Santa tracking

Guess what? On Christmas Eve, you can track Santa on his journey around the world to deliver gifts! Google Maps is offering the tracking device, and every day in December you can even check in on Santa's village to see what the elves are up to! I just can't wait for Christmas!!

Lenny is famous!

It's true! My Lenny is famous! This is a picture of "Linny" from Wonder Pets on Nick Jr (on the left) and my Lenny (on the right). Who knew Lenny already had his own TV show!? Thanks Brooklyn for discovering this awesome bit of news.

Christmas card

This year I was featured in the company Christmas card. Enjoy!

yellow dresser

I love this bright yellow Before and After on Design*Sponge today. I have been wanting to repaint my white chest and add knobs to it and this dresser is the perfect inspiration!

Disney on Ice...

... was awesome tonight! Tori and I decided to go about 3 hours before it started and we had a blast! (Although we were probably the oldest ones there without kids.) How can these pictures not make you smile?

it was a night of celebrations!

and minnie became a princess

we even heard music and saw dancing from the newest Disney movie "Princess and the Frog" (I loved these mardi gras costumes!

and of course we celebrated Christmas with Goofy dressed up as Santa

and one of my favorites, Lumiere, was there - How fun!

gift guides

'Tis the Season and a lot of websites are putting out some awesome gift guides to help you get that perfect gift for your special whoever.

Here are some of my favorites:

From Cup of Jo, for your mom

From Design*Sponge, for guys on your list

(Design*Sponge also has guides for various price ranges)

From Gap, for under $50

And if you want to make gifts this year, thelongthread.com has 100 fantastic ideas for handmade holiday crafts and gifts!

flower garland

I am loving this flower garland that I saw on the blog Once Wed. I'm even thinking of making these flowers and putting them on a pillow or a cardigan. Wouldn't that be sweet?

gift ideas

how neat are these personalized hangers I just found on etsy?

wallpaper

I'm not usually a fan of wallpaper but I came across this website today with this very cool wallpaper idea. They've also got some really neat wall stickers and designs for tiles.

Snow

Snow My Yard turns ordinary ice into snow any time of the year! And they are going to be in downtown Raleigh at the ice rink on December 20, January 3, and January 17 with snow and sledding ramps. How fun! Looks like NC will be getting some snow this season.

ps - the photo is of my office in the snow in January 2009