Have yourselves a Merry Lego Christmas!

Oh Christmas Tree Skirt… oh Christmas Tree Skirt…

I finished it! My new Christmas tree skirt! I’ve had a cheap flannel skirt since I’ve had my own tree.. this is a major improvement!

And here’s some photo’s of my eclectic ornaments.. enjoy!

Douglas’ 8th Birthday & Baptism

My little Douglas turned 8 (!) on December 4th.

Heather (Heathers Cake Cottage) once again provided a WONDERFUL birthday cake for him!

And here’s a picture of various family members at the baptism. Douglas, Dudley, and Drew in the front row, Grandma, Daniel, Jonah, and Mason in the back row, and Kyle, Grandpa and Sean (sitting) in the far back.

Shellie, Hannah and Madison. Hannah and Maddy played a violin/viola number for us at the baptism.

Rainie played 1/2 of a duet for the closing number with Marva Packer, and Jonah played the second half of the duet.

Grandpa (confirmed Douglas), Seth (Baptized Douglas), Douglas and Drew

And here we (the Wicker’s) are, Dudley, Douglas, Steffanie, and Drew

It was a great night! All our family members (excluding those in El Paso) came and most participated in the program! Thank you everyone!

Thanksgiving Weekend

This post is a little late, but at least I’m getting it posted! Life has been increasingly crazy and the poor blog is being neglected…

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! These first two shots are of the Thanksgiving sunrise at our house. It was nice and warm, and just a pretty morning!

Now onto my new favorite thing.. My new bed! It’s made out of poplar with a cherry veneer.  A slightly different color than my armoires, but notice how the molding on the headboard matches the molding on the armoires? Dude is thinking about staining the armoires to match….we’ll see.. (and yes, I’m looking for a new rug/runner for my side (left in the photo) of the bed)

We were worried about it fitting in our bedroom. I ordered it online because none of the stores had one set up to look at. So it was a guess about how it would look/fit/etc. The delivery men had to finesse the headboard up the stairs (it BARELY made it), and the light switch plate is covered by an inch to allow Dude’s armoire door to open without banging into the bed, but all in all it works in the room!

It has these nifty lights in the headboard, the little brass button thing on the right (with the string hanging from it) controls the 3 way light by touch. Pretty groovy!

It was delivered the day before Thanksgiving. I LOVE it, but both the Dude and I have had to adjust to the new height. We were both uncertain about the sleeping up by the ceiling thing, but I think we’re over that now!  Besides, if we were to lower the mattress (by taking out the platform/box spring) we wouldn’t be able to reach the groovy lights!

The ‘rails’ are actually 2 storage boxes with drawers! I LOVE them! Probably my favorite feature! There is room for a third drawer by the head of the bed, but generally people have nightstands there. In our case we could have used the extra storage, but I’m not going to complain.. I GOT A NEW BED!

Drew thinks it’s great, but has to perform a complicated maneuver to get up on the bed now. He lifts the bed-skirt to find a toe-hold, then uses the footboard to get the rest of the way up. Dudley and I just tend to lean/fall backwards onto it, swinging our legs up with the momentum of the fall. He he he…

Since the dude and I have been together we’ve slept on my old full mattress, the houseboat berth (we crawled into a 3 foot hole to sleep every night), and Kyle’s used headboard with a $20 metal frame. It’s soooo cool to have an nice bed finally!

Happy Christmas to me… happy Christmas to me….