let me update you.

first update:  THE CRAFT HOUSE.
boom.
you girls are filling the Craft House weekends up like nobody’s business!
i am so pumped about that!!
i had a lot more questions about it so i am going to leave the sale ongoing through december 31st.

How about i offer the January 31 – Feb 2 date for $1000?  
who will fill that weekend?
i think it should be YOU are your girlfriends!

Reserving the Craft House for a weekend is $1500 for up to 16 guests.
but if you book any 2014 date NOW… you can get it for just $1200.
look at your calendars… get your girls together and meet up at the Craft House!

January 31 – Feb 2
February 14 – 16
March 7 – 9
March 28 – 30
April 25 – 27

all of these dates are soon enough that you can be getting excited right now!
they are all that is left in the next four months.

but if you need more planning time (husbands and childcare and all that jazz…) pick a summer or fall date and get your savings now!

think how nice it will be to have something on the calendar FOR YOU.

if you are thinking about planning an event or workshop… now is the time.  🙂

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second update:  #32in44

on dec 7 my friend and i ran in the Jingle Bell 4 mile run for the third year.
it was 3* degrees.
you read that correctly… THREE degrees.
but we had been planning on it and preparing for it and honestly… it was no big deal at all.
she brought hand warmers for inside our gloves (which eventually i even took out because i was too warm)
we each had on three pairs of pants, two pairs of socks, four shirt layers, and everything but our eyes covered.
i ran the entire way and it was the best Jingle Bell Run i have done yet.
11 minute pace… for me that is great!
Di slows way down for me and i greatly appreciate that.
and then we went to the spa for the rest of the day.  
but then the next day i got really sick (i claim they are unrelated) and was out for many days.
so there is no way i will make my #32in44 BUT that is ok and i will still keep trying hard.
and you should too if you can.
we will feel so much better about everything if we keep exercising and eating well… right?

i think so.

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third update:  christmasy stuff.

still no more decorating has happened.
and it is 100% ok.
i am setting up a craft table after this blog post for when the girls get home from school today.
it will be such a nice surprise.

as far as christmas shopping goes… i feel like i have a good handle on it all.
the buying is all done.
it is an odd feeling… but a good one.
AND i have some REEEEEEALLLY good gifts that i am so stinking excited to give.

each of the kids got their own time shopping with me or with dad to pick out their gifts for their siblings.
one on one time is always different and nice.

annie bought herself a cake pop maker this weekend during our sibling shopping time.
she was beyond excited, carrying it around the store dreaming up all the cake pops she would create and talking non stop.
i think it was a good choice!
many cake pops are in our future!

we went to check out christmas lights this past weekend also.

this picture is awful but i don’t ever want to forget sean having a full on laugh attack when we got out of the car.
he could not stop.
he was crying he laughed so hard.
it was hysterical.

looking at christmas lights always goes best with donuts.
it’s a fact.

 

now… time to get the crafts set up.