please forgive me...

i had all intentions of a new post today but i was up all night with a sick little girl and am totally lagging this AM.  hope you have a wonderful hump day...off to get more coffee and maybe a cat nap.  see you tomorrow.

its' beginning to look a lot like christmas....

well, kind of :)  at least for the organized people at southern flourish!  they were sweet enough to ask me and a couple of other fabulous bloggers to design a mantel for their online magazine (the newest edition just came out!!).  my instructions were to make it "city slick"...here's a sneak peek....

in my real life, i am less organized.  we tried to knock out a lot of the christmas decorations and duties..
we attempted to do a christmas card....easier said then done.  most of them looked like this:

we did get one decent one w/ the family...but i will save that for later since i haven't sent my cards out yet!  after that chaos, we decided we needed to go and get our christmas tree (don't you love tay's expression).

the thing i am most excited about is the garland- i went with real this year and it is sooooo worth the $25 i spent on 75 feet of garland. if you have this option, you should totally buy it!  it is so pretty and so easy to use!  today, we are putting the rest on the exterior of the house (which needs some help, who knows what the neighbors are saying about us!!).

we managed to decorate our tree and some of the house but all in all, i wanted to keep it simple this year.    maybe it's because i am being lazy but i just don't have it in me to go all out.  while we decorated, walker entertained himself...and yes, i know that when he is 16 and sees this picture he is going to kill me...but isn't it our duty as parents to do these kinds of things to our children :)  hope y'all had a wonderful weekend!!

i have this little 5 month old.  he steals my heart and has me tied around his finger (and he knows it).  he has this one little catch though, he isn't a fan of going to sleep (my little girl was such a good sleeper)....
i do a lot of running up and down the stairs to put the pacifier back in, to rub his belly, to flip him over when he gets stuck, to turn back on the sound machine.  and 9 x's out of 10- i am leaving the room in an army crawl (seriously, on the floor crawling out of the room so he doesn't see me).  and every time, i think to myself- are you seriously crawling on the floor right now??!!  i attached an action figure so you could get a visual :)

*images courtesy of nursery notions, bla bla kids, dwell, everything leb, google image

can you believe that dec.1 is tomorrow??  insanity i tell you.  taylor keeps asking when we are decorating the christmas tree....the better question would be- when are we buying our christmas tree!  so have you started decorating yet??

*images courtesy of fashion toast, fabulous k, so very pretty

good morning!!  i hope y'all had a wonderful thanksgiving!  we sure did.  i think i will be okay if i never eat another carb again :)  here are some pretties to start off your monday....

*images courtesy of hillary the mammal, greige, domino, living inside

happy thanksgiving!!!

so i am officially signing off for the thanksgiving holidays....i have a pile of things i need to do, food i need to cook, vacuums' i need to use, bathrooms i have to clean, tables i need to decorate, family i need to visit with, and turkey i need to eat.  i have so many things to be thankful for this year....including y'all- a HUGE thank you for being w/ me for so long!  i hope you have a wonderful turkey day!!!!

*images courtesy of where the sidewalk begins, ritzy bee, little big house

wow....

can you believe that thanksgiving is this thursday??!!  is your kitchen and dining room ready for all of the excitement??!  mine needs some help. it's a little messy at the moment....
if i had that adorable dish towel, i swear it would be clean :)

*images courtesy of remodelista, the desk of annie, donna wilson