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• Dec. 25, 2009 - Christmas
• Dec. 24, 2009 - 1 more day!!
Till' Christmas!! Today is Christmas eve!! TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS!! Hope you have your shopping done!!!
Ten things I love about Christmas!!
1. The real reason of Christmas
2. Getting to see family
3. Decorating the house
4. Picking out the Christmas tree and decorating it
5. Making Christmas cookies
6. Watching Christmas movies
7. Reading Christmas books
8. Well, I do like the presents.....
9. Seeing peoples faces when they open the gifts from me
10. The holiday spirit!!
Post a comment and tell me what your ten favorite things about Christmas are!!
I hope you enjoyed my last day of my Christmas Countdown!!
Merry Christmas!!
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• Dec. 23, 2009 - 2 more days!!
Till' Christmas!! WOW!!
So, today I'm going to show you around my house so you can see what our houses looks like during Christmas!!!
Outside:
If you were to come the back way, this is what you would see!!
 (One door is to our guesthouse, the other door is to our house!)
Now your inside!! First is our dining room.
 (That's where our Noel thing is!!)
 (And the Fabric banner thingy thing!!)
 (Our Jesse tree)
 (A craft I did)
Now we are in the living room.
 (Our village that is on top of the piano)
 (On top of the bookshelf)
 (Christmas Cards)
 (Stocking and books)
 (Stockings)
(Of course, the Christmas tree!!)
Now, in the hallway!
 (That's it!!)
Now in my bedroom!
 (Sorry, the picture isn't the best!!)
I also have lights around my bed, but I didn't take a pic of them!!
So, that's most of our house at Christmas!!!
Hope you enjoyed today's Christmas Coundown!! Scroll down for other Christmas Countdown posts!! And PLEASE post comments!!
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• Dec. 22, 2009 - 3 more days!!
Till' Christmas!!!
Christmas Poems!!
Christmas Presents
Every year Grandma gets a tin of talcum powder.
She always says, ‘Ah my favourite!’
Even before she opens the wrapping
Grandpa always says, ‘Well, I know what’s in here.
Its two pairs of socks. Just what I wanted!’
This year, Aunti Vi had an umbrella in an umbrella-shaped parcel,
I mean, it looked just like an umbrella.
And, before Aunti Vi pulled the paper off,
She said to Mum, ‘It will match that new coat of mine.’
As for Mum and Dad, they just sat there and said,
'We’ve given each other a joint present this year
It’s a digital clock radio for our bedroom.’
Do you know, they didn’t even bother to wrap it up and put it under the tree!
At the end, when everything had been given out,
Mum said, ‘We mustn’t forget the gift-vouchers from Debbie and Jim.
We sent them a cheque for the same amount.
We always do.’
I call that a bit unimaginative, don’t you?
Maybe, when you come to think about it,
Grown-ups need Father Christmas far more than children do.
Anonymous (That's my little bits!! a.k.a S'more!)
A Christmas Tree
One little star on the top of the tree,
Two little presents underneath for me,
Three silver ropes twisted around the tree,
Four colored lights shining prettily,
Five shining balls flowing silvery.
Oh, what a sight for use to see!
(This is our Christmas Tree, I guess the lights are off...)
by anonymous
See the pretty snowflakes
Falling from the sky;
On the wall and housetops
Soft and thick they lie.
On the window ledges,
On the branches bare;
Now how fast they gather,
Filling all the air.
Look into the garden,
Where the grass was green;
Covered by the snowflakes,
Not a blade is seen.
Now the bare black bushes
All look soft and white,
Every twig is laden,
What a pretty sight!
 (This is at our house)
 (This is are Christmas tree!!)
Well, Hope you enjoyed today's Christmas Countdown!! Don't forget to scroll down for other Christmas Countdown posts!! And PLEASE Post commnets!!
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• Dec. 21, 2009 - 4 more days!!!
4 days till' Christmas!! And Jesus' b-day!!
For today, I'm going to show you how to make gifts that I made for my friends!! They are very easy to make!!
So, all you need to make this are some tolite paper rolls, wrapping paper, and goodies to put inside of it!!
So what you do is get a tolite paper roll and stuff it with all kinds of little goodies!! Here are some ideas!!
1. Lip gloss
2. Candy
3. Earrings
4. Bath fizzies
5. More candy!!
So, you just put it in the roll, (it is kinda hard to make everything stay in until you wrap it!) so then cut a piece of wrapping paper, and wrap it up!! I kind of like, scrunched the ends of the wrapping paper and then tied it with a ribbon!! I thought it looked cute!!
Hope you enjoyed today's Christmas Countdown!! Scroll down for other Christmas Countdown posts!!!
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• Dec. 20, 2009 - 5 more days!!
Only 5 more days till' Christmas!! And the birthday of Jesus Christ!!
So today I'm going to show you another Christmas craft!!
A noel banner type thing!!
 My Mom made this and we hung it on our wall!! You don't have to make it say "Noel" you can make it say whatever you want, like "Peace, or Love" So go here: Life in Grace if you want to make them!!
Don't forget to scroll down to see other posts of my Christmas Countdown!! Bye!!
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• Dec. 18, 2009 - 6 more days!!
Till' Christmas!! Less than a week!! It is also 6 days until the day Jesus Christ was born.
Today I'm gonna do a Christmas tag and a Christmas poll!!
So, here is my tag!!
1. What are your favorite Christmas cookies to make? Sugar cookies, then decorate them!!
2. Have you ever had a "White Christmas?" Yes, I think twice when I lived in Iowa, and maybe once when I lived here in TN!!
3. What is your favorite Christmas alubum? I really like the Aly and A.J one.
4.Do you have everyone's Christmas present? I don't have my older bro's or my Moms.
5. Have you ever gone caroling? Nope, but today I am going for the first time!!! = )
6. Stay at home or go somewhere for Christmas? Stay home
7. Is your birthday near a Holiday? No, but my younger bro's b-day is Christmas day!! And my Dad's is the day after!!
8. Do you have lights on your house? Yep!!
9. Do you have crazy Christmas decorations in your front yard, (Blow up santa's, giant snow globes, etc...)?
Nope!! But a few people near us do!!
10. Fudge or Cookies? Cookies!!
11. What are three things on you Christmas list? 1. CD's, 2. Sweaters, 3. A big calender
12. Is there always an orange in the bottom of your stocking? Yep!!
13. Do you have a traddition for Christmas eve? Yes, we always go to our Churchs candel light serveice then we come home, and our Grandparents come over and we have our tradditonial food, (Shrimp, humus, dip, stuff like that!) Then my grandfather reads "The night Before Christmas"
14. Favoriite Christmas book? See here: Christmas books
15. Who do you tag? Horsiebabe, Rabbitlover, Cherrystar and whoever else want's to do it!!
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Hope you enjoyed my 5th day of my Christmas Countdown!! Don't forget to scroll down for other Christmas Countdowns!!
Bye!!
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• Dec. 17, 2009 - 7 more days!!
Only 7 more days till' Christmas!!
Today I'm going to show you my fav Christmas books!!
Every year we get out a book rack and get all of our Christmas books out!! Here is a picture of what it looks like once we have finished putting them on the rack!
 We have TONS of Christmas books!! On the right side of the books there are Christmas movies.
I love all of these Christmas books, but I have a few that are my favorite!!!!
"Annikas' Secret Wish" By Beverly Lewis. This book is about an Amish girl who has a little brother that has to walk with a crutch. Every Christmas for desert they get a bowl of rice pudding. And in one bowl of pudding there is a "Lucky" almond. Everyone always wishes for it and this year, Annika gets it.
So, you'll have to read this book to find out the rest!! I really love this book, I also really like other books by Beverly Lewis.
My next favorite book.
 "The Legend of the Candy Cane" By Lori Walburg. This book is really good!! I love it!!
It tells us about the true meaning of the candy cane and of Christmas.
This next book is really great too.
"The House Without a Christmas Tree" By Gail Rock. This book is a true story about a girl who never has a Christmas tree because her Dad wishes (or demands) not to have one.
This one is very funny!!
"BOB" By Sandra Boynton.
This book is very funny!! It has great short little stories/poems in it!! And a Christmas lullaby in the back!! There are six stories in the book as you can see.
 This one is a classic Dr. Seuss Christmas book. "How the Grinch stole Christmas"
The Grinch, Sweet Cindy Lou who, Max the dog, and all of the who's make this story about a old Grinch who hates Christmas and try's to steal Christmas, great!!
 This is another classic Christmas story. "The Night Before Christmas" By Clement Moore. My Grandfather reads this to us every Christmas eve!!
 "The Story of Holly and Ivy" By Rumer Godden. This a very sweet and sad story of an orphan girl who goes to visit her Grandmother, but of course she doesn't really know her who Grandmother is or if she is even alive.
So those are probably my favorite Christmas books that we own!! Post a comment and tell me what your favorite Christmas books are!!
Hope you enjoyed my 4th day in my Christmas Countdown!! Don't forget to scroll down for other Christmas Countdown posts!!
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• Dec. 16, 2009 - 8 more days!!
Only 8 more days till' Christmas!!
So, if you need a last minute gift for someone, here are some ideas!! I have made all of these for people's gifts and they have loved them!!
1. A Christmas tree made of wrapping paper!!
I gave this to my Mom last Christmas!!
So what you do is make a cone out of green construction paper. Then you cut strips of Christmasy wrapping out, make as many as you think you need to cover your tree!! They don't need to be the exact same length because you are going to be layering them on the tree. After you have your strips, take a pencil and a strip, and curl the bottom of the paper around the pencil. Then take it of. This should give the strip of paper a curl at the bottom!! So just keep doing that to all of them!! Then just start layering them on the tree, you can use a glue stick or tape. I think that tape works a lot better!!
The next thing I make for my Dad, Grandfather and Uncles.
2. A hankie with a green and red heart!!
This is very easy if you know how to sew with a needle!!
First just but some plain white hankies. Then in one of the corners draw a heart. You can make it as big or as small as you like. Then, pick out the color thred you want and start sewing around the heart!! Last year I made about 14 of these!! LOL!!
3. The last thing is made out of Northen beans, glue and skittles!!
So what you do is get a package of white dried northen beans, glue and well skittles. Mix in northen beans (It depends on how much to put in on how many of these you are going to make!!) and then put the glue in, mix it together until it is sticky and kind of sticking together! Now, get a peice of wax paper and lay it out on a table, so that it won't stick (you may want to put news paper under it, this will be messy!!). Next take a hand full of the mixture and form it into a shape. I Made a candy cane, and a wreath, but you can make it however you want!! If you wat you can put a ribion on it like I did. Now take red and green skittles (you'll have to pick them out of the reular ones!!) and decorate with them on you creation, do it while the beans are still sticky so they will stick!!!
Well, that's it!! I hope you liked my 8th day of my Christmas Countdown!!! Scroll down for other Christmas Countdown posts!!
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• Dec. 15, 2009 - 9 more days!!
Today is my second day of my Christmas Countdown!!
For today I'm going to show you a few Christmas cookie recipes that we make almost every Christmas!
This first one is actually a new one for us!! It is a very delicious and rich cookie!!
Chocolate Truffle Cookies
4 oz. unsweetened chocolate
6 TB. butter
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips (divided)
1/2 cup flour
2 TB unsweetened cocoa power
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
about 4 dozen peppermint or mint Hershey's kisses
Melt unsweetened chocolate, butter, and 1 cup of chocolate chips in microwave or on stove top. Cool. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Beat sugar and eggs for 2 minutes. Beat in vanilla. Stir in chocolate mixture, then flour mixture, and finally the last cup of chocolate chips. Cover and chill until firm, at least 1 hour. This will look like pudding when you first refrigerate it. Heat over to 350. Shape into 1" balls and bake about 10 minutes. While you wait, unwrap the kisses. Immediately upon taking these out of the oven, stick a kiss in the middle and push down slightly. Finish cooling on a rack.
The second cookie's are jam diagonles, these are very good too!! Sorry, I don't have a picture of these!!
Jam Diagonals
1 stick butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
1/8 tsp. salt
1 1/4 c. flour
1/4 c. raspberry jam, or , blackberry is good too!
3/4 c. confectioners sugar
3-4 tsp. lemon juice
Mix butter, granulated sugar, vanilla, and salt until fluffy. Gradually stir in flour until blended. Divide dough into thirds. On lightly floured surface, with hands, roll each into a 9-inch rope. Place 3-inches apart onto lightly greased cookie sheet, or, better yet, a baking stone. With finger, make 1/2-inch depression down center of each rope. (Ropes will flatten to about 1-inch-wide strips.) Fill depressions with jam. Bake at 350 for 12-15 minutes, or until golden but certainly not crispy. Cool. Blend confectioners sugar and lemon juice until smooth. Drizzle in zig-zags over jam. When icing is set, cut diagonally into 1-inch cookies.
The next and last cookie isn't exactly a cookie. It is sort of like fudge but you don't bake it and it isn't soft like fudge!!
Chocolate Peppermint Bark
Ingredients:
2 16-oz. bags semi sweet chocolate chips
1 16-oz bag white chocolate chips
6-8 candy canes
Unwrap 6-8 candy canes and put in a ziploc bag. Wrap a towel around the bag and crush candy canes with a meat tenderizer or whatever works for you. This shouldn't be powdery; some small bits are good.
Melt two 16-ounce bags of semi-sweet chocolate chips. I do it in the microwave for one minute and then stir, and then at 30-second intervals, stirring after each 30 seconds until melted.
In a separate bowl, as soon as the chocolate chips are done melt, one 16 oz. bag of white chocolate chips in the same way.
When the chocolate chips are completely melted (and while you are in the process of melting the white chips), add the peppermint to the chocolate. Mix well and spread evenly on a cookie sheet. When the white chocolate is completely melted, drop by spoonfuls onto the chocolate and swirl with a knife to marbelize.
Put in fridge until hard. When it's completely hard, you can take a knife and break it up into fudge-sized pieces. That's it!
Hope you liked these recipes!!
Come back tomorrow for the 3rd day of my Christmas Count Down!! And if you didn't see my first day of this, scroll down!!
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• Dec. 14, 2009 - 10 more days!!
Hey!!
Today is the first day of my Christmas count down! So today I'm going to show you a Christmas craft! My Mom and I made these!! They are very simple to make!!
If you would like to learn how to make go here: Lifeingrace
She did them in different color paterns, but we did them in Christmas paterns! You can do them in what ever colors you want! We also made them a little thinner than she did.
So I hope you enjoyed my first day of Christmas Count Down!! Come back tomorrow for more!!
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• Dec. 14, 2009 - Only 10 days until.........
CHRISTMAS!!
So, I am going to do a count down to Christmas, everyday until Christmas day, I will have a post about Christmas, I might have a Christmas craft, Christmas recipes, Christmas tags, you know, stuff like that!!
So visit my blog everyday until Christmas for a new post!! I'll do today later this afternoon!!
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• Dec. 12, 2009 - Hi!!!
Hi everyone!!
For some weird reason my Christmas tree thing isn't working!! So I'm going to just leave it there and have my new posts up here!!!
I tried posting this entry yesterday, but HSB was being weird and it wouldn't do it!!
Last week we got our Christmas tree and we got in the SNOW!! 
some times we don't even get snow!! It was a lot of fun to get our tree in the snow! I've never done that..... We had a snowball fight!! SO FUN!! Here are some pics!!!
Hmmm.......... O.k. well for some reason my pictures are not loading .... well...... I guess I'll have to show pics some other time!!!
This morning we went to a Christmas parade! It was really good! I got lots of candy!!  We got snow really early for where I live!!
..........Okay, I don't really have anything else to write about....... Sooooo, Bye!!
Swimmerbug
P.S. I hope this post wasn't too boring!!
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• Dec. 4, 2009 - Christmas Tree
• Dec. 1, 2009 - I stole this tag form some one!! He, he, he!!!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper!!!
2. Real tree or Artificial? Real tree!! But I do have a mini purple fake tree in my room!!
3. When do you put up the tree? Um... Maybe like three weeks before Christmas. I'm not really sure..
4. When do you take the tree down? Idk
5. Do you like eggnog? I've never actually had it!!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? Hmmm... Idk..
7. Hardest person to buy for? My oldest bro or my Mom
8. Easiest person to buy for? My youngest bro
9. Do you have a nativity scene? We have alot of different one's all mixed together!! Lol
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail!!
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? I like all my Christmas gifts
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? Oooo, that's hard!! Probably... "How the Grinch stole Christmas" as a cartoon and etheir "White Christmas" or "Christmas Story" with real people!!
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? It is usally different every year!!
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? Kind of! Once when I was little I was going to give my older brother a ruler I found around our house!! But I decided not too!! LOL!!
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Mashed potatos!!!!
16. Lights on the tree? Of course!!!
17. Favorite Christmas song? Jingle bells, silent night and... Well I like them all!!!
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay! And It is my little bro's b-day too!! And my Dad's is the day after Christmas!!
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? I think so!! Dasher, dancer, prancer, vixin, comet, cupid, doner blitzen, AND.... Rudulph!!!!
20. Angel on treetop or star? Star
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or morning? Morning
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? When you can't think of anything to get people!!
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? Hmm, IDK!!
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? Didn't I just answer this one????!!!!! Yeah I just looked!! #15!!
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? CD's, movies, you know all that stuff, nothing very big!
26. Who is most likely to respond to this? ??
27. Who is least likely to respond to this? ???
I tag: Horsiebabe, NaeNut and whoever else wants to do it!!
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• Nov. 26, 2009 - Happy Thanksgiving!!
• Nov. 20, 2009 - I stole this tag from somewhere!!! = )
This is a tag for how girly I am...
WHAT YOU HAVE:
[x I think so!! ] You own over 10 bottles of nail polish
[] You own a designer purse
[] You own perfume that cost over $60
[]You had/have fake nails
[] You have more body/hair products than you can use
[] Your pet is a chihuahua/Pomeranian/Yorkshire Terrier/Siamese/Shih Tzu
[I wish!] You have clothes/shoes/accessories for your pet
[x] You have enough clothes to cover an entire refugee camp. Probably!!
[x] You have enough pictures to create your own wallpaper. (probably)
[x part of it's pink!] A pink comforter, carpeting, walls or sheets
Total: 4
DO YOU:
[] Spend more time at the mall than you do at home/work? That would be cool!!
[] Have a hair color that is not natural
[x] Have "blond moments"
[x]Buy stuff because it's awesome and then never wear it 
[] Constantly keep your phone at your side (If I had one!)
[x] Dance around in your room when nobody else is home (and sing!)
[] Have a name for your car
[] Know what celebrity is dating who and who broke up this week
[] Refuse to go out in public without makeup
[] Prefer to be called "princess"
Total: 3
DO YOU ADORE:
[x] Makeup
[] Glitter
[x] The Color Pink
[x] Jewelry
[] Mirrors
[] Chick flicks
[x] Shoes
[x] Rainbows
[] Unicorns
[x] Disney Movies
[] Candles
[x] Flowers
[x] Stuffed Animals
[x] Purses
Total: 9
DO YOU SHOP AT:
[] Coach
[] Forever 21
[] Victoria's Secret
[] Guess
[x] Claires
[] Express
[] Delias
[] Hollister
[] American Eagle
[] Abercrombie & Fitch
[] Aeropostale
Total: 1
DO YOU SAY:
[x] Whatever
[x] Oh my gosh/goodness
[] Hun
[] Fugly
[] That's hot
[] Dunzo
[] Darling
[] Psh
[] Cutie
[] Hottie
[] Skank
[] Totally
[] For Sure
[] Fabulous
Total: 2
Do You Read:
[] Cosmopolitan
[] Glamour
[] Marie Claire
[] Elle Girl
[] Teen Vogue
[] People
[] Us Weekly
[] Star
[] Self
[] PerezHilton.com
[] Dlisted.com
[] 17online.com
[x] people.com Does the magazine count?
[] usmagazine.com
[] popsugar.com
[] Pink Is The New Blog.com
Total: 1
o You Love These:
[] Legally Blonde
[] Elizabethtown
[] Mean Girls
[] Now & Then
[] The Notebook
[] A Walk to Remember
[] Sweet Home Alabama
[] Where the Heart is
[] Just my luck
[] John Tucker Must Die
[] Center stage
[] Bring it On
[] How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
[] Mona Lisa Smile
[]My Girl
Total: 0
o you really enjoy...
[] America's Next Top Model
[] Project Runway
[] Desperate Housewives
[] The Simple Life
[] 8th & Ocean
[] Grey's Anatomy
[]The O.C.
[] Laguna Beach/The Hills
[] Nip/Tuck
[] Gilmore Girls
[] Degrassi
TOTAL: 0
COUNT UP HOW MANY YOU CHECKED. MULTIPLY IT BY 2
That's your girly percentage. 40% THAT'S IT?? Oh, well....... i'm not a tom boy though!!!
Anyone Can do it!!!
Swimmerbug
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• Nov. 16, 2009 - Poll
• Nov. 15, 2009 - What we did yesterday.......
This is what we did yesterday afternoon on a beautiful fall day.
We went hiking in the Smokey's with my Grandparents. The Smokey's are only about 45 minutes away! It was a very easy trail that we went on and there are small waterfalls on one side of the trail.
One waterfall
Here is another
This is me looking at one
Here is an up close pic of one
We passed quite a few horseback riders (Sorry it's blury!)
That's it!! We were running out of batteries so we couldn't take to may pics!! Bye!!
SWIMMERBUG
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• Nov. 11, 2009 - Happy Veterans day!!
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