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Friday Favorites

Are you totally stuffed from eating all day yesterday? As you are reading this, my mom and I are out shopping and have been over night. Lots of walking everywhere, so holiday calories totally don’t count for me, right? If you are planning to go out today, you can read my tips from last year. Don’t be a noob.

Favorite Christmas Song: Sarah McLachlan’s version of O Little Town of Bethlehem is absolutely beautiful.

Favorite Float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade: Obviously there are a ton of fancier ones, but I love seeing Snoopy every year! As long as I see him, I am happy!

Favorite Decor in my House: Our Christmas stuff is up!!! I worked hard on Monday to get it all out. Here are a few areas….

Favorite Pictures of Gracie and Mac:

Favorite Moment: Going to my dad’s Wednesday night to see some family that came in town from Pittsburgh. Both of my parents were only children, so my dad’s cousins are our closest cousins. Charlie and Terri came through Alabama on their way to a dog show and we got to play with their award winning Papillons! He had five that were puppies, the picture below is Victory. I really want one! They always have the most beautiful Papillons I have ever seen! One of the ones with them is 18 years old and I remembered when she was a puppy. It was so good seeing them, as it has probably been about 10 years since I have!

Charlie and Victory. Want to come home with me Victory? His sister Calista was SUPER sweet too. Ahhh puppies!!!

Also, my dad had all his Christmas decor up. He plays Santa every year around Christmas time and visits hospitals and other non-profit children homes to bring gifts and give a little hope. Of course his house looks like the North Pole. I loved all the elves that looked like they were decorating the tree!Tallest tree ever.

Friday Funnies Holiday Style:

November 28, 2014 by Nadine

favorites, Halloween, holiday

All Things Halloween

I wanted to link up with Melissa a few days this month for her blogging challenge, because she is awesome. Duh. Today’s prompt is “must watch Halloween cartoons.” In my opinion, there is only one must watch for me, and that is The Great Pumpkin.

Can you really call that a post? No! So let me go a few steps further with some more Halloween favorites!

My favorite must watch Halloween themed movie is Hocus Pocus.

My favorite childhood Halloween memory – When I was in elementary school, my parents would take my sister and I out trick or treating. We would start in our neighborhood, then head over to my Grandma Jerry’s neighborhood and finish by stopping at Grandma Josie’s house so that she could see our costumes too. Tracy and I always scored a ton of candy by going to so many houses. Since we lived right outside Pittsburgh, sometimes it would actually be snowing when we were out! Crazy, right? We would just wear sweat pants under our costumes so we weren’t cold.

There used to be this house in the very first neighborhood we lived in that terrified the crap out of me. It was next door to my great aunt’s house and the guy would dress up like an ape and jump out of his house as you were approaching his porch. I remember begging my parents to skip it every single year. Every year they told me not to be rude and that I had to go.

Tell me you wouldn’t be creeped out by a huge ape when you are five!

My favorite adult Halloween memory is probably the year that I dressed up like a witch and Chris dressed up like ….well a mix between a Star Trek character and Kanye.

Chris dj’d at our friend’s annual Halloween party, as he does every year. We just had a lot of fun and the party had a great turn out! These are just some of the people that were there to help set up when the party first started:

This party was just a few weeks before we got married. Maybe that is why is sticks out the most to me?!

My favorite Halloween candy is the mallow cream pumpkins.

What are some of your Halloween favorites?

October 21, 2014 by Nadine