Bring It On Christmas, I'm Ready For You

As tradition in the Allen household states, we must drive to the mountains and pick out our Christmas tree. This year was no different, only instead of going the day after Thanksgiving as tradition states, we went the day before. Why haven't we done that sooner?!? Unlike previous years, we were the only ones there. I mean, besides the dudes working there, we were the ONLY ones there. It was awesome. No guarding your tree to make sure no one else gets it while you send someone to lug up and down the mountain looking for the guy with the chain saw. No waiting for the tree to be brought down the mountain to be wrapped up. No waiting in line to pay for said tree. None of that, just a stress free, quite ride up the mountain with the hubbers and Fletch.
After some creative rearranging of the furniture, we got the tree up and started to decorate it.
Fletch is 3 and really "gets" Christmas this year. He was a good little helper. He had all the ornaments out the the box before the hubbers and I got the lights on the tree.

He topped it all off with candy canes. We spent Sunday putting all the decorations are out and I'm ready. (Kind of.)
My sister thought it would be a good idea to tell a 3 year old that he really needed a go cart for Christmas.(Never gonna happen.) She even gave him a clipping from the newspaper. Now, every one in the family knows that you should not make suggestions to my OCD kid unless you are committed to that suggestion. So, now I have spent the last 3 days trying to explain to a stubborn 3 year old that his Aunt is crazy and should have never made such a suggestion because Santa isn't going to bring him a go cart. Thanks Aunt Has-No-Sense. Your day will come. I think your little girl is going to need a pony when she is three.

Happy Turkey Day

I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving. I'm ready for a day of eating. I've got my best pair of sweatpants on so there will be plenty of room for belly expansion. We are headed to my

in-laws for lunch and then my parents of dinner, so sweatpants are a must.

(I wish I could take credit for the cute turkeys, but they were made by my friend, Sue. She is so creative.)

Another One Bites The Dust

I got another thing checked off my list last night! I got the Advent Calendar Quilt done. Fletcher was really excited about it. Now I just have to get the hubbers to make me a way to mount and hang it and we will be all set.

We are heading up to the mountains today to get our Christmas tree. We usually do it the day after Thanksgiving, but there is a lot going on with family this weekend, so we thought we would do it today.

One Stocking Down...

...one to go.

I've gotten little Marion's stocking completely done. Yeah!!! Now I just have go get one more made for little Brooke before Christmas gets here. I better get crack-a-lackin'!

Jammies

I did manage to move my booty off the sofa yesterday and be a little productive. I made Fletch some new jammies. I got some of the new super soft flannel from Anna Maria and used the Favorite Things Sleep Well pattern.
I also embroidered a little shirt to go with all the little deer on the fabric. I have plans to make some for myself. What could be better than flannel PJ's!

Merry and Bright

So here it is....the finished Merry and Bright Christmas Quilt. Luckily it hasn't started raining yet, so the hubbers was kind enough to hold it up for me. I mentioned that I had a lot to do on my list today, but so far I have been sucked into watching cheesy Christmas movies on ABC Family. From now until Christmas, ABC Family and the Hallmark Channel will be showing every cheese ball Christmas movie ever made and I find it very difficult to look away. I mean seriously, how could I with titles like Holiday in Handcuffs (get your mind out of the gutter people, it's on the family channel for goodness sake) staring Mario Lopez and Melissa Joan Hart. Seriously!

But, before I got sucked into all the television drama and my butt formed a nice hinney print in the sofa, I did make some Chocolate Chip Cookies with my great little assistant, Fletcher.



He quietly waited and watched as the cookies baked.

And before I even got them out of the oven, his daddy had two glasses of milk waiting. These two turkeys never even let the cookies cool. We made them for my grandmother's birthday. She loves them and what else do you get a lady that doesn't want anything. Hopefully, there will be some left to give her.

Checkin' Things Off My "To Do" List

I'm getting things done around here. I'm like a dag'um machine. I got the blocks all trimmed up and put together for the Advent Calendar. I made a little mistake on it, but if you can't tell where the mistake is, then I'm certainly not telling. Next, it needs to be quilted and the binding put on. I have, of course, made plans to do more things tomorrow then there is time, but quilting this is on my list. It could happen. I would like to get it checked off the list.

Check out these fab-bo fabrics. I picked them up at Karen Gray Design. I have been wanting to make a Red and Aqua quilt for a while now, so I thought I would start a little stash building.
Who knows what exactly the pattern will be or when this one will ever be made, but I'm kinda crushing on this quilt right now. This quilt is also a good possibility.

I put the last stitch in the binding on the Merry and Bright Christmas Quilt about an hour ago. It is in the dryer as we speak. I can't wait to get that warm bundle of crinkly goodness out of the dryer. Ohhh, that's my favorite part of the whole quilt making process. Love it.

I hope to get some good pictures of it tomorrow to share with you. It is supposed to be rainy and cold here tomorrow, so getting good pics could be problematic, but it is certainly perfect weather for a day of sewing.