One Landes Place

Being away from my actual house at Christmas isn't exactly how I would pick to spend my holiday. I'm not really a "home body" but I've always loved just spending Christmas at my "home" with family. This year is our year to spend Christmas with Matt's family in Arkansas. I love his family and always enjoy being with them and watching Sarabeth play with her cousins, but nothing is the same as being at home. It becomes stressful to get all the shopping, cooking, and packing done early so we can head out in time to be the Christmas traffic rush to get to Arkansas before Christmas day. This year we left a few days earlier than planned to be able to spend some time with Matt's dad at the hospital and to help around the farm before the rest of the family arrived. We usually stop at my parent's house in Longview on the way to spend the day with them exchanging gifts and eating lunch. This year we just drove straight through and made plans to dr...

I did this last year and it was so much fun! I really enjoyed reading everyone's decorating ideas. I didn't take many pictures this time but here are a few that Matt took last week. Merry Christmas!

Tonight Sarabeth and I made gingerbread boys and girls. I had never made them before so I was hopeful that they tasted ok. Matt loves gingerbread so I knew he would eat them regardless. Here's a little picture story of our evening. How much longer mommy? Daddy the perfectionist (his was the best one) Icing Fight! Sharing a Twizzler Lady and The Tramp style Our finished masterpieces! We had so much fun! Matt really took 20 minutes to make just one Santa Gingerbread man! Just typical of my hubby-one more reason why I love him. :) Sarabeth had a ball! I let her get as messy as she wanted. I think she only ended up making one and the rest she ate!