Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everybody!!! I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas full of blessings!!! I'm in New York right now, so that my brother doesn't have to spend Christmas by himself!! :) Christmas in a hotel room is a lot better than it sounds. We're all cozy with no worries, no dishes, no cooking, just spending time together! :) 

  

And just for extra measure here is my favorite version of Carol of the Bells recorded and arranged by my favorite musician brother ever!! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DFChJbg5Mc

I decorated my room.... finally

I can not believe myself. It is exactly one week until Christmas (!!!) and I JUST decorated my room!!! I'm terrible, but I started listening to Christmas music in August, so I guess that makes up for it! I have 9 snowflakes hanging from the ceiling that I made myself! Let me remind the world, and myself that I do not get along well with hot glue guns. It's just a fact. Your fingers get burned, and glued together at the same time! That's just cruelty! However, I am still alive and I have beautiful snowflakes so the burnt fingers were worth it... I hope! So here is a picture of a corner of my room... (the rest looks pretty much the same.... I just couldn't get it all into one picture! :))

5 Ways To Make Your Day Better

So some days you are just not having a good day. You know what I mean. There are those days where nothing is going right and everything seems awful. Yeah I was having one of those days until I did these 5 brilliant things and they made my day 100% better!

1. Listen to this song:

2. Hug your Mom. 

3. Look at this out the window:

4. Wear a reindeer headband:

5. Drink a homemade peppermint mocha:

I hope your day gets better too! 

40 Days until Christmas!!

So today it is officially 40 days until Christmas! (even if it is almost the end of the day) I've got a new blog look!! So now, I am going to do a count down to Christmas, with a Christmas song every day! I'm very excited about this!!!! 

First I'm going to do It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! It's one of the best!!! and isn't it just the most wonderful time of the year?! I mean seriously, you don't get Peppermint Mocha's all year round... there is a reason you just get them this time of year! =D They are so amazing!!! Just like the season!!!!!!!!!! 

Christmas Music!

I'm doing school, (obviously) and I decided that I was in the mood for Christmas music! So I hopped over to my brother's blog and I'm listening to everything!!! Well, almost everything! All my favorites that is... which might as well be everything!!! 

I know, I know, you're thinking, "Christmas music? Is she serious? Christmas was 4 months ago!! Spring finally started and she's listening to Christmas music!! What is wrong with her?" Yeah, I know! There is nothing wrong with me!!! I'm super excited about Spring and all the trees budding and everything being green and beautiful!! I'm so excited to start working in the garden and mowing the lawn and weeding the flowerbeds!! But all this Christmas music is just amazing!!!! So I have to listen to it, and I don't care what you think!!! :) It's happy music!!! I mean really ♪"It's the most wonderful time of the year!"♪ I think this can be sung at the beginning of every season!! :) I hope you have a great week!!!

Buckeyes

Today we're going to talk about one of the most wonderful team in college football... actually we're not. We're going to talk about the most wonderful Christmas candy known to mankind! Buckeyes! (or Peanut Butter Balls if you come from some place up north where they don't like Buckeyes...) These are so good!!! Seriously, it's peanut butter and chocolate, how can you miss?? 

Doesn't it look just amazing?? I love these wonderful candies and I hope you can find a recipe that works for you! (of course I can't possibly share our secret recipe ;)) I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas everyone!!! I hope your day is full of wonderful things!!! This year, we're doing something 'normal'! It's crazy! Ever since we've moved we've done something different every year! This year, we're not going to New York, my brother's family is staying here, and we're just going to have a 'quiet' Christmas! 

Here is a beautiful Christmas song for you today! 

"Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace, goodwill to men"

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

More Christmas Music!

Christmas is right around the corner!!! Everyone is so excited!!! My mom took us to the mall today and we went shopping!! It took forever, but it was mostly enjoyable. (I don't really like shopping very much...) As far as I know, some people bought gifts, so it was a successful shopping trip! 

Anyway, the Christmas song that I'm going to share with you today is one that my wonderful brother showed me last year. It's on one of the Christmas CD's that we just have here at home, but we never actually listen to the whole CD. However this song was hidden and we had to discover it! It's called "A Strange Way To Save The World" and it's sung by 4Him. I really hope you enjoy it as much as we do!!!

The Christmas Shoes

I'm not just trying to copy Michael, but I like Christmas songs, and it's only 8 days until Christmas so I just have to do some Christmas songs!!! They just happen to be the same ones that Michael posts because he posts good Christmas songs!!

Anyway, the song I'm going to share with you today is called Christmas shoes. This song is very touching and the first time I listened to it I cried so much! I don't cry so much anymore but sometimes when I listen to it I cry. Our old, old church from before we moved once did "The Christmas Shoes" as the Christmas play. I don't remember much, except that I was told to be quiet and not bother anyone, I was kind of young. Anyway, once we were listening to the radio on the way home from church here, and it played and it was so touching, I just loved it! Anyway, here it is, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! :)

Another Christmas song!

Christmas is just right around the corner! (If you follow my brothers blog, it's 18 days away!! Remind him that he's still a day behind!) So today I'm going to share one of my most favorite Christmas songs! (of course they are all my favorite... ;)) It is "Pat a Pan" by David Archuleta!!!!! I love this song and how he sings it, it's so fast and exciting!!! :) I hope you like it as much as I do! 

Bugler's Holiday

Today I'm going to share a Christmas song with you all!!!! The song is none other than Bugler's Holiday!!! 

This song has very special meaning to me and my family. Our first violin teacher had an arrangement of this for three violins and piano and every Christmas we would play it!!! It was always so much fun! I have amazing memories of rehearsing and performing it with everyone there! Then after we moved we discovered the original (with three trumpets and orchestra) and I love it even more now that I've heard it!!!!! Every time I listen to it I just start smiling because it's so cheerful and happy!!! It is such a catchy tune we (my brother and I) sometimes like to hum it in parts in the car!!! It's so much fun!!! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!!!!!!