View from my couch...

Relaxing by a warm fire in my home!
Enjoying my Christmas decorations!

And of course my sweet doggies!

Christmas Tree!

Getting the Christmas tree is always so exciting to me!! It's the true beginning of the season for me! That and also the beginning of the Christmas music on the radio!

We found the perfect place last year to get our tree so we headed back to the same place this year!

The Hammarlunds!

I missed getting the picture of the Mr. with the tree over his right shoulder! But I did catch him putting it in the stand!


Our tree!

Our live garland! That I'm pretty much obsessed with!

Christmas scene in the living room!

Is your tree up? Have you decorated your house? I did wait until after Thanksgiving! :)

Thanksgiving 2010!

Thanksgiving has come and gone!

It was wonderful!

The hosts!
Part of the table decorations!

Another decoration

Watching the National Dog Show with my two doggies!

Us with the Mr.'s first turkey...which by the way I ate, and I don't eat turkey! It was so GOOD!

HoneyBaked Ham! My favorite!!!

GIVE THANKS!

Yummy desserts!

With my handsome husband!!

Thanksgiving Break in iPhone Pics!

Catch up with yall later, but here are some pictures from my phone from the break!:

Lucy girl helping me clean!


Got my hair done...straightest I've ever had my hair!



Turkey time!

Turkey time!

Turkey brine time!

The pumpkin pie I made! :)

Our place cards!

LOVE my sweet husband!

Sweet brother-in-law and sister-in-law!

Lucy girl!

SOO tired after hosting her first Thanksgiving!

I love our new tree skirt!

Our tree!

Live garlind!

Whole scene!

LOVE our tree! REAL trees are the way to go!

Christmas card holder I made.

House DIVIDED! UGA vs. TECH!

Thankful Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Wow, I can't believe it's Thanksgiving! This year has flown by so fast!!

I have so many things to be thankful for!!:

First of all, my husband! I'm thankful for him! He truly is just the BEST! I love our little family! I'm also thankful for our families!

Our beautiful home that we bought this year! We love being homeowners!

Our sweet pets! They just complete our family!!! I'm so thankful we added Ethel to our family! Lucy loves being a big sister to Ethel!

My job! I love going to work everyday! I love the children that I get to teach everyday.

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with everyone you spend the holiday with! I'm also thankful for this blog! :)

Thanksgiving Eve!

Thanksgiving Eve!

My sweet husband will be using this to make our YUMMY turkey tomorrow! I cannot wait to try it, even though I don't eat turkey, I'll try a bite of his!

Elf on A Shelf!

We have started Elf on the Shelf in my classroom!

My kids LOVE it! Yes, they are in 5th grade and don't really believe in Santa but they LOVE it!!!

If you haven't heard of this wonderful book please go here!

My class named our elf, Charlie! I thought that was a super cute name!

I'll keep you updated on what Charlie does in our classroom, and where he appears after returning from the North Pole each night!

Standards Based Christmas Tree!

Greetings from Mrs. H's classroom!

I decided I wanted to put up a tree this year in my classroom. My sweet mother-in-love found a perfect tree for my classroom! It's the PERFECT size! So, I brought it in today and set it up! (I know, it's a bit early, but these 2 days before break are torture for the kids, so I thought I would make it fun!)

Our tree is filled with the Georgia Performance Standards! I actually made a ribbon of all the standards that will be taught in December in our classroom! And all the homemade ornaments are standards based! The kids loved making the ornaments even though they are math problems and grammar on them! I used my lovely CRICUT to make the ornaments for them to write on!