Christmas around our place

we had an extra strand of lights so we added more.

my handmade wreath.  smells like Christmas trees everytime we go in and out of our apartment. 

felt finger puppet Nativity scene

Last year i made this little tree and the snow globes above.  Also the pom pom wreath.

Bits and Pieces

Around the apartment...

1. Life through the winter

2. Owl eyes

3. Jungle

4. Sweet Dreams

5. Granny : ziva giving Granny a kiss

6. Old candy canes

7. Ziva chewing on her bone and watching the kids play

8. Laundry day

9. chicken for dinner

10. Raincoat

11. Family (me, ian, josh, pet owl, mom and dad)

12. Sweet notes

13. Ziva in jail...and can't believe it

14. Wine

15. Pretty pin cushion

16. Kiwi

Bits and Pieces around the new apartment

Valdosta people...that commercial "Welcome to Mizells" comes to mind when i see this picture.



These are in our short hallway...thought i would make the eye sores a little bit prettier.
 Spray painted some frames.
 I will add more artwork/pictures/something to the wall.



Statue of David having tea



This is a self portrait i had to do in the 5th grade. 
It kinda creeps Jeremy out.
Not sure it will stay on the wall.





Ma Ladies




Ma piggy




A little project that is going to hang above the bed.



So that's just some details of around the apartment....

and a way that i didn't have to take pictures of the full rooms. 

 It's a little messy. 

Took down most of Christmas yesterday :(

Ditty of the Day :: Home Alone

I've been humming the Home Alone songs all week so i thought i would post a video i found of the songs and some fun lights to go with it.

We just about finished moving everything in.  Just a few things in the other place like a rug and a chair.  Yesterday we decorated the Christmas tree.  There is still stuff everywhere that needs to find its place, but it's coming together.  Jeremy's mom is coming to visit next Tuesday so hopefully things will be put up.  Since our closets don't have doors i need to get some curtains or some fabric to make curtains to hide some of our mess. Storage in this unit is a little tight so we are having to find ways to hide things or display them nicely. 

P.S.  We saw Ziva for the first time on Saturday!!  She was so happy to see us (unfortunately we had to ignore for the first few minutes.  She was jumping up on us and we had to wait till she stopped.)  Finally after an hour of working with her and the guy teaching us how things work we were able to pet her and give her some love.  She was just so happy she was peeing everywhere.  Same ole Ziva.  We will see her again today for another review/training!!  And again tomorrow and we will get to take her home. YAY!!!  We will finally have our little family together again.

Taking a break from moving // On this day last year

Since Friday afternoon we have been moving into our new apartment.  It's in the same building but different unit and floor.   We've done a lot so far but it still seems like we have a lot more to do.  Hopefully by this weekend we will be completely moved over and will get our Christmas tree! 


And on this day last year we drove to Indiana to pick up this cute little puppy!!  We were both so excited and nervous (maybe that was just me.  I was afraid the breeders were going to take one look at us and turn us down)  She was so sleepy on the drive home.  For the first few days she was so quiet and cuddly....that all changed quickly!!!  Ziva is still gone at her training.  I'm hoping we will get to see her this weekend and bring her home next week.  I miss her a lot!!  Even Jeremy told me yesterday that he had a dream about her and woke up sad and missing her.  I'm not sure what she will think of the new place, but i think she will like it.  It's got a big balcony for her to watch the kids below play on the playground.  Unfortunately there's no long hallway for her to run down. 

Here are a few pictures from the first day we got her!