Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?!

As we eat, wrap gifts, open gifts, watch movies, listen to our favorite Christmas Song, and spend time with our families it is all to easy to forget the true meaning of Christmas.

In the words of Charlie Brown- “Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?!”

And Linus answered:

And that my blog friends is what Christmas is all about, the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

So I ask you in the hustle and bustle of this time to stop and honor the true meaning of CHRISTmas. After all it is what it is all about!

MERRY CHRISTMAS CHARLIE BROWN!!

Ohh and MERRY CHRISTMAS to you too! From my blog to you I hope your Christmas is FABULOUS!!!

Someone Had a BIRTHDAY!!

Yesterday my dearly beloved celebrated his 29th birthday! Whoo hooo, Happy Birthday Nick! Well, what did we do celebrate this important life event you ask? We stayed home so Nick could play video games! A good friend of ours said that I was a good wife for letting him do this,and I thank them for that. It was actually pretty hard for me since I am a bit of a “go and do” type person. However, since we stayed in I was able to accomplish SO MUCH! Including a 2 hour shredding session with our new shredder. I shredded a whole bag of old bills and paper work that needed to go. It felt so good to be rid of that stuff!!! And yes I am in irrationally in love with the shredded! But I digress back to Nick’s birthday, here are a few pics of the day:

The Birthday Boy! Isn’t he CUTE!!

The Back to the Future Trilogy on Blueray!! What a surprise!!!

Nick smoked his own birthday hen, it looked pretty but sadly it was a little tough It was a good practice though!

 

Yellow cake, video games, phone calls from family, shredding, overcooked hen, and a spaghetti dinner what a birthday it was for Nick! Happy Birthday Sweetie . . .I LOVE YOU!!!!

PS- I would be reminisce if I did not wish a very Happy Birthday to Nicole, the sweet sister that was born one minute before my husband. Happy Birthday Nicole!

A Champion Christmas Sweater

Wow . . .So I took a bit of a long hiatus following the 30 Blogs of Me, but I am back now and feeling pretty festive. The Christmas season has snuck right up on me as usual. Though there will be no 12 Blogs of Christmas this year I can promise you several Christmas related blogs starting with this one!

This year I attended one of the best Christmas Parties ever, The Ugly/Tacky Christmas Sweater Party and yes I can now claim to be the first ever HR/Training Team Ugly/Tacky Christmas Sweater winner!!!

What does take to achieve this greatness do you ask? Well, let me just tell you . . .

1. You must have a truly Ugly Christmas Sweater. I would like to the thank the great folks at Christmas Vintage on EBay for selling me this gem. Nothing says Merry Christmas quite like fuzzy swans.

2. Accessorize! This is one instance where LESS is NEVER MORE! This outfit features a wonderfully awful necklace with giant Christmas light bulbs, jingle bell earrings, and some awesome reindeer antlers. I am also wearing red and white toe socks with flip flops. I know you cant’s see them in the pic but trust me I am wearing them!

3. Let your Mom help you! I would like to give a special thanks to my Mom for letting me borrow the very special turtle neck I am wearing. It features a hugging snowman and snow woman. I was told this really MADE the outfit.

4. Make your spouse dress up too! No one should be tacky alone. So naturally I dressed my dearly beloved up too Thanks for playing along Nick!

5. Don’t be afraid to have fun with it! It’s ugly, it’s tacky but it is ohhh so much fun to have an excuse to look bad! As they say . . .Go big or go home!!!

Follow these simple steps and I am sure that you can be an Ugly/Tacky Christmas Sweater Champion too!

PS- My sweater is available and it is a WINNER!