Chandelier is up!

 The hubby rented a 12 foot ladder Thursday to put up the chandelier!

 This guy is afraid of heights! But he got the chandelier hung just for me =)

 I LOVE it! I purchased it online from CSN stores and am soo pleased, I will use them again soon!

 Isn't it pretty?!

 I took a couple shots of it this morning too!

He also surprised me with this! A leaf blower! YAY!

We are headed to the airport, back later with a post!

Snow, mountains and "One little word 2011"

 This morning we had snow, yuck!

 Okay, maybe it was a little pretty.

 But this afternoon it all cleared up, and was stunning! This is the view from the media room windows.

 The mountains are in Canada.

 I love it!
I have been reading blogs posts tonight about "One little word for 2011" I am still thinking that 2011 my word will be GIVE.
My little word this year was BALANCE and last year was COMPLETE. Having "One little word" helps to keep me focused and inspired all year, have you got a word for 2011 yet?

A bit of an update!

 Yes, we bought a new house and have been busy cleaning, packing, moving and unpacking! It is alot of work! haha! Hopefully we won't be doing it again, ever!

 Luckily, we only moved a mile away from our other house, so that has made it easier. A little.

 The house has so many of the things we were looking for... one level living, privacy, courtyard, chicken coop, with chickens (six to be exact) studio, 3 car garage...

 It does need some work in the kitchen, guest bath and guest bedroom.

 But it had too many things we loved, to not buy it.

 It has straw on the kitchen walls, but I actually kinda like it.

 The gas fireplace has been wonderful! I have lit it every night for at least a half hour.

 Some of our furniture, (all of the pictures in this post are from when we had the inspection, so none of this furniture is ours) seems so small for this house.

 It will be a fun project to shop Craigslist and thrift stores for furniture. I am hoping to use the garage to paint some furniture.

 Having the six chickens has been fun, Koko and I let them out each morning then walk the 3/4 acre lot. The chicken coop also has a green house attached which will be fun come spring.

 The house as 3 ponds...

Well, thats it for now. I will try to take some pics of our furniture in the house. Right now my goal is to empty the other house out this week, so I can finish painting over there and get it cleaned for the renters. But I am planning on decorating this house for Christmas too, so I will get some pics posted.

Have a great week!

Some news...

We bought a new house! 

We have to decided to rent the house we live in out to some friends of Scott's! We are soo excited!  We have been busy packing and cleaning, I will be back in a few days with more details!

Have a fantastic day!

Thanksgiving wrap up...

 I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving weekend! We had a very relaxing 4 days =) Last Wednesday I made the cranberry sauce for dinner on Thursday. I received this recipe several years ago from a friend and have been making my own cranberry sauce ever since. Last year I began substituting agave for the sugar and can't tell the difference.

 This is what it looks like when it has cooked for about 10 minutes.

 Then I just put it into jars for easy storage and gift giving.

 I also made the candied sweet potatoes on Wednesday. I used both sweet potatoes and yams.

 I received this recipe from my sister in law, I did substitute agave, but still added the brown sugar. These are the best, the hubby LOVES them.

This year I baked only one pie. Since it is just the hubby and I, we don't really need two pies! haha! So Pumpkin it was... made with agave and wheat crust. YUM! The pie was baked on Wednesday too.

 I made a few little changes to my center piece...

 set the table using cloth napkins and cute little place settings =)

 On the back of the hubbys I wrote what I was thankful for...

 He knows me too well, he immediately turned it over to read what I had written.

 Yum, dinners ready!

 The candied sweet potatoes ready to be eaten.

 One of my Pottery Barn inspired candles...

 A full plate of food!

Pie for dessert, with homemade whipped cream... 

We spent the day in our jammies, it snowed and was cold... Scott did go out and shovel the driveway and to buy me a newspaper so we could look at the Black Friday ads. By the time dinner was over it was raining and most of the snow was melted =) gotta love that.

Today I have a mountain of laundry to do, some groceries to buy, I am going to try my darndest to pack up at least a couple boxes of books from the bookcases downstairs. Take down Thanksgiving decorations, and finish wrapping the last of the Christmas presents.

I am going to try to make a batch of chocolate covered cherries too! Guess I better get moving!

Have a fabulous day!

Brrr, baby it's cccollddd outside!

 16. 16 degrees outside as I type this. Bbrrrr! I thought I left these temperatures when I left Nevada! I understand that they are at 0 degrees and are expecting -6 and -13 later in the week, so I guess I shouldn't be complaining! I took the picture above on Friday. Before it snowed! I couldn't resist the white caps on the water.

So what have I been up to?  Umm, NOT packing stuff up! haha! My friend Andrea came over and sewed the coffee sack pillows last week.

 She did an awesome job! The sacks were not the easiest fabric to be working with.

 She brought lattes from SB which was soo sweet of her.

 She is leaving in January... I am going to miss her!  Isn't that pillow Cu-ute?! So Pottery Barn ;)

 I have been trying to finish my Christmas presents for the year. I have made 5 necklaces for special people in my life...

 I can't show ALL of them, but can show you a couple.

 Thank you to my very sweet friend Jessica for teaching me how to make these necklaces, so fun to make. You may remember the purple one she made for me, which is perfect, I love the purple starfish that are in the waters here.

 It snowed Friday night, YUCK!

 We woke up to about 4 inches.

 And clear skies, which means COLD!

 The color of the water is soo blue with the snow and clear blue sky.

 The hubby shoveled Saturday morning.

 Sunset was gorgeous Saturday night. The hubby and I ended up having a HUGE crab dinner. I bought 5 pounds, just a little too much, so we had crab cocktails Sunday night!

 I finished my coffee sack bulletin board, it will be so pretty in the guest bedroom.

 I finished my pillow too! I failed to get a picture of my first batch of fudge for the season, but will take a picture of the next batch.
I went to my first and second Bikram Yoga classes, thanks to my friend Lisa for letting me go with her. I was worried about the heat, but I just breathe through the few moments of panic that occasionally hit me and so far so good! EVERY muscle in my body hurts though!

Today is a pamper day. Getting my hair colored and cut, and a pedicure and my nails done, woohoo! So no yoga, but I will go again tomorrow. This is the sunset from the front window Sunday night, GORGEOUS!
Have a great week, and stay warm!