A final glance...

December Daily 2010

A trip to White's Nursery for their Poinsettia Festival with our besties Brian & Sarah

The twins Popsicle stick ornaments

Sunday's with Santa at the VMSM

Gingerbread House destruction

Book nerd alert!

My 29th birthday

Macy's Believe

Teacher gifts

Flurries!

Braden's class party

Actual inches on the ground!

New Santa hats

First Baby Bulls practice-YMCA B Ball

Little gamers

Connor's class party

Neighbor gifts

Yankee Candles-this just makes me laugh

Christmas Eve morning

Backside of Christmas Eve-reindeer food & Christmas morning

Christmas

More gift reactions

Dec 26th-though I usually stop at the 25th-our record 14" deserved a mention

as well as our frantic trip to the ER!

DD 2010: Pre-Dec Pages & Dec.1st

I'll be making these posts weekly not daily. I put the finishing touches and the journaling on the pages each day but only order prints about once a week-I'm not a print at home kind of girl!
My December Daily started November 26th-the day after Thanksgiving, the day our tree goes up. I am so glad it does-the last week of November this year was jammed packed with holiday festivities for us! We'd seen four Santa's prior to December 1st!

November 26th

On the left is pics of each of the twins decorating the tree as well as a shot of my three guys and a shot of me and the boys-all were printed wallet size and put in a cut down to size baseball card sleeve sheet. On the right is the tree.

November 27th

Visiting Santa at the Ice Palace at MacArthur Center
November 28th
On the left is a 4 x 6 collage print (Walgreen's) of various photo's from our day visiting Santa's Wonderland at Bass Pro Shops. On the right is the photo Bass Pro took of the boys with Santa.

November 30th
On the left are two wallet sized photo's in a collage 4 x 6 print of the twinkies & Mommy and the twinkies & Daddy on the parade route at Town Center Virginia Beach Virginia. On the right is a shot of my little guys posing by the giant Town Center gift while waiting for the parade to begin.

December 1st

We mail out our Christmas Cards on December 1st every year. I made a "pocket" and you can pull our card out by tugging on the believe tag. Opposite this page I will probably place a photo of the boys with their new LEGO Advent calendar.

Supplies used:

Scenic Route Roxbury Collection

Cosmo Cricket Jolly By Golly Collection

Elle's Studio holiday tags & numbers

December Daily 2010

Just like last year my December Daily is 6 x 8 and goes from November 26th (the day the tree goes up) through December 25th.
Unlike last year I stuck with a "set" instead of a random grab of any and all Christmas papers and embellishments that I had on hand. Just for something different.
This years DD is made up of Scenic Route's Roxbury Collection papers, Cosmo Cricket's Jolly by Golly papers, stickers and chipboard elements and Elle's Studio Christmas Journaling Tags, Holiday Story Tags, Christmas Tiny Tags, Christmas Journaling Circles and Vintage Mix & Match Numbers.

The cover

Nov 26th-all set and ready for a vertical 4 x 6 shot of the tree!

Finally complete!

My December Daily is finally complete! I finished it on May 31st so that I could say I was done before June! How sad is it that the only page I had left in it to complete was December 25th? I am so happy it's completed and I already can not wait to to work on DD 2010 in November.

December Daily

My book is not complete yet-I still have to finish days 20-25 but here are some shots of some of my early December Daily pages. I really liked doing this project of Ali Edwards this year-it was a first for me and will absolutely become a holiday tradition!

This is one of my "pre" pages it's undated and happened prior to Dec 1st...it's a shot of the twins with the tree all decorated-the were so proud of their handiwork!

Another "pre" page (and I just inserted these into the front of my book) a picture of the twins seeing Santa at MacArthur Center.
Day 1-an envelope with a copy of our Christmas cards that went out on December 1st

Day 2-a picture & story of the boys experience shopping for each other

Day 3-the twins exchanged cards with their pals in their playgroup this year-here is a copy of their cards which they sent out on December 3rd

Day 4- Play date at Kangaroo Jacs

Day 5-Santa at Bass Pro Shop's "Santa's Wonderland"

Day 7-Garden of Lights & Ice skating at MacArthur Center

Day 8-Me, the birthday girl

Day 9-Gingerbread play date

Day14-One of the pages from our Christmas vacation at Great Wolf Lodge

Day 17-Braden's Class Holiday Party

Day 18-Connor's Class Holiday Party

Day 19-Copies of their letters to Santa

December Daily & Holiday Decorating...

'Tis the season!
My major undertaking this year is the December Daily scrapbook/journal project I stumbled across on Ali Edwards blog http://aliedwards.typepad.com/_a_/december-daily-2009-.html
I am really excited about this fun way to collect and preserve our holiday traditions and memories!

Here is a look at my cover...

And a peek at the pages inside!

The boys at age three (nearly four sniff, sniff...) are very excited about Christmas this year and their enthusiasm is highly contagious! Here are a few shots of my little cuties helping decorate for the holidays:

Testing the lights...they were all lit so..."Ta-Da!"

Posing in front of the decorated tree in their little Santa hats...
Outside with this years new inflatables

The house all lit up!