Dining room decorations

Here is the pretty dinning room all finished being decked out for the holidays.

Decorating the Tree

Ben, Heather, Carlie, Ray and I spent the evening decorating the tree in the Family room and having cookies and hot chocolate. I love having the tree decorated but, I hate spending all day by myself to do it. It is much more fun with help. This tree is 12 feet tall. I know cool huh!. The room it is in is two stories tall, so it would look really funny to have a 6 foot tree in there. It takes a really tall ladder and daughter to reach all the tall spots.

Ray gets to put the top on the tree, he also gets to bring it up from the basement and fluff it out. He does not do anymore of the decorating then that.

Cynthia

On the 4th day of Christmas

On the 4th day of Christmas my true love gave to me. A new washer and dryer.

The door bell rang at 7:20am, I was sound asleep. It was the only day that I was going to be able to sleep in for weeks. I was a little confused by the RC Wiley delivery man that was standing there telling me that he had come to deliver a washer and dryer. I had no idea they were coming. Ray had arranged a "surprise" for me, they were supposed to deliver these babies at 1pm while I was working at the temple (which was closed, if dh had had the foresight to check with me) I didn't know where to put them so I said, "let's just put them in the basement laundry room". Which seemed the best solution at the time. After the delivery guys left. I called Ray and explained the early delivery, and the fact that we didn't have an external vent for the new dryer that it required. Needless to say we spent the evening, with the help of a younger friend, moving the old set from the upstairs to the basement, and the new set from the basement to the upstairs.

When I saw the condition of the upstairs laundry room, after 14 years of living. I decided not to put the new set in until I painted. First thing the next morning I set out to Lowe's to get some paint to spruce it up with. I spent all day prepping and painting. (this was not included in the holiday planning) . I painted it "sparkling sage" kinda of a blue/green.

It looks wonderful and the new washer and dryer work fantastic.
Thanks Ray
Cynthia

Daily December

Ali Edwards is doing her Daily December album on her blog, here http://http//aliedwards.typepad.com/

I have already created the outline for the album and have begun taking pictures
Here is day 1 and 2 pictures.

Day 2: I am trying to make a cd of my favorite Christmas music to give to my friends and family. I started it last year and am just finishing it this year.

Day 1: getting out the decorations. I am still working on these.

Thanksgiving

TRay playing golf on the wii

All of us watching them playing

Ray slicing the Turkey

The Pies, yummy

Wow, has it been a week

I am no good at this. I can't seem to blog something once a day, or week. I will try to be better.
Last week Heather came to spend the weekend. Ben tore up there bathroom and did a total redo. New tile, vanity, sink top and paint, the works. Michael and Kendra came to visit us on Friday. We went to see the new Bond movie on Saturday. We all enjoyed dinner together on Sunday. I was made a Mia Maid advisor and was released from Cubmaster. I think that about sums up last week. I will have to post some more blessings from last week later.
Cynthia

This week I am grateful for

My creation
Originally uploaded by cynthia brunetti

The tree outside my back patio door, it is losing it's leafs and I will miss it during the winter.
My Street and my town.
My scrapbook room
The Savior
The Temple
My ulcer medicine
Hair Color
Lunch with good friends

I will be posting something I am grateful for, for 25 days of November. I plan on makeing a small mini book of them when I am done.

Hope you have a grateful day.

Cynthia

The street I live on

I took this picture this morning after I returned home from voting. I love the street we live on. It has such a quaint small town feeling to it. The leaves on the trees have begun to fall and winter is beginning to set in.

Joining the blog world

Well I finally did it created a blog that is public. I hope I am up to the challenge that this is going to be for me. Wish me luck!