the count down is on

Yay! It is finally December!

And we are officially counting down to Christmas at the Bartholomew home!

After a little inspiration,

I got to work and came up with this...

They each hold a clue/gift for every day until Santa arrives.

We are anxiously awaiting the opening of the 1st gift in the morning.

Then we are off to catch a plane for San Diego - GO BYU!

Fun stuff!

This is my friend, Angie.
LoVe her!
She is super duper talented in aLL things.

Tonight she helped me learn a new hobby that I have been dying to learn FoReVeR!

We went to the bead store, picked out some black, red and white BLiNG {to match the girls Christmas outfits} and then created these aDoRaBLe little things...

Angie gets all credit for the earrings - a little too scary for me! Oh, and please don't mention these to the girls, they are gifts for their advent calenders.

OOPS!

So, I just went to download all of my pictures from Thanksgiving and turns out Chad left his camera and took mine! (they are the same kind) Bummer! So I will have to wait to update you on our celebrations but in the mean time found these on Chaddy's camera and thought I would share a little story with you...

This is Luke. Luke wasn't feeling so hot on Thanksgiving. He slept through the 1st dinner on mom's lap, then slept some more (on dad's lap) while at the movies with his cousins and the rest o' the Bartholomew clan. Luke then came home for the 2nd dinner and found comfort in his good friend, Angie's lap. Luke really likes Ang...so much that he puked on our one and only non-family guest, right before dinner!

Poor guy, poor Ang!

This is him with his "puke bowl" he didn't use it, just the once on Ang was enough. But his sister was extra sweet and caring for him all night long. Loved watching her mother him, made me extra thankful for my kids!
Once again, SO SO SO SO SOOOOOOOOO sorry Angie!