angry LOL

 

: )

 

Wordless Wednesday

2014....

I have never been one to really make a New Year's Resolution, until I stumbled upon this both on Pinterest and Facebook, and I do believe that it is the Thomas Family New Year's Resolution for 2014. 

http://stuckathomemom.com/52-week-money-challenge/the-52-week-money-challenge-you-game/

What do you say?

Are you in?!

...a lot like Christmas!

Ok, so it's not looking anything like Christmas. And our 80 degree weather isn't really making it feel much like Christmas either. I mean, Christmas and air conditioning don't really mesh well together in my dictionary. Thankfully, in less than 2 weeks, it will both look and feel a lot more like Christmas when we get to be in NY! In the meantime, our apartment has some holiday spirit going on! : ) 

I did a little more decorating this year than I did last....

 

 
My homemade nativity from last year!

 

 

 

 

 

Our Charlie Brown tree from last year <3

 

(The Mistle-toe) : )

 

 

We don't really have the room for a real Christmas tree right now and with us going to be gone for 2 weeks a real one wouldn't really make it, but my creative juices were flowing one day, so this year we still have more than just our Charlie Brown tree. We can actually put presents under this one and with my pine scent melting away on the shelf, you wouldn't even know it wasn't real! : ) LOL

 

 

We got a box in the mail the other day from Jeremy's parents with a card inside saying Merry Christmas. For a second we thought they had forgotten we were coming there for Christmas and had sent us our presents! LOL But, his mom had sent us this wreath for our door - "just a little something to decorate our new home" : )

  Have you gotten into the Holiday spirit and decorated yet???

Festival of Lights!

 

Now that Thanksgiving is over (not that I was wishing it away), it is OFFICIALLY okay for me to start celebrating Christmas : ) (Although I already have been for a couple months now) So, this past weekend we went and saw the Charleston Festival of Lights! We tried to go last year, but we waited until too close to Christmas, on a weekend, later in the evening, and got caught in like a 2 mile line, waiting. So, it didn't happen LOL

Here are some pictures! My phone did a better job than my camera, but still not the greatest quality...

(thought of you with this one, Mom)

(the woman who lived in a shoe....)

(Humpty Dumpty)

I think this one was my favorite : )

This one was really cool, too! They had all the animals lined up, 2 by 2...

 

 

(I thought of you with this one, Jonathan)

  

All of the planets and an alien...Jeremy, our science teacher, was very offended by this layout ; )

Lovebirds  teeter-tottering : )

 

 

 

 ....there was one that said "and to all a good night" but the cars going in the opposite direction blocked my picture : ) 

Yay Christmas-time!!!