Recovered yet?

Did you all have a nice holiday? We had a very Merry Christmas.
Christmas Eve the boys played and played awaiting Santa's arrival the next day.

                                                                                                                                          

Santa was good to my little boys. My oldest, Jake was gifted with a Thomas the Tank Engine Bike, his first. Of course, I cried watching Jake's excited reaction. Really, he was excited although you can't tell by this picture.

Ryan was pooped after opening two presents so he went down for a nap and missed the majority of opening presents. Luckily, he didn't seem to mind a bit.
Grandma Leslie (my mom) made the boys the coolest Tee Pee. I'll post soon on how she did it.

Since Christmas, my house has become a disaster zone. All day today I have been trying to clean it in between my bouts of laziness. Yet it is still a mess. Hope to have things organized, washed and smelling lemony fresh by weeks end.

Merry Christmas

Check out our Christmas Snowball fight...

We teamed up with some magical elves near Santa's village and there was fun to be had.

Merry Christmas from our family to yours.

Sarah x

It's Christmas, finally...

The tree is up, the lights are on and the ornaments are being broke, removed, tossed and occasionally tasted by my two little elves, Jake and Ryan..... It finally feels like Christmas in our house.

{The boys decorating the tree}

{Decorated with love}

Sarah x

Black Friday

In my 33 years 23 years, I have never taken part of Black Friday. The shopping extravaganza the day after Thanksgiving. This year my sis in law is trying to get me to go but the 4am shopping start time sounds grueling. My head hurts just writing it out. I am thinking I'd rather be asleep at that time but kinda want to see what all the fuss if about. Do you all shop on Black Friday?
Happy Thanksgiving!

{real simple}

Gobble Gobble

My favorite things to gobble up at Thanksgiving.

Turkey

Mashed Potatoes

Herb Stuffing

A simply festive table setting

images courtesy of martha stewart, real simple