2012

Happy 2012 everyone! I am going to go on record and say that I would like this year to go ahead and be a little better than last year. That is all.

(PS: I definitely had some big blessings in 2011. But a lot of it I could have done without. Now, that is all.)

I had big blogging plans the past few days, but then reality set in. We got home from Texas on Saturday night, and ever since then we’ve been digging ourselves out from under a massive pile of stuff. It looks a little like this (except way worse):


But true to my OCD tendencies, we have gone into major organization mode. There are things afoot. Like this:


I promise to get a few pictures of our Christmas ninja enjoying his second Christmas up very soon. You heard me right. Ninja.

The Good Stuff

Is that a chocolate milk mustache I see?
And a toddler frantically signing "more"?

That's what I thought.
Someone has been hanging out with his Mimi...

Merry and Bright

Ready for Christmas

Favorite Things

Last Saturday my sister-in-law Amy hosted a Favorite Things party, and it was so much fun! Everyone picked one favorite thing under $6 and brought 5 of them to share. We wrote our name on 5 slips of paper, and then each person picked 5 slips from the bowl. After we shared about why our favorite thing was, well, our favorite thing, we got to give them away to the 5 people whose names we drew. Are you still with me??

I chose to take something I use almost every day: Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day Basil Countertop Spray. It smells SO good, and it does a great job cleaning my counters. Add in a cute dish towel, and you definitely have one of my favorite things!


Just in case you are curious, I came home with a cute cookie scoop, a Tervis tumbler, truffles, white chocolate peanut butter (yum!), and some fun lip gloss. Amy told me she got the idea on Pinterest, and it looks like this may have been the party she was talking about. Check it out!

Source: angbrimwil.blogspot.com via Gerry on Pinterest