Daddy daughter date

Neil and Eve went to Radio Shack to get some parts yesterday, and we decided to have a little daddy daughter date at Wendy's on the way back. :)



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Cardboard in Excess

We seem to have a lot of boxes around our house... like a ridiculous amount of boxes and cardboard.

At least once a week something Neil has ordered arrives on our doorstep... Okay maybe not that often but sometimes it is that often.

So I decided to make use of all this cardboard.

A castle for my ladies





Complete with working (at least for now) drawbridge.


It's a hit!

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Christmas Eve

It's Christmas Eve and I'm listening to my kids playing nicely together while Neil plays Christmas hymns on his guitar.

My heart is so full of love and gratitude.

I have three healthy beautiful daughters, and a husband who is hard working and patient. I feel so blessed!

We opened jammies after dinner tonight, and then watched a video of the Christmas Story.

Soon kids will go to bed, Santa will stop by, and Neil and I will watch a movie while doing a puzzle I picked out yesterday.


Eve in her new jammie jams.


Adia showing off her hip pjs.


And Lily in her cute jammies.


Ready and waiting for Christmas morn.
- Angelica Oler

Baby's First Boo Boo

I had the ladder out today hanging lights. Lily love just couldn't help but try to climb after me.


Best I can guess is her hand missed the step and she caught it with her poor little face.


It's seems my kids do this kind of stuff a lot.

Poor Lily Pie :(

- Angelica Oler

Creative Outlet

Finals week is coming up which means this past week was last for classes, projects, and assignments. Makes for a very rough couple of weeks, not only for Neil but for me as well since I get to play "single mom of 3".

Wednesday was just a rough day. By the end of it I was begging Neil to come home early (about 10:30pm).

Being the awesome man the he is he came home, took the sick baby, and played hall monitor while I ran to the store. When I got home the kids were asleep and Neil was watching Hook. I knew I would never get my mind to slow down if I just sat and half watched the movie.

So I watched the movie while I concentrated on cutting out these...


Snow flakes out of double sided wrapping paper. It turned out super cute if I do say so myself. It made me happy when Eve came out of her room and saw them the next day and said "Mom! It's snowing!"

Today was a "reading" day for Neil... really, a Saturday.

I hate when they do that!

So I made these.
I'd been toying with different ideas on how to display the Christmas cards we receive, and I landed on this one.


I really liked the snowflake wreath idea but felt it would end up too cluttered if I did it on all of my higher cupboards. So I used matching ribbon on the other cupboard door to tie it in with plenty of space to clip cards.

I'm pretty excited, I think they both turned out well, and I didn't spend a single penny on any of it. It was all made from stuff I already had on hand *bonus*!
- Angelica Oler

Festivities!

We got our Christmas tree today!
For the past 4 Christmas's we have gotten our tree at North Pole Christmas Trees on State Street, I highly recommend. They are always so helpful, complimentary candy canes and twine are always included. As well as a fresh cut off the bottom of your tree, and they make loading it look so easy, which they do without even being asked.

This little lady is simply loving her first Christmas season experience, as shone by this adorable cheesy little grin.


In action shot of decorating the tree.


Our tall beautiful Christmas tree!


I love this time of year!
- Angelica Oler

Fashion Sense

Adia and Evelyn dressed themselves today :)

Luckily we weren't going anywhere.


- Angelica Oler