Santa came early to our house!

That's right, we were extra good this year so Santa decided to come early!

Well..that may not be completely true, but it sounded good at least.

We celebrated Christmas at our house yesterday with Seth's family because we will be in Texas for the actual Christmas day.  Seth's mom, dad and sister came over and brought lots of goodies!  I'm so excited for the gifts I received that I'm so glad they all liked what Seth and I gave them.

Here are a couple of my favorite items that I got yesterday:

1.  Luxery Plush foot duvet's...fancy name, huh?  They are seriously the most soft and warm slippers I've ever put my foot into.  Seriously. Go get yourself a pair, but you gotta wait until they are in stock.  They're all sold out right now!  You can find them here.

2. Tory Burch sunglasses.  Oh man, am I excited for these.  My expensive pair of Ray Ban's got taken at a Braves game this past summer and I've been stuck with $10 dollar Target sunglasses since then.  Not that there is anything wrong with an inexpensive pair of sunglasses, but I really LOVED my polarized lenses.  And now I have them again, except better and more stylish than my last pair! I'm thinking about slowly saving up for a pair of TB flats...we'll see.

I also got a personalized chip and dip platter to match the colors of my kitchen and with my initial in the dip holder!!! Logan painted it for me!  I love it.

I am truly blessed to have such wonderful, loving in-laws who treat me like their own daughter.  A lot of people can't say that about theirs. I even have friends who cringe when they mention theirs...so I am extremely lucky. 

Here are a few photos from our time together:

 She's a momma's girl.

 They just celebrated their 25 year anniversary!

 We just celebrated our 1/2 year anniversary!

Seth got some great loot as well..his favorites were a ball hopper (if you don't know what that is, just google it) for when he plays tennis, Rockband 3 with the new keyboard, and a couple tennis shirts..yeah...no surprise there..he got lots of tennis related things.  Including a jumbo pack of tournagrip.

We had a great time..now the next thing on our list:  TEXAS!
 We are leaving tomorrow after Seth gets off work to drive to Texas.  Should be fun with two cats and a dog all in the same car. ha!  More like a zoo..

Well I'm thinking it's time for a Sunday nap.  Those are the best..

Ta ta!

Then Sings My Soul Book Review

I just finished reading the book Then Sings My Soul by Robert J. Morgan.  Have y'all ever sang a hymn in church and wondered about the story behind the hymn? If so, this book is definately for you. I grew up singing hymns and so when I saw this book, I knew I had to get it. 

The contents of the book is awesome. It is divided into Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Patriotic, and other favorites. I definately turned right to the Christmas section first.  Something even better about this book is that it also has the written music to accompany it! I played a little piano long, long ago, but I'm pretty sure I can play all these songs if I got my hands on a piano. This book would be great to sing hymns as a family, or even use as a small devotional to learn about the background of songs that are so important to a Christian (or more traditional Christian).  The pages look rustic and worn which is really neat since it contains so much history and I absolutely would reccomend this book to anyone! It also has the year that each song was written and I am thinking about typing up some Christmas hymns along with their history as little Christmas gifts.   Great book for those history lovers out there!



There are so many well known songs such as "Joy to the world" "Jesus paid it all" "Great is thy faithfulnes" "The Star Spangled Banner" and "Amazing Grace".  So not only does it have hymns, but also lots of other song such as "My Country 'Tis of thee" and "America, the beautiful".


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What I'm loving Wednesday

Goodness, Christmas is sure sneaking up on me!! I can't believe it's next week!!

I've had a pretty cruddy day, so I am glad to have this to lift my spirits. I know that even if I do have a bad day, there is always something to be grateful for. Thank you, Jesus, for reminding me of that.

1. I'm loving that I got an early Christmas present from hubby:

Y'all. That is a 5 gallon bucket of Chick-fil-a pickles. If you know me, you know i LOVEEEEE pickles.  Especially ones from CFA.  I was SOOO excited when he lugged this huge bucket in from his jeep.  I'm sure some of you are wanting to throw up right now, but I am so excited.  Now, when I got to CFA, I don't have to ask for extra pickles, I can just bring my own! ;)

2. I'm loving that we are trekking to Texas on Monday.  I haven't seen a lot of my family since our wedding (and that's been over 6 months ago) and so I cannot wait to spend the holidays with them.  Also, I get to meet sweet Baby Kie!!

3. I'm loving our new kitten, Claire.  We started out by fostering her, and of course fell in love. She is the sweetest little thing. She purrs when we even walk in the room...you don't even have to touch her! So that's half of our present to each other is her.  And it was a good choice, if you ask me. We love her to death and Huey does too. They play all day long.  So cute.

4. I'm loving that this weekend we are having Seth's family over for Christmas. Since we'll be in Texas for the actual day, they are coming over to celebrate and exchange gifts with us. I am excited to give them our gifts. I think they are going to love them.  Seth has to work on Saturday so that's why they are coming to us..otherwise we would have loved to go to their house, but that's okay! I love hosting people in our wonderful home...

5. I'm loving these shoes...I am thinking I may actually start saving up some money for a pair..I've NEVER spent that much on a pair of shoes, but they are so cute and would look lovely with my new Tory Burch sunglasses that I'm getting for Christmas... :)  I especially love the cheetah print ones.

Well, I am wrapping up a few more Christmas goodies, and then off to bed! Tomorrow will be spent cleaning up, doing a tiny bit more last minute shopping, and spending the afternoon with my wonderful husband! My friend, Alli teaches high school theatre and her production is tomorrow night, so we're heading over to that in the evening.

Happy Wednesday!