Tangie's Blog

Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful New Year's Eve with just our little family last night. We made lot's munchies for dinner like we have over at Dave's dad's house on Christmas Eve for dinner--we drove our new cars (we got for Christmas) all over the house and kept crashing them under the couch--was too fun! Then we had "rest time" Dave and I watched some CSI and Samantha watched a movie in our room (that is a treat for her!) while we rested until 10. Then we had nummy ice cream sundaes and played a game we got for Christmas called "In a Pickle" (I highly recommend it, it was SUPER FUN!!). Then at about 3 minutes to midnight we turned the ol' tube on to watch the ball drop in New York--then ran outside with our crackers and noise makers! (A tradition in Mesa--no one seems to do it here, I'm sure we woke a few people up--too bad for them!) It was a fabulous evening!

My favorite Picture of the evening! :)

Samantha surprised us by making cute table settings and menus for each of us! Dave and I also tried (and conquered I might add) to make spinach artichoke dip like they have at El Paso BBQ Company (one of my favorite restaurants)! OH MY was it delicious--not to mention Dave made his famous homemade tortilla chips to go with it! Mmmmmmm!!!!

 

I also realize it's a bit late and somewhat anti-climatic but here are some of my Christmas decor pictures :) I've still got to blog about Christmas but thought I'd post these anyway!

Thanks Stacers!

My friend sent this to me, it cracked me up! Thought I'd share some Christmas cheer.

It's begining to look a lot like Christmas...

No pictures of course...but we've got the tree up and lights outside and I even went so far as to buy wrapping paper! ;)

Needing some inspiration?

Well if you feel ambitious you could always check out these houses! Holy Moly!

We Decided to get a Head Start! :)

We cleaned the house absolutely spotless, there isn't even a sock out of place! We listened to Christmas music all day and got things in order to put up the tree tomorrow! We're really enjoying our "big weekend" together! Dave for SURE starts his new contract on Tuesday, we are soooooooo excited for him, but we'll miss him too! We're used to having him around all the time, and I'm going to miss having him at the office. But! It's all good! SO HAPPY! I feel so blessed. We'll tackle the outside lights on Monday, I guess our new neighborhood is the "let's buy a hot chocolate, drive around and look at Christmas lights" neighborhood! WOW lol that is, in my mind, reserved for places like the Foothills and Scottsdale, ummm not my little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere hee hee! It will be fun I'm really excited.

Thought I'd share some of my Christmas MUST HAVES! I'll share more all this week!

These are the four staples of my holiday season, just can't live without 'em! Well I mean I could of course....but it just wouldn't be the same holiday season for me!