It's a wrap!

The presents are all unwrapped and our house is sprinkled with toys. Christmas 2010 is officially a wrap!

It was the best Christmas I can remember! We spent lots of time doing festive things, hanging out with family, and working many a candlelight services at Church of the Highlands.

We made cookies...



We feed reindeer...



We enjoyed all of our Christmas Cards! Thanks so much for sending them!



We opened lots of gifts...



...at 6am. Notice it is still dark outside!




And I finally got my dream of a white Christmas!!!!





We also celebrated Brendan's Birthday!!! We love him so much and he is such a blessings to this family!

He has been wanting a remote control helicopter for some time (kid at heart) so that's what he got this year...



It has been flying around the house all weekend!



Collins loved it... NOT!



So there you have it. The Fuller family Christmas.

That Baby in a manger has been so good to us!!

We truly are a blessed family!!

Courtney

Iced Houses

We have been very busy around here. Not in a running in circles kind of way, but a good way! Spending lots of time with friends and family, not to mention lots of play groups with school being out. I have been in the kitchen a lot making super cute jars of honey butter and lots of chocolate pies... and I didn't take a picture of any of it.

Honestly, I've been far to busy living life to capture it.

However, when it was time to make gingerbread houses I did break out the camera:







Christmas is exhausting...



I am trying to lay off the computer some lately. Is it just me, or can it become all consuming??

Staying on Facebook or reading blogs puts me in a weird funk. It makes me discontent, envious, jealous, and disillusioned. So I am trying to keep this laptop closed. I still want to blog on occasion, but that's it. I am really looking forward to January where I plan to fast the internet all together!

Focusing on CHRISTmas,

Courtney

Sparks of Change

By far my favorite thing about my home is the fireplace. It is one of the huge benefits of a 1950's home :)

Our fireplace has seen lots of love through the years. We literally burn around the clock in the winter and all that burning has caused the bricks to become weak, so Bren had to re-brick the inside. I figured since the inside got a face lift so should the outside :)

This is what things looked like a couple of days ago...



This is what things look like tonight...



I got a great idea from this blog and decided to breakout my tools and get to work.



It literally took an hour! Bren cut and nailed, and I roughly painted and added the hinges.



So whatcha think? Doesn't it add to the mantel a whole lot! So happy to have something fresh to look at :) Oh and that mirror that was above the mantel... don't be sad for it, it's getting a makeover too!

One last thing : The painting I was working on in the last post was a family tree for Bren's parents. They have received it, so now I can blog about it :)



Courtney

He's come a long way...

Jack and his relationship with Santa that is.

Two years ago:


This year:


Collins has a very long way to go...



Pure terror:


Hope Santa leaves him a little something anyways :)

Just in full Christmas swing around here:

Jacks annual Christmas concert at preschool. Can't believe this is his last one :(



And Picasso Me painting a few gifts :)



Certainly in the Christmas spirit around here!

Courtney

Diggin' Denver

Seriously, can I tell you how much I loved Denver?!?!

We had the best time! We felt like young kids dating in a cool place without a care in the world!



We toured every nook and cranny of that great city, visited Red Rocks, visited Golden - home of Coors (as in beer) plant...



We also went snowmobiling and had the best time ever! It certainly topped our list of funnest things we have ever done. The pictures really don't do it justice... but I'll share any way's :)



Brendan standing on the Continental Divide. The ski runs of Winter Park in the background.





Our friends Alex and Ashley hooked us up with an awesome vacation and a seriously cool place to stay. We are totally jealous of their early 1900's Craftman style home. Everything about that house made me drool... speaking of drool, did I mention they just had a super sweet baby Hudson?



This is in his nursery. His momma got the cards off Etsy and the window frame came from their house.



What a great idea that was!

These are some other pics of my dream house :)





Had such a great time!! Made memories that will last forever!

Courtney