Sunday, December 18, 2011

South GA Christmas Decor...Plantations, Pines, and Mesh!

When you walk in our front door we have a entry way table. On that table I have a mixture of things. A tinsel tree, a gold reindeer, and a tray full of large colorful ornaments.




The dining room is full of golds, bronzes, chocolate brown, and a hint of burnt orange. I still haven't bought my 9 ft slimline tree with white lights, but maybe next year? So instead, I hung a plain green wreath from the chandelier and spruced it up a bit. I filled up some jars and a bowl with ornaments and set out my Nanny's precious Nutrcracker ornament that I inherited. :) It is one of the most special things in our house.





The office is very woodsy. We have a tree with feathers, sticks, burlap, and antler balls. This tree is a work in progress. I have found several new ornaments from a little shop downtown that I still need to get when they go on sale. I would also like to use burlap ribbon next year. I wish I had room to do a HUGE plantation type tree in our house. It is my favorite!


Our mudroom has simple green wreaths hanging from the little shelf. Didn't Matt and Daddy do a fabulous job on our mudroom?


I love these tables in our living room. Each one is different. The apothecary jar of colorful ornaments and moss balls mixed with ornaments make me so hapy!! I left up the sticks from a party I had in November, I just couldn't take them down, I loved them there.







Our living room tree is all lime and red, with a litle bit of white. Most of these ornaments come from cute little shops downtwon or from my mom. We get each other a new matchign ornament each year. The white sparkly ones are from my Nanny's tree. They were always my favorite to put on the tree growing up and they are still very special to me. I tied some ornaments into garland this year and also into the wreath. Everyone is very surprised that I love colored lights for the living room. I always have!






Our two guest rooms and the hallway between them are very simple. I have our nativity set in our guest room. The hallway has silver and gold ornaments in a jar and there is a small gilver tinsel tree in the bathroom. Our other guest room has a birdcage filled with ornaments.





Our kitchen tree is red and white peppermint themed. We also have several pretty Christmas serving pieces set around.








The tree in our bedroom is silver, black, and green. Our bathroom tree is snowflake themed. :)




The bonus room tree is our sentimental tree. It holds all of our sentimental and hand made ornaments. We watch all of our Christmas movies up here and do our wrapping and I LOVE it!






Each window on the outside of our house has a wreath with a red bow. Our door has an ornament screen hanger on it. I am going to make a Christmas wreath soon though!






Saturday, December 17, 2011

December...filled with JOY and CHEER!

Wing A (some of the teachers...Stingerville teachers past and present) came over to celebrate Christmas and my former support teacher that now works at the hospital. We had lots of fun just sitting around, eating delicious food that I forgot to get an after picture of, and laughing! I love the ladies that I teach with!














Thursday, December 15, 2011

Glitter, pins, bows, and vests....

although we didn't win prizes for the ugliest...we had the best time at the 1st annual ugly sweater party. My camera was dead, but I got a few iPhone pics! Brecca took a bunch though...if only she would let me get my hands on them! There were 8 couples in all there...I think about 12 were invited. I'm already on the lookout for our outfits for next year!


I laughed so hard when we drove up and their lawn was covered in blow up decorations.


I loved the backdrop for the "photo booth" and the solo cups and lights. I also loved the mix-matched plates and napkins!





I ended up with best dirty santa gift. I will proudly add this sequined nutcracker to my collection!


It was a great night of fun with friends and great, LOUD, music! :)



Sunday, December 11, 2011

Red Nosed Fun and the Red Nose Run!

Our brand new fundraiser this year turned out to be a HUGE success!!! So proud to be a member of such an outstanding organization, Thomasville Junior Service League! We arrived at Thomas University when it was still dark and oh, so very cold! We set up, got on our antlers :), sang along to Christmas music, and rode golf carts to our locations. Afterwards, we went back and handed out SUPER CUTE goody bags, t-shirts, and awards! I loved every minute! Several of the teachers from my school participated, including my Principal and Assistant Principal! I LOVED seeing those green shirts go by! We ended up having about 250 runners/walkers sign up!

All of these incredible pictures were taken by Ali McKay (my lovely neighbor and league member) and the entire gallery can be seen on www.jslthomasville.com. I tried to add ones of my fellow teachers.











Everyone said that the course was beautiful and that they loved looking at all the Christmas decorations. I can't wait for next year!




Friday, December 9, 2011

Merry Memories

Tuesday night was the Troupe Christmas Show!! AMAZING!!! I met up with my friends, Robin and Elizabeth for dinner at Jonah's. Then we walked over to the Municipal Auditorium for the show!




Proud of my hubby for his award!!


I did finish my second gifted class on Thursday! YAY! We brought food, and ate dinner while we presented our webquests. Two things that will always remind me of good times in gifted. Betsy always on her celebrity websites...always. And Leslea and her Sonic drinks. It never failed, I would leave class craving a diet vanilla coke.





Our friends Jennifer and Jeremy came to Thomasville for Victorian Christmas. We walked around, had fried oreos, shopped, and then rode around and looked at Christmas lights and scary Santa's!