This week so far

School is over, as of this past Sunday night at 11:59.5pm when I turned in my final paper that was due at midnight. I have gotten all of my grades back except one and I have been checking it obsessively...as in I have checked it 3 times today and it's only noon. This guy is taking his sweet time and driving me crazy. But so far so good, another semester down and 1 year to go. Now I have a whole month off and don't know what to do with myself.

So far this week we got a new tree, did some crafts, baked, cleaned, got some packages ready to mail out and all that stuff that moms and babies do.

Last night was wine night Wednesday and Eve stayed up until 10pm sitting on Daddy's lap staring at the campfire. She LOVES camp fires! And being outside in general. Between that and the fact that Steve is already talking about teaching her how to ride 4-wheelers and shoot guns, she is going to be the cutest little tomboy ever...but lets not get ahead of ourselves

She has been lounging around all morning. I think being up past her bedtime wore her out!

This is the tootsie tree that Eve and I made a few days ago
(our version of something we found on Pinterest). I was pretty proud that we managed it
without getting paint on anything other than her feet and the cardstock.

Since I was dead set on Evelyn having a real tree for Christmas this year and every year, Steve took our dead tree back to the tree man and he gave us a new one. I got all scratched up by the dead tree, found 2 spiders in the new tree and feel like I spent 2 days of my life in a tangle of Christmas lights. Finally, it's all done and I am glad we have a tree that is living and pretty. I am going to water the shit out of it and feed it sprite.

Can you tell that I like a little tree with my lights?

Eve has received 2 Christmas ornaments from family members so far and there is one more on the way, so she is off to a good start on her ornament collection. When she is old enough [not to break the  ornaments and try to eat the glass], she she can have her own small tree in her room. By the time she moves out she should have a whole big tree full!

I ordered a memorial ornament for my dad this year, and also an ornament for a friend who just had a big milestone in their life (it's a secret, because I know you are reading this). I love ornaments that mean something....pulling them out every year and remembering where they came from!

For anyone who didn't get to see our ugly sweater family from this past weekend:

Doesn't Steve look like an adorable little golf caddy?