There will be no pinching for us- we are sporting our green today! Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!!
p.s. Do you know how difficult it is to get a “self portrait” while holding a toddler and juggling a massive camera? It’s hard I tell ya, really hard!
your Valentines Day is extra SWEET!
Thanks Staci for decorating the cookies with me- Jay thinks the little “love bugs” are super yummy! Plus, it’s so much more fun when you get to do it with a friend!
I love crafting; however, I don’t get a whole bunch of time to do it anymore. So this year, as an excuse (kind of) to be able to, I decided to make a good majority of our Christmas presents. I love getting things that are homemade from people; I love the thought and time that is put into those gifts. I hope that people we know do to, since I am probably going to try and do the same next year too! Although, in a perfect world I would start a little sooner in the year than I did this year. Check out some of the projects we gave…
Some of the things that I made but forgot to take pictures of included a “Grandma and Me” book for my Mom, a Perreault Memory Game for my three year old cousin (this was adorable and I regret not getting a picture of it… I’ll have to make one for Jay and take pictures), a frame with family pictures for Mimi (we didn’t make the frame but the pictures are all ours), dog rope toys, pickles- which Jamie and I made together (I actually did take pictures while we were making them just none of them packaged nicely and ready to be given), a delicious honey- cinnamon butter, homemade Almond Joys (that I may or may not have “tasted” while making)cookies, cookies and more cookies! I think when I added up my cookie total I was up to somewhere around 375 and that didn’t count the candy and other baking!
I love, love, love sending (as well as getting) holiday cards each year and I get so excited to start sending them out. This year Jamie, Jay and I met up with Nan, Jeremy and Leyton to get family photos for the cards- I took theirs, she took ours and man-o-man do I love how they turned out!! I am super, duper lucky to have a wonderful and talented friend, Nan, who is willing to put up with my crazy ideas (trespassing in an orange grove to get family photos done) and then design my holiday card each year. She is amazing, trust me, and I love everything that she has ever done for me and she’s done a lot.
Since, I sent them the week before Christmas and I am assuming everyone has already gotten them; I am going to post a few more from that day that didn’t make it on to the card but are too good not to share…
2010 has been a blessed and wonderful year for us. However, I am super excited to see all that 2011 has in store for us! Happy New Year Everyone!
January- We waited around, finished up last minute baby preparations and welcomed James Vickers Perreault Jr to our family.
February- We celebrated Valentines Day with our little love bug, enjoyed the Olympics, cuddled a lot and didn’t get much sleep.
March- We had visitors from Cananda (Great Grandma and Great Auntie Deb) and Asheville (Aunt Nicole), we spent a lot of time outside enjoying the weather and Daddy went back to work part time.
April- We celebrated Jay’s first Easter and Earth Day and we started sleeping through the night frequently.
May- We celebrated our first Mother’s Day, Jay laughed and rolled over for the first time, he met some more of his cousins (Mary Beth and Sean) and we took our first swim.
June- We celebrated our first Father’s Day, Jay started sitting up on his own and eating solid foods and we had another visit from Aunt Nicole.
July- We celebrated Canada Day, the Fourth of July, Jay’s baptism and Mom’s 28th birthday.
August- We sat in grass for the first time without a blanket, we enjoyed some really nice afternoons outside and we started scooting around on our belly.
September- We started going to the Library Storytime, planted our first garden, played at the park in the swings a lot, began crawling and we took our first trip to Terra Ceia.
October- Our little Jay Bird got his first set of wings, we ate our fill for Canadian Thanksgiving and we celebrated Daddy’s 30th birthday.
November- We (Jamie and I) celebrated 5 years of knowing each other, we hung out in the hammock a whole lot and we cruised to the Bahamas and Key West.
December- We decorated our house for the holidays, we (Kristen) baked a ton and we celebrated the holidays with tons of family.
One week tomorrow is Christmas and we have had some busy little elves at our place getting ready for the big occasion, but I think we are almost ready. We just need all of the family to get into town so we can get this celebration started :-)
Here’s a peak at what we’ve been up to… what’s left to do on your list?
all of our packages have arrived
our tree has been picked
it has been delivered
and trimmed
the lights have been hung
the decorations have been put out
a few breaks have been taken to play
holiday goodies have been baked
and they have been taste tested too!
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until Christmas!! Who’s excited?!?!?!
is going to be so much fun this year!
Because Christmas decorations are already up in the stores, since the weather here is in the low 80’s, because the leaves are changing colors on the trees (ha- we live in Florida folks) and because we hope to enjoy time with family and stuff our bellies to capacity this week, it can only mean one thing- Thanksgiving is almost here!! And since we have been especially blessed this year we thought that we would take the week to tell you about a few things we are most thankful for. We hope that you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and are able to enjoy it with those most dear to you…
Make sure to check on posts from the rest of the week too…
We are thankful that we can ask ourselves every night- what leftovers should we have or what should I make for dinner, rather than how are we going to feed our family. We are so grateful to not have to worry about these things and to be able to enjoy great meals as a family and watch our little Jay continuously expand his palate.
Because Christmas decorations are already up in the stores, since the weather here is in the low 80’s, because the leaves are changing colors on the trees (ha- we live in Florida folks) and because we hope to enjoy time with family and stuff our bellies to capacity this week, it can only mean one thing- Thanksgiving is almost here!! And since we have been especially blessed this year we thought that we would take the week to tell you about a few things we are most thankful for. We hope that you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving and are able to enjoy it with those most dear to you…
We are so thankful for family. We have so many that are near and that we get to see often and so many that we wish we could see more frequently. You all make our lives so much richer every day that you are in it…
the perreault family 