For Sale

As you might have seen in THIS previous post My parents gave me a Cricut personal electronic cutting machine in September as an early Christmas gift. Well I have loved it much and to my surprise, my parents upgraded me to the "Expression", the newest Cricut cutter as a "Real" Christmas gift! So I've concluded that I don't need 2 die cutting machines and decided I would try to sell the first one I received. Click HERE to see machine info. The machine is gently used, in great condition and will come with original packaging. Email me at chawski82@gmail.com if you are interested.

These people definitely have the Christmas spirit

This house is just a few blocks from ours. It's beyond the Griswolds, I've never seen anything like it in person. We've driven by probably 7 times just to check it out, it's honestly unbelievable. The owner said they start putting up the lights after Halloween and 4 of them do it together. We went last night and channel 4 news was there and the house won best Christmas lights in the OC register. Not only do they have just have lights, there is Christmas music playing, Mr. and Mrs. Claus, elf's and candy canes too! So great... we love it.

Cards

I love when my board gets all filled up with Christmas cards. Thanks to everyone who sent us Holiday wishes!

Christmas is almost here

Apartment problems

Problem #1
Our upstairs toilet wasn't flushing properly so we called the landlord. They sent over their "Handyman" who had to completely remove the toilet to find the problem. What did he find? Just a giant bouncy ball! I asked Noah if he did it and he nodded his head "No"... right (I totally believe him).

Problem #2
Our guest room/office/Noah's room, window is leaking. Actually I think the roof is leaking so it's really coming through the wall, but it doesn't help that the window doesn't close correctly. It's been raining like crazy and it's leaking all over the wall, carpet and unfortunately the water leaked onto our office desk and ruined my camera charger. I just got it just 2 months ago... very annoyed.

Problem #3
Our heaters not working. I just discovered this one about 10 minutes ago. It's blowing cold air. whats next? So I guess I'm glad we're renting right now, because it wouldn't be fun paying for all these problems ourselves.

Advent calendars

My Mama and I made these cute advent calendars when I was visiting for Thanksgiving. I'm SO glad we made them while I was there because my Mom conveniently had everything we needed just laying around. They took 2 days to make and we made a total mess, the room looked like a "Crafting" bomb went off. We got the idea HERE.

Go Lakers

Thank you Anil for the awesome tickets.

Someone's excited about Christmas...

Thanksgiving

Black Friday

My Mom, sisters and I went shopping bright and early the day after Thanksgiving. I've done it here and in Utah and the crowd is definitely crazier in Utah. Keslee and I went to Target for movies, my Mom went to Roberts for Cricut cartridges and Carli went to Toys R' Us for (Obviously) toys. We were all quite successful and glad we did it.

I wanna try this...

The first vibrating Powermascara by Lancôme: 7,000 oscillations per minute.

Press the button and experience a breakthrough sensation in application. In one easy new gesture, let the vibrating brush combined with an exquisitely smooth formula wrap every lash up to 360°.

Instantly see a fascinating gaze: lashes appear ultimately extended, remarkably separated, and virtually multiplied in number.

I had a client tell me it's the "Best mascara" she's ever used. I'm still deciding whether or not I am willing to spend $34 on mascara. Maybe Santa will put it in my stocking... hint, hint (Dave).

Christmas photos

A big thank you to my favorite photographer. These were rough to take because there were 8 dogs running around and the little man didn't want to hold still. We were ultra smiley in these ones because we got our bar results the night before. Yippee.