gotta love plumbing problems during the christmas season!
well...at least it wasn't in the thousands like mr. plumber said would be the next step.

oh, 60 year old cast iron pipes. is this a reason people buy large new homes for the price of smaller old homes?

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christmas is up

decorations have actually been up for about 3 weeks. i was pretty excited to
get things out!

we moved our picture wall into the living room

payton loves our german christmas pyramid. this is special to us,
we bought it when we lived there in 2005.

this is our new advent calendar. our friends from church gave us these little
mittens from his days at starbucks(they were gift card holders). i asked for a few and i got 3,000!
i'll be stuffing them each night with either a bible verse, stickers or a little treat for our little miss.

i am waiting to receive our first christmas card of the season.....who's it going to be?

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true style!

my great friend, erin, sent me this hilarious picture of herself on black friday......

she has super style or is it macgruber that has the super style?

(her husband, mike, said she had to retire that outfit)

thanks for the laugh, erin!

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murray fam pics

these are our cool cali friends, the murrays. we have formed such a great friendship over the past 3 years through church and our small group.
they have 3 kiddos that were a hoot to photograph.

we even had a little friend pass by during a position change :)

laura, hope i'm not spoiling any of your christmas card photos.
i was hesitate to put the last one up, thinking your cali fam would enjoy a donkey in the background.
lol!

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homecoming at snu

we headed up to okc for our homecoming and an arts festival at southern nazarene university.
jord helped me out soooo much with setting up my both and audra kept me
company the whole day(she even stood in line for lunch for an HOUR)!
the day was a success for sissy's designs ! (more things will be added soon)

my MIL made some adorable peasant style shirts

i had lots of visitors-
audra, payton, jordan, heather, roxanne, brooke, lisa, and baby layla

at little basketball cheer

we even got to be a part of dustin and audra's "reveal party" for the sex of their baby......
it's a GIRL!
we all bit into the cupcake at the same time and found out from the pink icing.

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oh, how i like trees...

oh, how i do not like leaves!
saturday was, "rake the leaves day". good thing we had two helpers to spread out our neat piles.
we had eli for the weekend and we put him to work.
well, actually they played in the leaves while we worked.
eli and payton are too funny together. payton is like his 2nd mom and he doesn't always
appreciate her motherly love.

she told him he had to have a helmet on to ride her trike.

seriously, sis, please take care of his duck tale.

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oklahoma arts festival

sissy's designs is headed to oklahoma for an arts festival!
(minus the other sissy)
here are a few of the things i will be selling.

these are felt coloring bags that i've embellished and they will be filled with
a handmade coloring book and up-cycled crayons.

here are rings for all types

and here are my favorite...
sissy's silly dolls!

i am also selling felt and feather hair clips and headbands, earrings, jr. slings,
christmas onsies, enclosure cards and more!
i'll take pics of my booth and hopefully come back with very little inventory.

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