Sweet Dreams

Wishing you a weekend of peaceful, sweet dreams :)

Deck the Scarbary Halls

I love to decorate for Christmas. I love the smell of the Christmas tree and listening to Christmas music that reminds me of the real meaning of Christmas..... the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Bringing out the decorations reminds me of our Christmas' gone by and how fast time truly flies by.

We started decorating the day after Thanksgiving and I thought I would give you little pre-view of our decorations. My sweet little helper was into it this year and was a huge help.

My sweet little Elf

As you can tell from this picture.... Josh was not the least bit concerned with decorating the house. He was more interested in the football game that was going on :) That's my boy!

This tower was the creation made by my little elf. She wanted to see how many snow village boxes she could stack with out them crashing down on her.

I will leave you with a little peak at one of our trees. Check back soon for the photo tour of our finished decorations :)

Hope you are feeling the warmth and love of Jesus this Christmas Season!

Christmas 2009

Pictures... are you surprised?! My digital camera bit the dust but I do still have ole faithful... unfortunately.... the cost of getting a role of film developed is not cheap. So.... I have to be more selective on my the pictures I take! At least I have "A" camera, right!!!!

I finally got my Christmas roll of film developed and wanted to share a few... we had a blast over Christmas break and was so sad for it to be over!

I love this picture of Josh.... he is turning into a young man quickly!

One of my favorite Christmas ornaments

Christmas morning in front of their Christmas tree. I have all the school Christmas decorations they ever made on this tree! We always put it up in our kitchen so we can see it all season.

Annalee with her Gingerbread house she made for school.


Meet... Bai-lee. I wish I could say he was ours but he belongs to my parents. He was their Anniversary/Christmas present. Isn't he cute!?


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Holly Jolly Cookie Exchange

Today I am joining Kim at Homesteaders Heart for her Holly Jolly Cookie Exchange. Who couldn't use more cookie recipes, right?! My kids love cookies and I actually use this recipe all year round. They are so easy to make and are so yummy. They are thin, crispy and chewy at the same time! Enjoy :)

Molasses Sugar Cookies

3/4 cup Crisco

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup molasses

1 egg

2 cups flour

2 teas. baking soda

1 teas. cinnamon

1/2 teas. cloves

1/2 teas. ginger

1/2 teas. salt

Mix all together. Roll into 1" balls and roll in sugar. Place on cookie sheet about 2" apart. Bake 8-10 minutes at 375*. (I always go for the 8 minutes... they turn out crunchy and chewy)

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful Wednesday! :)

Momma dropped the ball... Boo.

I had a sad Mommy moment this weekend.... a very sad " I let my daughter down" moment. Boo. One of those that will haunt me for the rest of my Mommy life. Boo.

Last week Annalee came running down the driveway after checking the mail. She had received a letter in the mail and was so excited to find out that she was going to get to be in a Christmas parade with her AWANA group from church. How exciting.... right! I mean, I have never been in a Christmas parade before!

Her excitement grew and I keep the date IN MY HEAD for Sunday.... she needed to be there at 1:30 and the parade began at 3:00. I even called my sister-in-law to see if she and her little boy would like to go!

Any hew...... Saturday I got up early and was at Walmart shopping by 7:00. I was so proud of myself.... so organized.... I usually have not begun shopping this early in Dec. That afternoon Dean worked on his 4runner after this incident.... and me and the kids, and the sister-in-law and her son hung around my mother-in-laws house with Dean while he worked.... bored....nothing really to do.

So,,,, fast forward to Sunday morning. I get up with my mind filled with all we needed to do, and take for the parade. Blankets, chairs, camera, Annalee needed her earmuffs, jacket, gloves and ... was her AWANA shirt clean? Oh no.... ahhh yes, it is actually hanging in her closet ready to go! The morning progresses in its usual Sunday morning joy..... we get in the van and actually make it to church on time. I tell Annalee that I will find out where we need to meet for the parade. She is soooooo excited.

Meanwhile, Dean, Josh and I are in the service (Annalee is in Children's Church) and the preacher is preaching a wonderful sermon. He is preaching on reaching others for Christ when we heard something on these lines....." You have to go to where the people are.... like yesterday.... I walked in the Bolingbroke parade. The AWANA kids were on their float, throwing candy.." .......ahhhhh excuse me.... what did he just say????? The AWANA kids were what?? Yesterday???? Dean immediately looked at me.... Josh had no clue.... he ,sadly, doesn't pay attention to the sermons.... I about dropped my Bible..... The parade what,,, it's what,...not today? THE PARADE WAS NOT SUNDAY , IT WAS SATURDAY!!!!! Keep in mind from above,,,, we were at my MILs bored,,, nothing to do,,, while the PARADE was going on! Boo. Boo. Boo. Immediately I thought of Annalee.... how was I going to handle my broken hearted daughter??? And to top it all off..... it was 100% MY FAULT!!!

I went to pick her up from Children's Church and when I saw the look on her face.... I knew that she already knew. Her Momma let her down :( Boo.

I told her that I was soooo sorry and that it was completely my fault. She was bummed but said it was okay. Really it wasn't. I clearly dropped the ball. I am the Momma, it is my job to keep up with things. This was the first time I have messed something like this up for her. Dean was so sweet in trying not to make me feel like a dog. But like I told him ... this was important to her.... I just hate it.

She got over it quickly when we let her pick where she wanted to eat for lunch. She kept telling me it was okay. But from here on out the subject of "parades" will truly have new meaning here at the Scarbary house! And you better believe, Momma will be more careful :/

Boo.

Lookie, Lookie

Look what was in my mailbox today~

My FREE Christmas Cards! I ordered them from Photoworks.com on Monday and got them today. What a great surprise..... and I love them :) You can't beat free.... free Christmas Cards and free shipping! Now all I have to do is address them ~ the fun begins!

Phone calls from Santa !

I received this in my email and thought it would be so cute for the right age kids. You can visit the Kroger website here to sign up to receive a free phone call from Santa, Sammy the Snow Man or Tony Stewart. (my kids would pass on Tony~ nothing personal) I think it would be so cool to get a call from Santa! I am going to set mine up now!

Merry Christmas!

I love Candy Canes!

There are so many things about Christmas that I love! One of favorites is the Candy Cane. I love to put Candy canes on the kids Christmas tree, put them in hot chocolate, add them to almond bark, and just eat them by themselves. One of my favorite flavors is the Mint Chocolate candy canes. I LOVE those.

I came across the Legend of the Candy cane story here and wanted to pass it along. After all the real reason we celebrate Christmas is because of Jesus' birth!

I got mine!!!!

Okay, hold on to your seats..... this is my 3rd post today !!! ???

I just ordered some cute, FREE Christmas cards! Yipee, Yahoo!!! Hopefully some more free deals will pop up soon. If your interested go here to visit STL Mommy for more information. Hurry, offer only available for the first 20,000!