Sneak Peek of Christmas in Bamberg

"WHOA!!"
Yup that is a Huge Pine Tree in the main hallway. I'm so excited!
I promise to post more pictures after Christmas!

From My Family to Yours:
Happy Holidays and a Merry Merry Christmas!

Our Dream Home

First, here is the picture of Stinky I promised. Isn't he cute?

Now onto our Dream Home. It was so much fun putting together. This was our project for the 8th Day of Christmas.

Jeremy's So Excited!!

Decorating our Dream House!

I'm Supervising

Now I'm decorating

He looks so impressed by our work. lol.

Ta Da! The Finished Product. Isn't it beautiful?

The Cats Love to Help with Christmas

The Cats have really enjoyed helping us get into the Holiday Spirit this year. Little Kitten really liked the Victorian Tree we put up in our back den.

ooh. shiny.

I'm hiding so you can't see all the ornaments I'm pulling off the tree.

At mom's house her babies helped us when we were in our craft world. On a table full of stuff they always seem to know to sit on the one piece of stuff you are working on. ha ha.

See! we are helping!
Oh they have been helping all right. Every time we go by Mom and Dad's we always hear how they are climbing the tree or dragging ornaments all over the house. Mom is so thrilled. They are so lucky they are cute.

Stinky has also been helping. He has found the new Santa hat we just bought and put in a chair. That is his new napping area. I tried to take a picture but he moved. Maybe I'll get a good one later.

Christmas Lights at the Zoo

Here are some pictures from the Christmas Lights at the Riverbanks Zoo. It was soo much fun! This was Jeremy's FIRST time EVER to see the lights at the zoo. I was so happy that I got to be the first person to share them with him. We got hot chocolate and we it was just sooo nice. They have a HUGE Christmas tree with lots of lights this year that is synchronized to Christmas music. It was AWESOME!! This is one my favorite Christmas traditions.

It Looks Like Christmas!!

The Fudge Household is all decorated for Christmas!!!

I decided to go for a gold theme on the dining room table.

Very simple mantel decorations. Some of the printables I found on the internet and some I found on Tattered and Ink Blog here.

Our Santa Village. Jeremy has been collecting these since he was little. There are still a bunch in Bamberg which we will get one of these days.

We did not have a star or an angel for our tree this year. But Jeremy came home the other day with this wonderful ornament (his Mom gave it to him) so we decided to put him at the top of the tree. How Awesome is this! Pirate Santa Claus !

Here is our Christmas Tree this year.

Our ornament for 2011.

Our Santa Tree

I love having the house all decorated for Christmas! Do yall like our decorations this year?

Crafty Saturday

Today I went over to my Mom's house to finish up some Christmas Crafts. I can't show you all of them becuase we worked on a really special Christmas Present for someone who reads my blog, but I'll try to upload those pictures after Christmas. Enjoy!

This is the yarn wreath I made for Mom this year. Isn't it pretty!! I love how it turned out.

Close up of the bird.
A new obsession of mine: bobby pins! These are a few I did with felt and buttons.

These are made with resin flowers.

I also made some really cute paper clips with resin flowers.

Holiday Craft Exchange and a Birthday Party!

So if yall remember, I joined a Holiday Craft Exchange this year. My partner in this craft exchange was Penny from Charlottesville, VA and I made her a really cool holiday yarn wreath. You can see it here. I received her gift to me in the mail the other day and I am so excited to share it with you! It is AWESOME!! She made me a super cute T-shirt Scarf! And in my favorite color!! She also included a really cute button wreath ornament for our tree. I loved being in this craft exchange! I can't wait to participate in another one.

Here is a picture of the scarf and the ornament.
A close-up of the rosettes on the scarf. Too Cute!!!

A close-up of the super cute button wreath ornament! I can't wait to try to make one myself.

On Friday we celebrated my wonderful Little Brother's 24th Birthday! We went out to one of our favorite restaurants: Sakura's. When I say favorites I mean a restaurant my family has been going to since Jamie and I were in diapers. When we were really little, Mom and Dad would bring McDonald's to the restaurant for us and they would eat sushi. Then we graduated to terriyaki chicken and now we go there as much as possible. My husband on the other hand "does not eat bait". But we did find a new favorite for him at the restaurant; a pork and egg dish on rice. (he kept threatening to ask the waiter for some gravy and collards to go with it; omg) So now hopefully we can go there on a few date nights.

It was so much fun to have dinner and celebrate Jamie's birthday as a family. I think we laughed till we cried on several occasions. Yes... we were THOSE people in the restaurant. And yes I did see that a lot of the other people there trying to enjoy their dinner were giving us the stink eye but so what. We were having fun and that is what is important.

I got to wear my new scarf!

Jeremy, Me, and Jamie

Dan, Dad, and Mom

Me and Mom