More lil Village

My newest addition to my Christmas decor. I finally got these in the mail after mailing them to the wrong address...long story so thank you Mom Martin for sending them to me. I love these lil houses, they are pretty old and oh so sweet!

Sneak Peak

Here is a lil sneak peak at some of my favorite 2011 Martin Family Photos. Taken by my lovely friend Alecia with Alecia Dawn Photography. This girl is so unbelievably talented! To me finding your photographer is like finding your soul mate and Alecia is my photography soul mate. She gets my vision, even if they seem over the top sometimes and she executes it perfectly.

It was very cold for us wussy sunny St.Georgians, but totally worth it. Even though Miles is making a butt face in half the pictures I still love the candid shots the best.

Stay tuned for the rest later!!

Almost there

It's funny how my belly doesn't get much bigger just pointier.

Merry & Bright!

Yay for The Holiday's! I am so excited for Christmas seems like more then ever this year. Maybe because I'm in the nesting phase of my pregnancy and I want to get all creative.

This year I did things a little a different, but of course sticking to my vintage ornaments which make me so happy! There is nothing like Christmas that makes you want to be surrounded with the magic of your childhood and decorating with stuff I grew up with makes me all warm inside.

Although I got my first nontraditional "WHITE" tree and am sooooo happy with my lil twist on traditional. My ornaments just pop out of this tree. I'm sorta in love with it. (I do have colored lights on the tree but you can't tell in the picture)

Next is this sweet tender tree skirt. I had one just like it that my grandma made but I found this one at the thrift store which I just loved. Only a $1....to think the time spent making it...I will appreciate it, who ever made it. There is even initials on the stockings, but that makes me love it even more. There is nothing better then sequence and felt during the holidays.

Here are a few close ups of my tree...I made the pom pom garland and it was so much fun...a mess but fun. Can you spy Batman? Of course we have to have Batman!

My favorite newest addition is my beginning of a Christmas village. I'm in love with the bottle brush trees and I've seen so many ways of dying them diff. colors. So you bleach them and some turn out yellow, light green, teal, cream and I bought some pink cloth dye to make my peachy pink trees. Then along with the trees added some lil people. Thanks to my grandma for collecting me all my wooden people and ornaments all year round. She even found me the house music box. I can't wait to add more next year.

Lastly just a few other touches....I wish I had more places to put all my stuff on display but with my kids everything has to be unreachable...the tree is a story in itself. We are excited to do our advent calendar my mom made last year (an exact replica of my childhood advent calendar).

So we have our christmas lights up on our house, tree up, elf on a shelf watching, Josh Groban Christmas cd playing and holiday candles burning! Time to make some gifts...and buy some too.

Just Today!

Just some good ole fashion fun today. Lucy got herself dressed, can you tell.

Trick or Treat

We always go trick or treating to Dad's work and Miles dressed up like Daddy....it was so sweet to see my lil Miles look like a mini Rob.

The trick or treat gang!

Halloweeeeeeeeen

Rob and I went to our friends party last night and trying to get Rob to dress up for Halloween is not easy. So I convinced him to do something I knew he would love. Hello Back to the Future! He was game and made the perfect Doc!

Trying to get Miles to go as "Lil Carl" as "Up" wasn't going to happen after seeing the batman costume at the store. He was set on being batman, but "cool batman" so late Friday night last minute I ran to the store to see if they had any left and of course not, but really I couldn't bring myself to spend $20 on a cheap ugly batman store costume. So I bought a gray turtle neck for $4 and made the rest out of stuff I had....and he LOVED IT! He has actually been wearing it for 3 days straight along with sleeping in it.

Since Miles was batman, no one could tell what Lucy was as 'Lil Ellie" from "Up" unless she was with Miles as "Lil Carl" so I had to act fast and whip up something cute. She said she wanted to be a princess and again I don't do store bought ugly costumes. So she got a lovely felt cape and crown. She loved it!!!