Jade's Birthday Dinner And Christmas Decorating....

After I got home from work on Friday, I wrapped Jade's gifts and did some laundry.  I finally got to take a nap but it wasn't a long one.  I think I slept for about 1 hour & 15 minutes and then I had to get back up and get ready for Jade's birthday dinner out with the girls.

Jade decided that she wanted to go to Olive Garden for her birthday meal.  (I wasn't shocked, this is her favorite place to eat)  Lolly, Jade, and Nearly all met me at our house.  I was almost finished getting ready and after we regrouped, Nearly drove us across town to have some yummy dinner!

We had a fun time at dinner.  We just talked and laughed a whole bunch while stuffing ourselves silly.  At some point over dinner, we decided we needed to go to the porn shop afterwards to see if we could find anything interesting.  Heehee!  We were talking about 50 Shades of Grey and of course, our own sexcapades.  That's what girls talk about when they're alone!

Off to Nancy's Nook we went:


Guess who bought this gem?

Keeping in the spirit of reading our books here lately, Lolly decided to go all Christian Grey on Camo Man's ass cheeks and bought this riding crop.  HELLO!  We all spanked each other's behinds with it while we looked at other things.  Hey, we had to make sure it worked properly right?  (PS, now I want one too!  LOL)


Since Lolly and Camo are engaged now, we took a good look at the bachelorette party products. 

A pecker shaped glo-stick?!  I bought Cat Mama (remember this is Jade's 13 year old daughter) 20 glo-sticks for her birthday as a joke because she said something to me about wanting 80 of them so I thought I would get her started.  Lolly said maybe I should have gotten her some of these instead.  LMAO!  I've never seen these before.  Too funny.

We have seen and did see some super weird shit during our time at the porn shop.  I think this one was one of the most disturbing things I've seen in a while.  The name made me crack up laughing because it reminded me of Supa's favorite Carowinds ride.


Please say hello to, "The Intimidator".

Holy fucking shit, dude.  Just to know that there are people out there, trying to shove this inside of them is enough to give a person nightmares.  Lolly and I had to pick it up to get a good picture and this thing is heavy too!  GROSS!!!  I was embarrassed to be holding it long enough to get a good photo (and it's very hard to embarrass me).

When we were finished buying up half the store amusing ourselves, we went back to my place for presents and cake leftover pumpkin pie. 

Since I already bought Jade her tattoo for her birthday, she only had two little things to open from Supa, the kids and I.

I didn't have a card or tags (hell, I already gave her the card a week ago!) so I used mini sticky notes! 



Her very own Survivor buff!  This one is from the current season too!

The Survivor buff is kind of an inside joke.  Grampa and Aunt Darling have about a million of them and have passed the obsession onto the kids, Supa and I.  Of course, when Jade saw mine, she wanted one too.  Dazzle loaned her one until she got her own.  I guess I should remind her to return Dazzle's now.  LOL.  Jade, we officially welcome you to the buff club.  :)

The other gift was a magnet with a picture of Jade and I on it.  Good stuff!

We were so full from our fabulous dinner that we didn't have room to even eat pie!  We hung out for a little while and then everyone went on home.  We were all super tired.

Saturday, Supa and I ran a bunch of errands.  I'm going to give the short version since most of them are no very exciting:

--Supa and Neon's hair cuts (golly my boys looked handsome!)

--Sally's for new fingernail polish.  Supa went inside with me and picked out 3 of the 5 colors that I bought.  :)

--Home Depot for a staple gun to hang the lights on the house (thank you again for that gift card, Uncle Darling!)

--Pet's Inc to get dog food and bones for chewing

--Walmart for party supplies

--Bilo for BOGO bread!

--Subway to pick up lunch

FINALLY, we went home to unload and eat our lunch.  Shortly after lunch, R.J.A.T.W showed up and we started putting up the Christmas decorations.

The men put the tree together while Dazzle, Neon and I worked on the other inside decorations.  We got most of it completed but we didn't quite finish.  I kind of shocked myself at how many Christmas decorations we have now.  LOL, I guess I went a little overboard buying them after Christmas last year. 

We had to stop decorating to get ready for our football party.  The big Carolina/Clemson football game was that night and we had a few friends coming over to party.  I was almost finished getting ready and had just started painting my nails when everyone arrived.

I know you can't really tell but this was pale pink (Nearly's idea) with snowflake glitter on top (Supa's idea). 

Our party consisted of Supa, myself, Lolly, Camo Man, Jade, Nearly Perfect and R.J.A.T.W.  We decided to keep it small and personal because everyone was so tired from our already busy weekend. 

I made sausage dip and ranch dip.  We had two different kinds of chips and mini ham sandwiches (thank you for Thanksgiving leftovers!).  We also had mini cupcakes that I made and leftover pumpkin pie.  YUM!

Our team won the game and even though we were all very wore out, we had a great time.  Good food, good game, good company.  Amen. 

R.J.A.T.W spent the night so that he could help Supa with the outside lights in the morning.

We got up and got straight to work Sunday morning:

I knew I bought a bunch of bows last year but I didn't realize I got this many.  :)

What can I say?  They were a dime each!!

This is the first year we have ever decorated the outside of our house for Christmas.  We have never been able to afford the lights or the ladder that this project would require.  I was very excited to see how it would go and to see if it would turn out the way I imagined.


I finally have a program to edit pictures on that's easy to use!

That's Supa up there on the ladder trying to get the lights "just right".  LOL

R.J.A.T.W was helping him (as much as he could from down on the ground) and offering moral support.  

This is the other half of the house.

It's hard to tell what it will look like in the dark.  Supa said I didn't buy near enough lights (WTF, I bought TONS of them!  I guess the house is bigger on the outside than I thought it was!)

I think he did a great job seeing as how this was his very first attempt. 

Or course, it didn't turn out how I imagined in my head but I still think it's really pretty.  The kids were very proud of their Dad and I know it will only get better each year.  (Plus, I'm buying many more lights for next year :)  I like the net lights on the bushes but we need about 10 more sets.  LOL

There are red bows on each black shutter...Unfortunately you can't see those in the dark.

I think the kids and I did a pretty good job with the inside.  Dazzle asked if she could take pictures of everything for my blog so she could get extra practice in for her journalism class.  I definitely could use a photographer so I handed over my camera.

This is as soon as you walk into the front door.  I love a blue foyer!



Same scene with the light on this time. 



The icicles above the kitchen table and around the light are new. 



More blue lights in the doorway leading into the kitchen.



Haha!  Same doorway, light on!



I liked this close up shot of part of the mantle.



We are a four person family with at least 10 stockings.  LOL Santa better get busy!



I love to decorate my movie shelves!!!

 I'm pretty sure I'll have to buy another shelf soon since I'm running out of space.  Yay, more space to decorate!  LOL

We went with blue garland and white lights this year.  I like to shake it up a bit so it looks different.



Dazzle was practicing taking photos at different angles. 

We were all tired after all the decorating was finished.  R.J.A.T.W went home to get ready for the week.  We didn't feel like cooking dinner so we went to Fatz.  YUM!  When we got back home, no one had any energy to do anything except lay on the couch and watch some TV until bedtime.

And then...It was Monday all over again!

We really had a nice Thanksgiving holiday and I hope everyone else did too.  I can't believe Christmas is coming so quickly! 

Laters,

Apple