The Holiday Season!

The holidays are upon us and it has been a busy couple of weeks. We had an amazing Thanksgiving with all of our new and wonderful Kodiak friends. We decorated for Christmas and I am happy to say I am done with my Christmas shopping and everything is already wrapped. Just call me a Christmas over achiever this year! There are just two small things to pick up and then I have to ship our presents off to our families in the lower 48. I feel very productive and am so excited for Christmas and it is not even December yet! I guess all the snow and cold weather we have been having brings out my Christmas spirit.

Glitter Stars for the Holidays

Since living in Alaska I have been able to experience seasons! I loved the fall and now we have jumped into winter full force. I haven't lived in the snow since I was a little girl so this is a fun experience for me. This will be our first white Thanksgiving and Christmas as a family. I have been feeling very festive lately wanting to make all sorts of fun decorations for our house. I decided to make some fun glitter starts to hang over the kitchen bar. We are having friends over for Thanksgiving next week and I wanted to have some fun and festive decorations in the house. I printed stars on card stock paper, scored them, cut them, folded them and covered them in glitter. I think they turned out pretty cute. I took the hot glue gun and glued them to a ribbon and then hung them. The only downfall to this project was the fact that I got glitter EVERYWHERE!!!

Fun with Felt

I'm always trying to find new ways to entertain my little one. I had bought some felt at Walmart a while back and decided to pull it out and cut some letters for Addison to play with. She was having fun looking at them on the floor and then I decided to see if they would stick to the back of the couch. Well guess what they did!!! They didn't stick really well but good enough for her to play putting them on and off of the couch. It entertained her for a while, which was my goal!

The Joys of Owning a Lab!

Today was still freezing cold out but the sun was shining so I decided we needed to go for a walk. Our black lab Angel has been so stir crazy the last few days from being cooped up in the house. I bundled Addison up in her stroller and out we went. We recently got Angel a new training collar and it is simply AMAZING! It may look mean but it works great. I could never walk her while pushing the stroller before but now she walks so nicely next to us. You would think she was the most well trained dog if you saw us out walking. The collar we purchased is prong training collar. I'd suggest getting it if you have a dog that is really strong puller.

Once we got to the park I threw the ball a million times for Angel. Then our friends showed up with their dog Cloe, and Angel and Cloe competed for the ball making Angel even more tired. She was so wore out I wasn't sure if she would make it home. This was my plan! I wanted her so tired that all she would do the rest of the day is lie around and sleep. Once we got home she fell fast asleep on the living room floor. It wasn't till about 1pm that she regained her strength by eating a piece of frozen chicken I had pulled out for our dinner. I went upstairs for less than five minutes only to find when I came downstairs there were two pieces of chicken in the bowl on the counter instead of three. Angel had guilt written all over her face along with little pieces of chicken on the kitchen floor. If Joe were home Angel may of gotten a beating but she was lucky I only scolded her and put her on the porch for a timeout. Oh the joy of owning a Lab!!

Basketball Nursery

A friend of a friend of mine here in Kodiak is having a baby boy soon. Her nursery theme is basketballs and she was having a hard time finding things for the nursery with just basketballs and things to do with basketball. Everything had multiple sports or different kinds of balls like footballs, baseballs and basketballs. She came to me with a few ideas of what she wanted for three canvass and this is what I came up with. I think they turned out pretty cute. I hope she likes them!

First Snow!

Yesterday was a very exciting day! We got the first snow of the season yesterday and it was Addison's half birthday! That's right she is 18 months old now! She is growing so fast! We were so excited to see the snow we bundled all up and ran out to play. Angel (our dog) was so excited to play ball in the snow. Addison didn't know what to think of it all and had a hard time moving around in all of her snow gear. We wanted to wake up daddy to play but we knew he needed to sleep. Call me crazy but I am looking forward to a white winter!