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My latest project involves some kitchen chairs our kitchen island and black paint.

I've had these chairs for 12+ years now and still love them, just thought they could use some updating, as well as my kitchen island.  So I got out the black paint

I have the wainscot painted black and ready to be installed and I painted the front of the cabinet today... see what happens on snow days!  I love...

Every year my sister hosts a cookie exchange for a bunch of her friends and with December being the busiest month it adds to the fun and craziness of the month!  Besides for the cookies of which you bring a dozen for each participant, there is also optional ornament exchange and 5 $1 gifts. People can be pretty creative with these!

every year there is a new theme with the table setting, you get...

Well I've been sure to take notes and take pictures and last night I ordered my pictures up to the 9th so I can start building my album.  
So much to do in the month of December and that's what I love about it.  I feel so blessed to have all the family and friends to share all these occasions with!  From the New York City bus trip to the mother daughter Gingerbread house party, a bowling Christmas...

It's been a while, in fact I haven't been there since 2006 when I went on a trip with girlfriends.  But this time was special.  It was the first time Zach, my sister, her two boys and my mother in law got to see NYC.  And what better time to go than to see it around the holidays!  Okay, except for the fact that it seems everyone has that same idea!

We took a 3 hour bus tour this time which...

He would be 23 today...
12/7/87 - 2/23/93
It's hard to believe that we only had him in our lives for 5 years.  How much he changed our lives in those five years, and continues to change it today. The shirt he's wearing  he loved it was the slogan for his school, buzzing through the 90's.  He wore that same smile most days of the week and brought so much joy into our lives.  We learned so...

Day 2
December 2nd
Started my day with a 5 mile run, then after getting ready it was off to the mall to meet Chels and do some shopping for Zachary.  From there we had lunch at Panera then we both headed to work.  Once I picked up Zach from school we did MORE shopping.  I guess it’s a sign of the time of year…

 

Day one journaling and picture:
December 1st
A cool snowy day, just enough snow to coat the grass.  I spent my day working around the house, lunch with Deb at House of Hunan and shopping at Target.   Today was my day to paint, pay it forward and get a peppermint mocha!  Yum!

 

Are you following along? A way to document the month of December so you appreciate all the little things that make this crazy month so.... crazy!
We put our albums together while at the Bertram Inn and I'm ready to get started!
Besides for Trish's class kit that sold out super fast, there is also Shimelle's class which is the prompts you get and you build your own album.  The great thing about...

What a wonderful time we had with family and lots of yummy food!
We started our morning doing the turkey trot... running 5 miles to start your day keeps the guilt away during your Thanksgiving meal!  While we were gone Joel and Zach stayed home and got the turkey's in the oven.

It was a perfect day to spend indoors with family!

they make us all smile and laugh!

and we sure do have some...

Chelsea and I ran the turkey trot on Thanksgiving morning and it was awesome!  We had been watching the weather all week as they were calling for rain.  We figured it was an hour or so in the rain and we were up for the challenge!
We got downtown and parked and found our way to the Galleria starting point.  After standing in line for the bathroom we had just minutes before the race started.  We...