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Miss Peanut Butter is still in love with her castle. I am very happy with the purchase. Some of you have asked about it and I got it at Amazon. They have a more boy style one too. The only thing I don't like about it is some of the doors are very small and some of her figures/dolls get stuck. We are also in the process of moving most of her toys to her room. This would go a lot better if she was no longer in her crib, but alas she is not. In fact going to bed has gotten even worse here. She no longer lays down when you put her to bed but stands and begins the crib shaking and scream fest.
She is becoming quite the words worth too. She seems to be picking up more and more words, it is interesting to hear what comes out of her mouth sometimes. "Hurry!" and "GO AWAY" are a couple of my favorites.
I unfortunately have not used my Cricut yet. It took me most of one day to do a page on Sunday. Sometimes I get too wrapped up in watching tv than scrapping. That is my excuse anyway. I did win a Disney font cartridge on Ebay. I also used up most of the gift card J gave me for the scrapbook store since I'm sure it was the total lack of paper that was making it so hard for me to get any mojo. I'm sure I'll be ready to get down to business the next chance I get.
We are doing our normal get together hanging out with our friends over New Year's Eve and Day. Happy New Year's everyone. Is it just me or did the year just fly by?

Photostory Friday: Merry Christmas

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Merry Christmas

Miss Peanut Butter was excited to see all the presents under the tree this morning.

She ripped through presents like a tornado, even through a couple that weren't hers,
but no one minded.

She seems to love the castle we got her. I really like it myself.

When you have a castle, a prince and a princess, there is sure to be a happy ending.

J got me a wonderful present too. A Cricut, I cannot wait to use it.

I hope your Christmas was as merry as ours was.

If you want to see the Christmas pictures from Madrid check out my last 2 posts.

Some Christmas Lights

A few Christmas light pictures from Madrid. Here's to hoping everyone has a Merry Christmas.

Photostory Sunday: Nativity Scenes

Nativity Scenes

One of the things I noticed in Madrid is they love their nativity scenes. On the Saturday night we were there, we came upon this shed set up with a huge nativity scene in it. We though, "oh that's neat let's take a look and as we rounded the corner there was a huge line down the block to look at this scene. They were probably waiting at least 30 min to walk through a shed to look at a nativity scene. The next day we found this Christmas market in the Plaza Mayor. My Mom bought one of those hanging Santas that I showed last Friday. They had loads of ornaments, lights and trinkets for sale.....

They also had the motherlode of nativity scene pieces. You want a little clay bottle to add to your scene they had it. A big castle? check, any animal under the sun? check, palm trees? size small? check, size large? check. A plethora of kings, mangers, Marys, Josephs and of course Baby Jesuses. We aren't talking one or two stalls here either it was stall upon stall. Cutesy ones, huge ones, tiny ones, you name what you want they had it somewhere. I have never seen anything like it.

Here is one of the cutesy sets I saw. I didn't even look at prices on any of them I probably would have tried to take home a whole set.

This isn't a nativity scene, but I though it was a neat set of carollers made from chocolate. They had pigs made out of pastry and mice made out of something too.

Friday Miss Peanut Butter recieved a nativity set of her own from her Aunt. She loves pushing the top of the manger to play the music.


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I know it's Sunday and not Friday, but I'm behind on everything.

The Things in My Husbands Head

My husband got it in his head that a bunch of things around here needed to be done before Christmas and a whole 2-5 people come over and see the money pit. Number one on his list was the living room floor needed to be done. I'll admit it they did look awful, as this is the before photo.

He set it up were they were coming last Tues to start. The day after I got back from Madrid. Thankfully he had a friend come over and help him move all the furniture out. So from last Tues until yesterday we could not use the living room and on top of that J has the ceiling in the kitchen refinished too. So not only did we not have a living room we had no kitchen either and since the dining room had everything crammed into it we really couldn't use that either. We also seemed to be running, but doing nothing all week so nothing got done around here and I haven't found a chance to finish my Christmas shopping. But our floors look good.

In order to get this madness back to normal I'm going to post a couple posts today and try and catch up with you all, and try and stay sane over the next few days.
Have a Merry Christmas!

Santa Baby

We went and saw Santa today. Peanut Butter did pretty good. She was all excited when we got up to the house, but acted all shy when it came time to meet the guy in red. I really like this guy that does Santa. He looks great and is really nice. They were having problems with the camera and he came over and talked to the kids in line, warming up to them.

We also went and saw Bolt. We were the only people in the theater and PB ran around more than watched the movie, but I thought it was pretty good.

Home from Madrid

I made it back from a whirlwind weekend in Madrid. It is a very beautiful city, great old architecture. I love that stuff. The Christmas lights did not disappoint, I will be posting more on that on Friday. I definitely would recommend learning some Spanish before you go if you should. I tried to cram in some before we went, but I kept wanting to speak French and I'll I could remember was Donde esta..... We managed though and had a pretty good time. We must have been super jet lagged since we ended up sleeping until 2pm the first night. We thought my Mom's watch was wrong until we walked out into the lobby, oops. But Madrid is a night city and most things are still open until about 8 or 10 pm. People don't even eat dinner until 10 pm. We didn't do the tapas thing. I was not confident enough, due to our lack of Spanish, to attempt this and I don't drink either so sitting at the bar wasn't going to do it for me. We ate some pretty good meals, the night we had pallela was delishious. We even hit a Christmas market in Plaza Mayor which was really fun. The love their Nativity scenes though. I have never seen so many or so many vendors selling peices for them. We are not talking the basic little set, these are huge elaborate sets down to little bottles and tuffts of grass. It did rain one day but that was the day we slept til 2 so we hit the museums and by the time we got kicked out of the second one it was 8pm and clear. We walked around for probably another hour or so and saw the city all lit up. It was beautiful.

I did attempt to Skype with PB, but it didn't go very well, she cried a lot at ended up having a huge tantrum after we diconnected. I did miss her very much. J went on a huge cleaning spree and the house looks great. We are supposed to have our living room floor done today, but I have been waiting over an hour now for the guy who is going to do it. I think J has a bug that he wants to get the house in order to attempt to sell it. Who knows, but things are getting done around her anyway.

I will be posting more through the week about Madrid, I took over 200 photos before going through them, weeding out the bad ones.