2 Down, 2 To Go

Oh, and you just thought Christmas was over. Not for us!! We are still blowing and going in the Aylor house. We celebrated Christmas with my side of the family the weekend before Christmas, we were home for Santa's arrival, and we leave in the morning to celebrate with Steve's side of the family. I have mentioned before about my desire to write a book...I am beginning to think that my topic could be about my crazy life during the holidays. Seriously, there is soooo much material this time of year!!

Here are a few pictures of our holidays that are worth posting so far.


Our completed gingerbread house. Braxton keeps asking when we are going to eat it.


I made monkey bread for our family to enjoy on Christmas morning. I went a little roll crazy. Note to self: Do not add so many rolls next time.


I made my first Christmas dinner all by myself this year. It was yummy. We had ham, green beans almondine, hash brown casserole, and rolls. Again, note to self: Do not add so many rolls next time. They may have overflown and flopped, but they sure tasted great!


Thank you JCPenney! After searching and searching, we finally found a purse for Grandma Ruthie. Black. One Strap. One Zipper. Not black on the inside (red will have to do). And medium sized. I think it's cute, so if she doesn't like it I may be bringing it home with me. :)


I already regret this Christmas gift.....


I hope you and your family had a fantastic Christmas! More pictures to come as the celebrating continues for the Aylor family.

Tis the season....

to be JOLLY. Fa la la la la, la la la la. In case you are wondering, I did just count my fa la la's to make sure that I had the right amount! Did you? :) I hope all is well with my blogging friends and readers. I feel like such a slacker. We have been super busy in the Aylor house...trying to stay sane, reminding each other to be JOLLY this season, and not forgetting the reason for the season. Why is the most peaceful and precious time of the year absolutely crazy?? We have even toned down the present buying and the party hopping, but it is still a little nuts-o and I feel a cold sore creeping in.

I LOVE Christmas. I love our tree. I love our stockings. I love all the baby Jesus' from our various nativity scenes that Nash carries around the house saying "Happy Jesus" to. I love this time of year. I love our little Elf, Freddie, who flies to the North Pole each night while we're asleep and reports to Santa. I love feety pajamas on my kids. Although it's a battle to get them on Nash as he shouts, "No wheaties mom-mom!" I just squish those little legs in there anyway and send him on his way. I love all the snowmen around the house that I have collected over the years. I love all the ornaments my kids have made...even though they are only 5 and 2 I feel like we have a lifetime's worth of homemade stuff! Man, I should post pictures of our house at Christmas for all to see, but seeing how I have been a blog slacker this month I doubt very seriously I snap shots of the house.

We have a fun night planned as we are in the final days before Christmas. Braxton reminded me a few days ago, "Mom, I haven't seen Santa yet and I need to tell him what I want!" So here we are on Christmas Eve Eve and are about to make a trip to talk to the big man in red. I do hope Braxton doesn't throw out some insane present that has yet to be purchased! After visiting Santa then it's off to the grocery store to buy food for our bare pantry and for Christmas dinner. I hope that my family is the ONLY ONE in the grocery store. I hope that everyone else has already purchased groceries for the holidays. Wishful thinking? When we get home the plan is to put together our gingerbread house and then make popcorn for movie night. Braxton received "Wall-E" as an early Christmas gift from my parents and we are eager to curl up on the couch and watch it together.

I have a little to do list before Christmas can get here, which includes cleaning my house, grocery shopping, wrapping presents, and finding ONE MORE GIFT!!! I'll tell you what I'm looking for and you can be on the look out when you are out. We are celebrating with Steve's family next week, so thankfully I have a little time to search. But here we go...I am looking for a black purse for Steve's Grandma Ruthie. A black purse? That's all, you ask?? Oh wait, there's more...here's the ad.

Wanted:
Black purse, ONE strap, ONE zipper, medium sized, and must be light-colored on the inside. Need to spend around $30. Have already looked at Target, Kohls, Dillards, Macy's, Wal-Mart, Payless, New York & Company, Shoe Carnival, and a few other specialty shops.

Let me know if you find anything! :)

I will leave you with a little picture of my sweet boys. We did not send out a Christmas card this year, but maybe I would have used this picture or one similar to it on the card if we would have....



Merry Christmas!!

Got Nothing....

I keep coming to my blog, ready to BLOG! But I got nothing....nothing fantastic to say, nothing witty, nothing uplifting. I've been a little dry lately. My kids are great and are always funny, but I still got nothing. I often think "Oh, that is definitely blog worthy!" when they do something wonderful, but I still come to my blog not really in the mood to blog. I could just throw up a few pictures and call it a day, but not today.

I'm also a little under the weather at the moment (stomach bug), so maybe when I get to feeling better, disinfect my house, pay more attention to my kids, and get my 100 loads of laundry done, then I will think of something great to write about.

I'm not going to make any promises, but here's to hoping the Aylor blog will be interesting again....