holiday banner

I've been working on my holiday banner, but can't figure out why it is so HUGE! can anyone tell me how to make it smaller? maybe there is too many pictures? (specific instructions much appreciated!)

update: thanks Allegra and Barry for helping me reduce my holiday banner!

Teenagers!

So tonight i asked my 14 year old son to put away the dishes, only to be told that he was "in a meeting" (meaning he was on his cell phone with a friend!)

Wow, i can remember the day when i was asked/told to do a chore, i did it! and i certainly didn't tell my mother that i was "in a meeting"!

in his defense, about 10 minutes later he put the dishes away!

update: i feel kind of bad because when i posted his comment, i thought it was funny thing to say to your mom. but when Dillon read it, he said it made him look like he was being a jerk (his words ) or something - which wasn't the case at all. And, he corrected me and said it was only about 3 minutes later when he put the dishes away!

Anti contest on another blog

If you have a blog, you might want to check out this cute little holiday "anti contest" (their description!) at http://contesthotel.blogspot.com/. (see button to the right, called "deck the blog"). Basically the contest is about decorating your blog with the holiday spirit! take a look, it's cute.

Christmas Memories

Christmas is such a magical time. it reminds me so much of being a little girl. In my opinion, being little is the best time of life! your are clueless about the scariest aspects of the world and life. Everything is so fresh and exciting and experiences are brand new. the excitment of Christmas was so thrilling! i can remember the anticipation on Christmas Eve like it was yesterday. One Christmas in particular i remember we were staying at my grandparents in Ventura, California. there were 4 kids and only 3 bedrooms, so i think all of us kids were out in the living room on couches and on the floor in sleeping bags. the fireplace was in that room, so it was really hard for us to fall asleep since we were waiting for Santa to come down the chimney. Besides the excitement of trying to fall asleep, what stands out to me the most and really triggers memories for me, is the clock in that room. it was a cuckoo clock and you could hear it ticking all night. i have fond memories of that ticking noise because it reminds of that Christmas waiting for Santa. It reminds me of that precious time as a little girl.

here are the winners!

So, as promised, i've returned from Pennysylvania and have picked the winners for my blog candy giveaway. since it's the holidays and i am feeing that holiday spirit, i actually drew 5 names for my giveaway! The winners are:Lani of Healing Expressions, RedBessBonney, Allegra, Marci and Denise!

One person will receive my homemade Christmas banner, one person will receive one of my resin charms that i just learned how to make and 3 people will receive one of my "kworky" dolls.

thanks for playing!