this week {12.27 to 1.2}

~ we tried to regain control of our house. several times ~

~ the four of us went shopping at rack room and target ~

~ we took down the christmas decorations and got everything put back up in the attic ~

~ we went bowling for sherry's birthday and out to eat at charanda's ~

~ i worked on setting up my calendar and contacts information in google ~

~ we subscribed to rhapsody ~

~ i shopped at wal-mart ~

~ we hosted friends for a bowl game & new year's eve celebration ~

~ carolina lost their bowl game against florida state ~

~ i added some creative touches to my christmas binder which i plan to use in future years ~

~ i put together an everyday organizational binder ~

~ we rang in the new year ~

~ we ate black eyed peas and collard greens at matt's parents' house on new year's day ~

~ we planned to go to ikea and then changed our minds and decided to have a lazy day ~

this is the final *this week* post

this week {adios}

i wanted to make an *official* announcement about the end of my this week posts. i have no idea if anyone actually read these and they were, honestly, done for my own benefit. i was always very late posting them, mainly because i'm typically several weeks behind in uploading & editing photos to include in the posts. i am very grateful that i did this in 2010 and think it's a wonderful documentation of our everyday life. my goal is to have those posts printed into a blog book, which is one of the things on my http://chroniclesofasouthernscrapper.blogspot.com/2010/07/32-32.html list. however, i've grown a bit tired of writing down all of those little things.

i still like the idea of documenting my everyday life on some level. for 2011 i think i'm going to move to a monthly post. i am brainstorming some ways to do this but have a few weeks to finetune the details.

all {this week} posts can be seen by clicking here

 i will be posting four more weeks of these to wrap up the year.

this week {12.20 to 12.26}

~ i finished putting together "pretzel hug" goody bags for daycare ~


~ i put together regular goody bags for daycare ~

~ coleman brought home a bunch of christmas artwork from daycare ~

~ a coworker and i went out for a nice lunch as our "christmas meal" ~

~ packages continued to be delivered and i kept on wrapping ~

~ i made ornaments for our family exchange ~

~ i made white wine cake, deviled eggs, and crumb cake muffins ~

~ coleman and i delivered goodies to neighbors' houses ~


~ i made ornaments for family members, using coleman's painted artwork ~

~ i shopped at kohl's, michael's, hobby lobby and books a million ~


~ matt, coleman and i went to a friend's house for enchiladas ~

~ i hosted "coffee and crafts" for two friends and their little ones ~

~ family came into town ~

~ coleman turned 22 months old ~

~ coleman and i attended the christmas eve service at my sister's church ~

~ my mom, sister & her family came over on christmas eve after church and we had spaghetti ~

~ coleman and i spent christmas morning/day at sherry's house ~

~ i picked up spencer at 2:00 on christmas day ~

~ the four of us went to matt's parents' house on christmas evening ~

~ the four of us did our christmas eve traditions of new PJs, christmas book, cookies/milk for santa and carrots for the reindeer ~

~ it snowed and we all had our first ever white christmas ~

~ we celebrated our christmas morning ~

~ we played in the snow ~

~ my family came over for a mexican fiesta ~

~ scott, cameron and xander came over to hang out ~

~ sherry and michelle picked up some bargains for me at target ~

~ the boys hooked up the new ps move & played ~

this week {12.12 to 12.19}

coleman and his bathtime friends, all lined up

~ i finished the book of amos and read the books of obadiah, jonah, micah, nahum, habakkuk, zephaniah, haggai, zechariah, and malachi ~

~ i worked from home on monday because matt had a training class at work in the morning ~

~ matt and coleman had lunch at matt's parents' house ~

~ i ordered online from wal-mart, amazon and aeropostale ~

~ i did something to screw up matt's iphone and wipe out his contacts ~

coleman and rio sharing a sweet moment

~ i worked a little bit on my december daily album ~

~ i began a blog post series: "12 days of christmas tradition" ~

~ matt went christmas shopping with scott ~

~ i watched a movie: james patterson's sunday at tiffany's ~

coleman enjoying some spaghetti, sitting at the table like a big boy.

~ i placed three orders from etsy shops ~

~ our christmas cards arrived. i addressed, labeled and stamped them ~

coleman and his singing frosty the snowman. he loves this thing!

~ i wrapped more presents ~

~ matt was able to go by radio shack and get his contact information restored ~

~ coleman and giada stayed at aj's while cassidy and i joined two other friends for a 'girls night out' dinner at a local mexican place ~

a sweet moment of coleman touching ornaments using the "one finger rule"

~ coleman and i went to wal-mart ~

~ it sleeted ~

~ coleman and i made "pretzel hugs" as treats for neighbors and daycare families ~

~ i finished reading the old testament ~

~ i put together baggies of "pretzel hugs" with toppers ~

~ i watched a 4-hour lifetime movie: marry me ~

it was actually really good

~ i hung up my new christmas card holder ~

~ coleman painted ~

~ coleman and i went to matt's parents' house for lunch ~

~ our neighbors "decorated" our christmas deer ~

~ i watched another lifetime movie ~



coleman eating cereal like a big boy



this week {12.6 to 12.11}

~ i took spencer to school monday morning ~

~ our weather was really, really, cold ~

~ more packages arrived from online orders ~

coleman and cheyenne eating lunch at aj's.

~ i found out about a great iphone deal and called a ton of radio shacks ~

~ i finished reading the book of hosea ~

~ we got our family portraits from the photographer ~

~ we watched the glee christmas show ~

~ i ordered our christmas cards ~


~ coleman brought home a bunch of christmas art ~

~ i read the book of joel ~

~ i won a $35 gift certificate to dayspring from ap freewriting 101 ~

~ i placed several online orders (wal-mart, dayspring, football fanatics) ~

~ the four of us picked up my mother-in-law and looked at christmas lights ~

~ coleman helped me make pizza pockets for lunch ~

~ i worked on wrapping christmas gifts and got (temporarily) caught up ~

~ coleman and i went to wal-mart ~

spencer with his fake martini

~ matt, spencer and i watched the newest twilight movie ~

~ we all had a lazy sunday ~

~ spencer went to baseball training session at hq4 ~

~ the four of us had a candlit dinner ~

~ coleman moved from his highchair to a booster seat at the table ~

~ we had more dealings with spencer's old travel ball coach ~

~ the boys received a letter from santa ~

this week {11.29 to 12.5}

~ the four of us went to the tree farm to get our christmas tree ~

~ we ordered pizza ~

~ spencer worked out on the elliptical machine ~

~ matt put lights on our live tree and got all of our decorations down from the attic ~

~ coleman made a visual "letter to santa" at aj's ~

~ i signed up for AAA membership (groupon deal) ~

~ i bought a cool gamecock groupon deal ~

~ i finally passed on all of my HOA files ~

~ we got a christmas card in the mail from coleman (via aj) ~

~ i hung christmas garland and filled our advent calendar ~

~ i shopped at target ~

~ sherry picked up free tickets to the new children's museum for us ~

~ i put together my christmas wish list for matt ~

~ i got a head cold ~

~ i ordered gamecock digital images from this shop at etsy ~

~ i received my online orders from home depot, children's place and wal-mart ~

~ i received an incorrect order from kohl's ~

~ we got our first christmas card in the mail ~

~ i took friday off from work ~

~ i decorated our house for christmas ~

~ i grocery shopped at harris teeter, bi-lo, and rite aid ~

~ coleman and i went to the new main street children's museum ~

~ spencer was punished for lying to us earlier in the week ~

~ spencer got a progress report at school. all Bs ~


~ we decorated our live christmas tree ~

~ we attended a christmas event done by matt's company ~

~ we had our family portraits done ~
you can them all here

~ spencer tried out for a travel baseball team ~

~ i decorated our kitchen in gamecock stuff ~

~ we had an sec championship game party ~

the party went well...the game, not so much.

~ we went to christmasville for a short bit ~

~ spencer had his first baseball session at hq4 ~

~ i finished the book of daniel ~

~ i worked on the cover of my december daily album ~