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Rosewood Farms Christmas 2010

After school yesterday, we loaded up my van and made several stops to pick up a car load of friends to go to the annual Christmas Open House at Rosewood Farms. I am pretty sure I could live there. It’s such a cute place!  Plus, it is a family owned business so you always see the same smiling faces working. Their customer service is excellent.  I have even seen them hug customers. How sweet is that? 

They don’t allow pictures to be taken inside, so I had to settle for outside pictures. It’s the kind of store you have to go through twice to make sure you didn’t miss anything.

This year was even more fun because John gave me money for my birthday to spend specifically at Rosewood. He’s so sweet!

I got lots of new goodies, but I will have to wait until I start decorating for Christmas to show them.

The best part was going with friends. It has become a yearly tradition. We have now gone together for the last three years. The fun, conversation, shopping, atmosphere, free chocolate, mulled apple cider and caramel mudslide coffee were pretty great, too!

 

I can’t wait to go again next year!

Merry Christmas

I hope everyone has had a wonderfully, joyous Christmas this year. I know this time of year can be hectic and stressful, but it has been so nice to enjoy time with family and friends in honor of the birth of Jesus. I don’t have a lot of time to post tonight because I’m getting ready for another special birthday party tomorrow, but I will leave you with a picture I took at my parent’s church Christmas Eve service last night.

Don’t hate me for enjoying a little gift wrapping…

Tonight, I started wrapping Christmas presents, not out of advanced planning, but necessity. Audrey is still two, so she successfully visits every nook and cranny of our house every single day. At this point, every place I’ve tried to strategically plan ends up being in the way.  So, I decided to sneak into the bedroom while she was playing with Cole and I got all of her gifts wrapped and ready to put under the tree.

Last month, I bought a Scotch pop-up tape handband dispenser and I can’t believe how much easier gift wrapping has been so far. I seriously don’t know how I ever managed before.  If you don’t have one,  you need to run out and buy one before you even think about starting wrapping gifts this year. I got mine at the Dollar Tree, so it was super cheap! :)

Ahhh, life is good when I find something that makes this crazy life seem easier!  Plus, I got the cutest Disney Princesses wrapping paper with Audrey’s favorite, Princess Aurora/Sleeping Beauty at Karen’s Yard Sale for $1/roll! Now, if I could just find something cute for Cole. He’s not a ‘believer’ this year, so it actually makes life easier. :) I don’t have to try to find different papers from us and the man in the big red suit. I probably need to find something a little more grown up for him instead of themed paper.

What do you do to make gift wrapping easier? (Paying someone to do it is out for me because I’m too frugal.)

Now, to go figure out where I wrapped my ambition for addressing Christmas card envelopes. :)

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