holiday parade & craft redemption

have i mentioned how much i love our little town?

i guess i'm really just a small town girl at heart...
but, always felt like i needed to live in a big city.

it took settling down and having a huge family to finally make me realize where i belong.

LOVE IT!

this is our second christmas here in our town and this is our first experience with the holiday parade and tree lighting. the boys had a lot of fun and really enjoyed bumping into friends from school while we were at the parade. i really loved that, too. i love being somewhere where we know people.

the big boys having fun in the rain while we waited for the parade to start. 

 

liam seriously loves his big bro.
he had nothing but hugs for isaiah while we waited for the tree lighting.
melts this mama's heart!

now, on to my craft redemption....

if you are reading this and watch tosh.0, you'll totally follow me on this. this "craft redemption" is my version of his "web redemption". he has a segment on his show where idiots people created videos for youtube and completely screwed up whatever it was they were trying to do, thus completely humiliating themselves on the world wide web. daniel tosh then gives these screw-ups the opportunity to redeem themselves by re-enacting whatever ridiculous action they were trying to do on his show.

i made this book paper wreath earlier this week and didn't make my paper cones pointy enough. if you don't know by now, i have ocd about many things...one of which is that things have to happen according to my vision. i have an idea in my head of how something should be or look and if an end product doesn't match my vision, well...it has to be done all over again. this is an example of one of those instances. another instance is the way the house is cleaned...but i won't even get into that...

book paper wreath - BEFORE (UN-pointy cones)

book paper wreath - AFTER (pointy cones. thus, much cuter version)

 

i would call this a successful craft redemption. thank you for allowing me to share a bit of my insanity with you. 

did you notice my super cute, glittery pine cones in the vase? YES! another fabulous ornament idea from the blog of jami nato. oh, how i love her and her christmas crafternoon installments. 

'til next time!