These are a few of my favorite things..

                                          Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Bright copper

                                          kettles and warm woolen mittens.  I do like those thing

                                          but since I don't have them, these are a few of of my

                                          favorite things (which I have.)

Santa punch bowl and cups.  I bought this years ago at an antique store.

Aqua ball jars filled with little glittery ornaments.

My newest collection...Lori Mitchell figures.  They are a goofy looking bunch, but I have a fond attraction to them.. They really are adorable.

My 5 dollar after Christmas sale last year.  Who doesn't love this?

These little red boots were my husbands when he was a wee tot.  LOVE THEM.

My favorite Nativity.

Just need to add this above the Nativity.

My favorite Christmas books.  Mortimer's Christmas Manger...The cutest book.
Just  a sample of my favs.

Thanksgiving

PLAIN & SIMPLE.

My Thanksgiving  was filled with the people I love.

7.2 reasons to count my blessings

Some of my greatest blessings.  Thank you Lord for each one. I am abundantly blessed.

Fall fun with a funny four year old.

.Take a chilly, fall morning, add a pretty fall tree, one papa, one gramma and one silly boy.  Give his daddy a camera and silliness happens.

Right before the silliness broke out.......

He thought this was HiLARious

He thought this was so funny to cover my eyes.

Silly, fun, boy.  Makes me laugh.
I am thankful for him and
his silliness.



Guess who's coming to dinner?

 Thanksgiving is just a week away. These folks are waiting.

The Pilgrims

The Natives.
The rest of the family arrives soon.
I have so many blessings and reasons to give thanks.
Looking forward to spending a day giving thanks.

Who needs to sleep anyway?

Since I am writing this post at 2:49 a.m. I am trying to think of quiet things that I can do. I am making a list in my head of what I would like to accomplish in November and since most of them require some sort of noisy equipment such as a sewing machine, a mixer or  clanging pots and pans I won't be doing them early in the morning.  I really would be able to accomplish a lot if I could work at these ridiculously early hours.  So, my list of quiet things include. Reading, but I need to have a light on for that, which would wake up my sleeping husband and kind of defeat the whole quiet thing.  As I type this, I have my laptop under the blankets so that the light doesn't disturb him, but then the clicking of the keyboard is kind of loud in this quiet room, so I guess blogging EARLY in the a.m. is NOT a quiet thing,  I will just go back go making a mental list in my head of what I would like to accomplish in November and do them all during the day, and hopefully drift back off into dreamland. I wonder what I can accomplish in my dreams.   

 

The Halloween Happenings

Pictures from our church Ashe Bash. The carnival we have at church. 

Sparkly pumpkins

Balloon arch made my Josh and Eric with the help of their students.

My trunk for the trunk or treaters.

This Flintstone car was so cute. Fred and Wilma were there also.

Cute photo op.

This trunk was so cool, complete with smoke machine and pirate.

Granny and Gramps were there.  A.K.A. My son and daughter in law. (No comments please)

Invasion of some bees.

Not killers , but honey bees.

 The steath bomber made an appearance.

 Josh made his  costume...

Daddy, bomber and mommy.

He was very stealth

Sorry about the blurriness of this picture, but stealths move very quick.