One of my favorite things to do in all of my spare time (ha!) is to look for fun and unique things online.  While I’ve been doing my Christmas shopping online, I’ve come across a few things that I thought were so cool and unique and would be fun to share and maybe give you some gift ideas!

Uncommon Goods is one of my FAVORITE places to find unique items!  It’s the place I go when I have to get something for the person that has everything, you know we all have at least one!

1.  The first thing I found from there is this cool Grandparents Journal.  I have lost all of my grandparents, and Tony only has one grandparent still living and one ofour favorite keepsakes is a book that was written by an author that interviewed his Grandpa about his life.  He put it together and we all got copies and it’s justone of the most valuable keepsakes we have.   So, I know that someday our children will appreciate having something along these lines as well as a keepsake and to know more about their heritage and family history.

2.  Another find from the same site is for the golfers in your life (and we have a LOT in our lives!)  It’s this neat little Golf Scorecard Keeper.  You can attach your scorecards from your best rounds or famous courses you’ve played and jot down a few notes from the round as well.

3.  If you know me at all, you know that I am obsessed with Etsy.  For Mother’s day, I bought myself got a mother’s necklace from the Vintage Pearl.  I just love having it with the kids’ names on it and their birth stones.  This would make an awesome gift for any mommy for Christmas morning! 

4.  The last find for today are these great little storage/totes/containers from Baffin Bags.  I have several of these that I use in my office and they’re great for the bathroom to hold toilet paper, toiletries, or just about anything else that you want to have available, but concealed in a fashionable way.  She even has some holiday stylesa available now as well!

I’m hoping to be able to post some Fun Finds on a regular basis, so stay tuned and I’d love to hear about what Fun Finds you have found too!

I *think* we’re ready.  At least I hope we are!  All that’s left for me to do is order the groceries (I’m doing this online and then going to pick them up on Wednesday I think).  All of the presents have been purchased and wrapped and I cannot wait to GIVE all of our gifts this year.  It’s definitely more fun than receiving!

Last Friday Tyson had his little Christmas program at preschool.  While the program consisted mostly of a local choir singing some songs, at the end, the kids got to join them and sing a few songs.  they were SO cute!  And Tyson did great and knew most all of the words to the songs (and I could even hear his cute little voice singing).

Here’s a little snippet of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.  He get’s VERY into it about 1/3 of the way in.

Last night I was playing with a fun little technique on how to get “shaped” bokeh.  This was a good learning experience for me because for the first time ever, I had to manually focus.  But it was SO cool!  I’m trying to figure out what other shapes I could do…

This was just a starburst sort of shape

This was my attempt at a snowflake shape, but clearly, I need to work on my snowflake cutting skills…maybe Tyson can help me!

And last, but not least, Christmas tree bokeh!

So, what do you think?

This will probably be the last year that we’ll be in our little house for the Holidays (more to come on that soon I’m hoping!)  So, it was very bittersweet digging out all of our Christmas stuff.  We are taking it easy this year and I’m not putting up my Christmas in the City village, but it will definitely be up in our new house next year.   Tony was VERY happy to be digging everything out of the crawl space for the LAST time.  He only said maybe 15 curse words this year instead of the usual 50 or so

Tyson was AWESOME at decorating the tree this year.  As you may recall last year, he concentrated the majority of the bulbs in ONE spot on the tree.  But this year, he was a decorating rock star and even wanted to put the star on the top on (which I tried to let him help with, but it’s Swarovski, man!)

Here’s Tyson hard at work and VERy focused

And since his Daddy was making weird faces and poses for the camera, guess who else had to do it??!

And I’m SO proud of myself for taking all of these without any flash (yay, me!)

More focus and concentration…

That smile…and my attempt at getting some Xmas tree bokeh!

What the Princess thinks of our Xmas tree…let’s pray she doesn’t start crawling until after it’s all down because then I think she’ll LOVE it!

And I’m in LOVE with our new stockings that I splurged on this year.  And it was awesome to finally be able to use the 5th stocking holder that I’ve had for the last 5 years

Had SO much fun taking this pic, I’ve always wanted to get one with the “glow” of the Christmas Tree.  It took my tripod and lots of test shots, but I LOVE it!

It’s been so awesome getting these annual ornaments, someday I’ll have a whole tree full I hope!