Happy New Year!

I hope this year brings you tons of what ever it is that you love, tons of time to do it & tons of family and friends to do it with!!!

Happy New Year!

Pictures at Matt & Steph's

These are some pictures I took at my Bro's house that I liked and thought that I'd share them with everyone. Enjoy!

I love Icicles!!!

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Matt's dog Killer must have been a good boy cause Santa brought him a really big bone! I played fetch with him with snowballs but instead of bringing them back to me he'd eat 'em!!!

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Matt & Steph's pretty horses in their pretty back yard.

White Christmas

We were lucky and got a very white Christmas this year!

This is a picture I took of Matt & Steph's (My Bro & Sis-in-Law) front yard.

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And I had to take a picture of their Christmas decorations so I can claim that someone actually has MORE trees up in their house than me!!!! I think that I counted a total of eight trees!!!

Matt & Steph - I loved your decorations!

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My parents, Corinne, Chris, Matt, Steph, Troy & I all celebrated Christmas at my parents house in Wyoming. On Christmas day we got to go visit Grandma, Papa & Teddy.

Thank you to my family for making Christmas very fun and memorable this year. We love you all!

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Apple to Apples

I still agree with Dad....Boyfriends are more confused than Helen Keller! Of course that gave me the last green card to win the game too!

Santa Came Early

Santa Clause always comes to early to our house! We open gifts we give to each other before we leave to visit our family. We had presents overflowing from under the tree, we both must have been pretty good because we both got everything we wished for and more!

Thank you!

Thanks to all the girls for coming over and celebrating! I had a wonderful time at the party and enjoyed having all of you at my home. Thank you for all the wonderful gifts! I will treasure them always.

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Jackie took this great picture of me and my boys; Elvis & Otis. And yes my Santa hat is pink and does have rhinestones all over it.....what else would you expect from BlingGirl?

Naughty or Nice

I got to sit on Santa's lap this year, he asked me if I've been Naughty or Nice. I told him that I'd been a little Naughty. Troy said a little Naughty is Nice. I guess that means I'm on the Good List, can't wait to see what Santa fills my stocking with...

Jackie's comment made me remember that I was going to point out that it was very fitting for Santa to have a "Diet Coke Throne" for the "Diet Coke Queen"!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!

I would like to wish everyone a

very Merry Christmas!

For those of you who don't already know:

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!

Every year one of the things I look forward to the most is watching the movie:
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas"

staring Jim Carrey

I love getting a big glass of eggnog and a plate full of cookies and watching the movie with Troy, I think he enjoys it just as much as I do!

I'm starting off the Christmas section of my blog with the trailer from the movie, if you've never seen it, it's a MUST for the holidays & if you've already seen it you know that you just can't get enough! It's chalked full of adult humor, definitely not just for the kids.

~Enjoy~

My Shopping is Done!

"That's what it's all about right? That's what it's always been about! Gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts! Do you know what happens to your gifts? They all come to me...in your garbage. Do you see what I'm saying here? IN YOUR GARBAGE! I could hang myself with all the bad Christmas neckties I found at the dump! And the avarice...[points to mayor] The avarice never ends! "I want golf clubs!" "I want diamonds!" "I want a pony so I can ride it twice, get bored, and send it away to make glue!""

-The Grinch

Instead of giving gifts for the sake of having a present to open on Christmas my family has decided to give the money we would have spent on gifts for each other to a family who can not afford to give Christmas to their kids. My Sister-in-Law, Stephanie found a needy family in Utah through her friends church. The family gave us a list of what they needed & what the kids want for Christmas and we get to go do the fun of shopping for the kids! None of us have kids of our own so it's fun for us to get to shop for toys and give someone a gift that truly needs it and I don't have to do any Christmas shopping! Yeah!

All I need is a reindeer...

Grinch: All I need is a reindeer.

Narrator: The Grinch looked around, but since reindeer were scarce, there were none to be found. Did that stop the Grinch? Ha! He simply said:

Grinch: If I can't find a reindeer, I'll make one instead.

Narrator: So he took his dog Max, and he took some red thread, and he tied a big horn on the top of his head.

I always say that I don't dress up my dogs,

so okay I guess I dress up my dogs!

Otis makes a better Reindeer & Elvis a better Santa.

Elvis is very easy to take pictures of, when I put costumes on him he acts like he is paralyzed on won't even walk around. It's actually quite comical, I'm laughing as I'm typing picturing him, it's like I put him in a straight jacket or something. Otis is of course the opposite & very hard to take pictures of , he moves like crazy. A combination of the lighting & him moving around Otis looks like the Grinch in this picture.

Looks a Lot Like Christmas

It's definitely way past beginning to look

a lot like Christmas at my house!

We've got a full blown winter wonderland!

The decorations are up & the stockings are hung with hopes that Santa Troy will bring me lots of presents this year! I love the "Whoville" kind of decorations they are my favorite. If I could turn my house into "Whoville" and make it look like this picture I would!

I talk about how much I love Christmas & how our house gets transformed during the holidays but not everyone lives close enough to see the magical transformation; so as promised here are the pics!

This first tree is the one we have in our Family Room/Kitchen area. It's the slim 12' tree & is decorated with what I consider traditional Christmas. I made about half of the ornaments on this tree, we have popcorn garland (yes it's real popcorn), cinnamon "cookie" gingerbread men, cinnamon stick "snowflakes", yarn "balls" & felt stockings. I bought the rest of the ornaments and topped it off with a pine cone star. I put garland around the fireplace, it looks really pretty with the white lights at night.

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This is the fat 12' tree & what I call my "Whoville" tree; my favorite tree. It's in the Living Room it has red, green, white & silver ornaments and has lots of real & fake candy. I add red & green "Whoville" lights in addition to the white ones, it makes the whole room glow red. This tree is decorated with about half made & half purchased ornaments. Troy even strung some gumdrop (yes real gumdrops) garland for this tree!

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And for the first time ever I've decorated a third tree. We actually got a new fat tree this year & I kept the top portion of the old 12' tree, it's about 5' high. The plant in my den died when we went to Florida & I have not put a new one in, so I just plopped the tree right into the pot, I'll get a new plant after Christmas.

I call this tree my Beads & Bling tree. Everything on this tree is either beads or bling. All the decoration are either clear or white and it's topped with a silver star. I have pearl garland, beaded icicles, glittered snowflakes, diamond drops and lots of other beads & bling!

I might have a new favorite tree!

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We are having two parties this year. The girls are having one of their own in addition to our traditional party. We love to share our holiday spirit so for those too far away to come to our party I hope that you can sense it from what you can see here.

We love you all!

Merry Christmas!

Monty Python

"It's only a flesh wound."

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In high school one of my favorite movies was Monty Python & the Holy Grail. My friends & I would watch it over & over again, laughing every time! Last night Troy took me to see Spamalot at the Wynn & I LOVED it!!! It was so funny!!! If you liked the movie you'll LOVE Spamalot!

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Those of you in Vegas, if you want to go see it, watch your mail, we got a postcard & got our tickets for half price!

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I think I'm going to add the movie to my Christmas wishlist!

Ooo la la....

I love my beautiful pink scarf that my Mother-in-Law, Jean, brought me back from France. It was perfect weather for it the other day & looked gorgeous with my silver sweater and jeans.

I love it!

Thank you!

Favorite

It's so hard to pick because I love them all so much, but when pressed I think I have to say my Purse Snowbaby is my favorite!