A WEEK I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR

****A NEW ORNAMENT GIVEAWAY on my holiday blog A BABY CHANGES EVERYTHING!

Do not miss Beth Moore's post!  What a beautiful painting of marriage in only words that Beth can string together. She is the BEST! 
For all of you that have prayed for Ashley Adams, her family got to take her home the end of last week. An answered prayer.  They have a  hard road ahead of them, but I still believe in MIRACLES.

I just posted the ORNAMENT WINNERS on the HOLIDAY BLOG.  There will be more giveaways later in the week.  I am in a GIVING MOOD! I am not sure why the music is off, but will get it fixed this week.  To be REAL HONEST, I will have to get someone to help me.  I know...PITIFUL!

Jack and Parker spent Friday and Saturday nights with us and that always makes life GOOD! They were all dressed in their LSU gear, as their Mom and Dad headed to a LSU party.  Jack loves his new jersey and cannot stop looking at it.

This is Jack today when I was making some pictures of trees..He said "What about me?"  That's from a kid that has had too many pictures made.  Plus he had my IPHONE and wanted you to think it was his.  HE NEEDS ONE! He will play Doodle Buddies for hours or until the battery runs down. 

If you have READ my blog for any length of time, you know this is the WEEK, the GAME, the REMATCH that I have been waiting for. I hope it will be a good game, no going for Brett's ankle and neither team playing after the whistle.  The NFL season opens Thursday night in New Orleans with a rematch of the Saints and the Vikings.  As you can imagine, since I live in La, 

my team is not the team most people around here will be pulling for.  I like the Saints fine, think Drew Brees is a great player, even read his book this summer and hope they win anytime they are not playing the Vikings, or in any game that would affect the Vikings.  (Better throw that in, since my goal is for Brett to win another SUPER BOWL AKA playing in Dallas in late January)  I have no idea if that will happen.  I am going to do my  best to not talk football in every post..but we are a football family and live from one season to the next.  WE LOVE IT. I think I have watched every preseason game at least twice, and I really do not like PRESEASON games.  It's just been on the NFL station and that's pretty much where our TV stays.

Jack is pretending this is LSU, but he and I know its really VIKING COLORS!

 Have a GREAT WEEK!

HOP OVER TO MY HOLIDAY BLOG

IT'S BACK....A BABY CHANGES EVERYTHING....
To read the story behind the blog name you can go here!Most people have never even known anyone that does the job I have done for the past 18 year.  HOLIDAY DECORATING, AKA, the TREE LADY! I decorate 75 trees beginning the last week in OCTOBER through early December, along with my GREAT ELVES.  It's a fun job, a hard job, a rewarding job, long hours, work until you drop job..everyday it seems a new body part hurts...
This little boy below is the BABY that changed everything in our lives 11 years ago.  We go into homes all over my city and deck their halls,and when we leave I always pray that they CELEBRATE the BABY that CHANGED the WORLD.  Last year when I started the holiday blog, it was such a privilege to share tips, tricks, and ideas with all my blog friends.  In a sense I felt like it was a PAY IT FORWARD!  I had lots of opportunities to answer private emails when someone had a question or needed some help in pulling their tree together.  I loved it..      So again this year there will be LOTS of GIVEAWAYS (I just announced an ornament giveaway TONIGHT, so hurry over and all you have to do is comment) that's it...nothing else.  There will also be some guest bloggers, some new homes and new trees...we are doing several new homes that are going to be really fun...We are going to try and share pictures at least a couple of times a week, once the actual tree schedule starts, but for the next two months I am hoping to give you lots of tips. 

This blog will continue to be the lives of my family...mostly about the little's, since they are my HEART!