Our Tree

Saturday night Mr. "S" and I went to Wal-Mart to pick out the perfect tree. That didn't happen! At least not at Wal-Mart! The trees at our Wal-Mart were yuck! We jumped in the car and heard to Lowe's where we found the PERFECT tree! The first tree Mr. "S" picked up was the one!!!

BEFORE

AFTER

I feel like something is missing! Mr. "S" said it looked great!

Here are a few of my favorite snowman ornaments!

Our Tree Topper!

Here are a few of our decorations - mostly snowmen!

Our snowman tree skirt!

Fiber Optic Snowman!

Snowman cookie jar! I'm thinking I need to bake some cookies to fill it up!

While I was decorating the house Saturday and the tree on Sunday Mr. "S" and his dad worked, worked, worked on our back deck! It's looking good! After it's complete it will be a 30x12 covered porch!

I still have a lot more decorating to do but this was a start! I'm so excited about our tree! This is the first tree I've had in four years! Yeah, I know ~ 4 years is a little long! I was like a kid in a candy store pulling out all my Christmas snowman decor! It was all new to me since I haven't decorated in so long!

I'm also excited that our family will be gathering at our house for Christmas Eve! This will be the first time my mom has been to our house! I have a lot to get done before the big day! Yall know how I like to host the parties!

Canton Texas Trade Days

Our trip to Canton Texas Trade Days ~ November 28th - November 30th!

This is the place to go if you feel like shopping to you drop!!! This was my first trip to Canton so it was a little over whelming for me!!!

We stayed on "The Mountain"! There is so much to see and do on "The Mountain"! If you are thinking mountain like mountains in Colorado your wrong! Giants Fan if you are thinking mountain as in Stone Mountain that is not the case! What we in Texas call a mountain is not necessarily a mountain! I didn't see a peak. I couldn't see forever and ever and ever away once I hit the top! Don't get me wrong this mountain was steep!!! I know!!! I walked it up and down and all around numerous times!!! More times than I really wanted to!!! There are a ton of things to do and see on the mountain!!! You walk from shop to shop to shop and just shop!!! You can eat on the mountain! We ate at a really yummy steak house about 40 yards away from our cabana! This steak house is only open on Saturdays! I highly recommend marching all the way up the mountain to eat there! It's worth the money and the walk! I'm glad we were staying so close! They might have had to roll me down the hill!!! =)

The map above shows the roads around the mountain!!! These aren't real road because you can't drive up them in a car! At least not on trade day weekends! The only thing I seen go up and down the mountain were people, golf carts and the Lone Star Express (Train Rides)

I took the two above pictures from the "Canton Mountain Website"!

I wanted you to see what the train looked like!

The place we stayed was on the top of the mountain! It was called The Palm Cabanas! It was a cute and very unique place! The owner was as friendly as could be! The pictures I took will show all! lol

Mr. "S" and I stayed in the Zebra Room! When we talked in Mr. "S" asked me if I was going to be Jane in return I asked him if he was going to be Tarzan!

Hey buddy, Don't look at me like that!

A close up of the sink and all the wild decor!

The mascot of the room!

Our bathroom! The walls were covered in zebra print tissue paper! I've seen this done on Trading spaces! It was really cute! My camera didn't do the bathroom justice!!!

The zebra fish in our bathroom!

I loved this fan! The ceiling is also cool they way they decorated it!

Nice kitty-kitty!!

Our porch! We would sit here and watch the Lone Star Express come up the mountain!

This is the front of our cabana!

Now own to my brother and Danielle's room! The Glamour Room which is all decked out with Marilyn Decor!!!

Their bedroom! Check out this decor! Isn't it WILD!!!!

A little side table and chair! So cute! I love it!

The bathroom! They did the same thing with the tissue paper with leopard print! Do you see what I see in this pic?

Another picture of the bathroom! I couldn't get over their elaborate decor!

The shower! I thought I took a picture of the chandelier in the bathroom but I didn't!

Now on to the shopping!

Friday afternoon when we arrived in Canton, checked in our Cabanas and let the rain slake off a bit we were ready for some REAL shopping at the Old Mill Market Place! See the above map! We hit all the shops in red! The long red markings are the 7 covered pavilions we walked! As you can see we didn't make it to see all the vendors! There was so much to see and do and not enough time in the day! After we shopped till dropped and it was dark we grabbed a bite to eat and walked The Mountain shops because they stay open late!

Mountain Shops

Mountain Shops

And More Mountain Shops!

We also came across Karaoke were we pulled up a chair and stayed a while!

This is where we were at on The Mountain jammin to some country Karaoke! Our group wasn't brave enough to get up and sing!

Mr. "S" and I hanging out listening to the music!

Danielle and Lil E.K.

My brother John and Danielle

Miss Tiff - Which is Danielle's brother's girlfriend!

Mona and I hanging out! As you can tell it was very cold out!

Now on to Saturday's shopping!
Canton Trade Days

I didn't take any pictures of the shopping, the food or the pavilions! It was sooooooooooo over whelming! It was packed! It was crazy! It was like something I've never seen before! People warned me! I was in awwwwwww over all the different things the vendors had! I can't get over how crafty some people are! It amazes me! I seen some of the coolest things ever! If I ever have a little girl I'm going back to Canton to decorate her bedroom!!!! It was about as Fru Fru as you could get!

Mr. "S" and Mona were very very sick on Saturday! Mr. "S" was suffering with a bad cold and Mona was suffering from a horrible stomach virus! So we cut out early on shopping! The rest of the group continued on! They shopped till close which was around 5:30pm! They arrived back at the Cabanas a little after dark!

My High School Volleyball Coach (I will call her Coach "W") showed up to hang out with us! I haven't seen here in years (I'm guessing since 2000 when a group of us took a road trip to Tyler, Texas)! I stay in contact with her through email and cards! She lives very close to Canton so I warned her we will be there for the weekend! She gladly came over to hang out! She said normally locals run away from Canton this time of year because of the traffic and shopping madness (I could see why)! lol

Lil EK's mom, me, Coach "W", Lil EK and Danielle - This pic was taken in the Steak House!

Me, Lil EK and Danielle were all volleyball players on Coach "W" team back in the day! She is a GREAT Coach and a WONDERFUL friend!!!

That is our trip to Canton Texas Trade Days! I will do another post about the goodies we bought!

Just one word...

Funny - I was driving to work this morning and seen a cop with his lights on so I slowed down thinking he had someone pulled over! When I passed the cop I noticed he was outside his car trying to get a cow to go back in it's fence! The cow was happily grazing the grass along side the freeway minding her own business! If I have time to spare I would have taken a picture!

Sick - I've drove myself to work the last two days because Mr. "S" has been home sick! I mean sick! He never misses work! Never! He started getting sick on Friday! Needless to say he was sick the whole time we were out of town! The Canton trip wasn't very exciting for him!

Photographic - The frost on the ground this morning was just beautiful! I drove past pasture after pasture on my way to work wanting to stop and take a picture. This was our first real frost of the year!

Excited - I was on the phone last night with Mr. "S" mom! She was telling me about the place we are going to stay when we go to Ohio! She is renting us rooms for one night so all the family can get together, relax, hang out and have some fun! I'm soooooooooooooooo freaking excited!!! Check it out ~ Click HERE! Check out our room HERE! This is going to be a blast! It's America's Largest Indoor Waterpark!!! YIPPEE!!!

Party - Thursday night is my companies Christmas Party! We are going to the Saltgrass Steak House!!!

Parade - Tonight is the Annual Christmas Light Parade! I'm going to miss it since Mr. "S" is at home sick! I need to go home and tend to my patient! Each year we stay after work, order pizza and wait for the parade to pass by our office! I think it gets better and better each and every year!

Cards - I bought my Christmas Cards last night! If you want a Christmas Card from me email your info to musingsfromleftfield[at]yahoo[dot]com! This will be the first year in a long, long time that I've sent cards out! I would LOVE to send you a Christmas Card! I've met soooooooo many wonderful blog friends from all over!

Tree - I'm hoping we put up our Christmas tree this weekend!

Chex Mix - I want to make this soooooooooo bad! I read about it HERE & HERE! YUM-O!

Durango - Something is sooooooooo wrong with the front end of my Durango? It bounces me all over the place - it's totally uncontrollable! I need a new car! I just don't want the car note that goes along with it!

Smart Car - We saw a Smart Car in Canton! Mr. "S" wants a Smart Car! I was shocked that we could even fit in it!

Ornament Swap

I signed up for Julie's Ornament Swap for the 2nd year in a row!!! I'm soooooooooooooooooo LOVING my swap partner The First of Six!!! She sooooooooooo knows what I like!!! =)

I received a whole box of goodies!!!! =)

My sweet note from Beth!!!

Check out all my goodies!!!! I love it all!!!! She really out did herself!!!! I can't wait to get home and light some candles in my new snowflake candle holders!!!

Thank you Beth - The First of Six!!!!