Its Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas!

I am in Love with Christmas, I love every little dumb thing about it! I love the songs, I love my tacky Christmas tee that I tackily wore when actually Christmas shopping. I love outgifting (of course at a fabulous frugal price that no one will ever know) I love wrapping in obnoxious Christmas paper, especially ones that don't match my moms perfect décor (seriously though her tree looks like she robbed it from Macy's). I love seeing peoples faces! I love cooking or baking or really anything to do with the whole silly thing. I even almost cried when I realized my house doesn't have a fireplace and asked if I could sue my realtor for not advising of such an important thing(my mom was my realtor ; P). For the record I would totally sell my house tonight if Bryan would buy me another with a fireplace tomorrow so I could decorate the heck out of it!

All year I've been saying how silly it is to even make a deal out of Christmas with Liam being so small even though I love it so much, "he won't even remember it" I said. "He couldn't possibly process it" I said.......and yet here I am decorating and asking him if he thinks the tree looks too off centered, and buying and wrapping presents, and you bet your bottom dollar he's going to sit in his bumbo with me and bake Santa some Christmas cookies, which I will then proceed to break my diet and eat! I seriously even considered doing Elf on The Shelf but had to seriously step aside and realize its gone way too far when your playing with dolls as an adult by yourself! Maybe next year I'll finally be that crazy but until then I guess I have some sanity left in me!

And why am I being a hypocrite? Honestly because one day I want Liam to look at pictures of me baking with him on the counter and see his obnoxiously wrapped presents with his crazy mom wearing a very tacky Christmas tee and know that I love the hell out of him and couldn't wait to do and share all these very silly things with him that make a lifetime of memories and never wasted a second. ;D



Oh hey, there's ME in a tacky Christmas Tee being way to excited to decorate the tree! I was also wearing plaid pants and polka dot socks to complete the ensemble ;D

 

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Last year, I had no duct tape and spent literally an hour scotch taping my tree back into its box, one could say I had too much time on my hands? I say someone ought to buy me some duct tape for Christmas this year!

 

 

Bueller photobombed a gazillion pictures!

 

 

I found these cute Christmas Sacks at Rite Aid and am forcing the adults to do "Secret Santa"!!!

                    My Finished Product, Ain't She a BEUAT!!!!

Bend It Like Beckham!!!

I don't typically like a baby in a diaper in pictures after the age of 4 weeks but I just had to share these cute and some very hysterical pictures I caught of Liam tonight playing with his little orange ball while he was waiting for bath time! He loves kicking the heck out of that thing!!! Maybe we have a soccer star on our hands?!?!

P.S. Someone learned how to suck his thumb like there's tomorrow today!!! Oh bother, as much as I don't like pacifiers and try to very minimally give him one I almost prefer it to the thumb. I can take away a pacifier, I can't take away that thumb and they just began a love affair that I have a feeling that his love for mama aint gunna matter to break it!

Thanksgiving & Mr. 3 Months!

This last week has been so busy and hectic! Liam gains more and more personality every day and some things make us go "ooooo" and some things make us go "AHHHH" either way, we are certainly learning a lot about each other!

Mr. Liam has himself a fascination with the mobiles and I've quickly learned the easiest way to appease a baby is sometimes to just surround them with the things they love so Liam now has FIVE mobiles throughout the house and I even got this super amazing one that attaches to his car seat at Toys R Us!!! I highly recommend however will point out that either I'm crazy or every song it plays sound a whole lot like Christmas music which I guess doesn't bother me too bad seeing as its that time of year however check back in January to see if Im wearing a wig from all the hair I've pulled out!

Someone just hit 12 weeks on Thanksgiving! I don't really like to do the whole "Omg, hes 17 weeks and 2 days, pull out the cupcakes thing" but 3 months seems like a big deal mostly to the tune that Bryan and I made it to this point! I have to say I really don't think either of us have handled this newborn into infancy as graceful or well as we thought we would. Bryan and I are both perfectionist in our own ways and when we don't succeed in the way we think is perfect we both probably get too down on ourselves but hey we survived and we are lucky to have this very drooly, handsome, smiley baby to ease our frustrations at not magically growing super speed when making bottles, fabulous singing voices to soothe baby, endless energy when holding baby and the ability to fly every mess out of the house before anyone stops by and sees.

We went over to my moms for Thanksgiving and then we dealt with Black Friday madness on the wrong side of register if you ask me ;) although I did actually clock out early from helping friends and family at Bryans job and went shopping!!! Couldn't help myself!!! Ooooo and I made the cutest, yummiest little strawberry shortcakes for Thanksgiving!!!!