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Amazing Christmas ornament craft!

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I’m so excited about the Christmas ornament project I finally finished today (with moral support from Anna)!

INSPIRATION PHOTO:

I think I saw this on Facebook.

I wanted to do this because we have soooo many ornaments that we don’t always get to use but I miss seeing. And I didn’t want a wreath because I had lots of big ornaments that wouldn’t have fit well around a wreath. (I used a deep mirrored tray.)

So the ornaments range from things I grew up with on my parent’s tree to handmade ornaments from both grandmas to mementos from family and vacations to favorite TV shows and hobbies and favorite things…and more!

It only took about two hours!

I am soooo thrilled with how it turned out!

Olive & Ivy, Day 7

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Finally playing tug!

Sun dogs! You’ll notice Ivy discovered the back of the couch!

And then. They discovered my succulent and we found pieces all over. We blame Ivy because Olive has never once even sniffed that plant.

This is how Ivy often plays—butt straight up in the air. Weirdo.

Olive and Ivy, Day 2

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Ivy explored the main level and played a little with Olive. Olive is a little jealous but they’ve sniffed each other a bunch and then napped together on my lap.

Then since it was a nice sunny day we went outside. And they played and ran and it was a delight to watch!

Time for a harness!
They play so quietly it’s weird!

Oooh, sticks are fun!

A lucky shot!

And then the fun ended when Ivy was digging in the dirt… which earned her a bath!

And later, she refused to walk out the sliding door…but I got this amazing photo.

Fast forward to evening…

It’s official — I’ve lost my damn mind!

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I’ve agreed to get a second dog.

We’d been thinking about getting a cat to have a friend/playmate for Olive, but long story short that’s just not a workable option…so when Tom found Boston puppies locally it sparked the discussion. I still have reservations, but Tom loves to remind me I’ve always said I wanted a fleet of Bostons.

So we discussed it with the kids (Katie was REALLY excited—enough to offer to pay for part!) and discussed it ourselves…and decided to take Olive to meet her and at least see what happened.

The lady warned us that “Sasha” was really shy so everyone was surprised when they got along! (Maggie never got along with other Bostons so we didn’t expect much.) They even ran around and played a bit!

We don’t have a name yet but we get her Monday. ❤️ (We had to put all of Christmas away first.)

BrickFest was a dud.

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We’ve been to a BrickFest before in Virginia and it was AMAZING. So we were excited to go again… Except this one was a complete dud compared to that. Super SUPER disappointing.

There were basically NO displays—the previous one had city blocks, automation (think roller coaster), big things, little things, selfie stations…

This one had some giant creations:

and a very small area of smaller creations like this:

but that was about it. Most of it was lame (for older kids) stuff like “make and race a Lego car”

or “create a glow in the dark Lego” (which Owen did to at least do something).

The kids also did one square of a bigger design—which we would never see.

But man did the store and checkout lines take up a ton of space (conservatively 1/4 of the venue):

This was the best part for me—a local artist who did lilacs. I’m going to need that ASAP.

What was even more disappointing is that we were supposed to go with Anna and family—but long story short they got there after us and got stuck in a huge line and then we discovered it sucked so they just gave up and never made it in.

After we got home I decided to look up the last one we went to…and discovered it wasn’t BrickFest, but was BrickFair. UGHHHHH.