Posted in Holiday on Dec 26th, 2007 8 Comments »
This year I participated in Pink Christmas. I first heard about this ‘girlfriend gift exchange’ last year and waited all year long to sign up to do it myself. Basically you get to know someone you don’t necessarily know either through a questionnaire they fill out or through their blog. Then you HANDMAKE something for [...]
Posted in Holiday, Kids on Dec 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
We had a full Christmas Eve day getting little projects done around the house and getting it cleaned up for Christmas. The sense of anticipation has been high all day as we continually tried to rein in the kids’ excitement to no avail. Caleb was in high gear cleaning his room and even vacuuming it [...]
Posted in Caleb, Emma, Recipes on Dec 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Now that it is winter time we love having soups. While we were at my mom’s house for Thanksgiving she served a soup called “Hoagie Poagie.” I have made it before but not too often. Caleb couldn’t stop talking about this “Hoagie Poagie”; ‘It is SO good – we have to have this at home, [...]
Posted in Church, Holiday on Dec 19th, 2007 3 Comments »
We had the opportunity this year to gather some gifts for a family in our church branch who otherwise would not have had a Christmas. With the way things turned out I had to go to the store to purchase some items with the money that was donated. That meant taking the kids with me. [...]
Posted in Church on Dec 15th, 2007 3 Comments »
Phew! We made it through our first Primary Activity as a presidency. I am glad it’s over but I’m happy with how it turned out. We have 19 active kids in Primary (not saying they all come on the same weeks) and we had just over 20 kids there as some siblings from nursery came. [...]
Posted in Holiday, Kids on Dec 10th, 2007 3 Comments »
[mygal=2007_gingerbread] Every year we try to do a gingerbread house. I love the Wilton kits because it makes this huge project with kids not seem so bad. The kids and I glued the house together last night for Family Home Evening and then I let the kids have free-reign on it today for the decorating. [...]
Posted in Hannah on Dec 9th, 2007 6 Comments »
Yesterday Hannah turned 5 years old. She has known it’s been coming but isn’t to the point of counting down days yet. She just knew it was before Christmas. So when I told her on Thursday that her birthday was in two more days, her jaw dropped and she was so excited! We had her [...]
Posted in Kids, Random Acts of Kindness on Dec 7th, 2007 5 Comments »
This is our first week out of school since we’re off for the month of December. I feel so rejuvenated being able to actually get things done. I mean, I have cleaned my house this week!!! I got Christmas presents boxed up and sent and a ton of other errands that have just been waiting [...]
Posted in Cami on Dec 7th, 2007 3 Comments »
You may remember that this has happened before – this time Chris was home to experience how scary it is when it happens. We were getting ready for dinner. Not just getting dinner ready but actually having the kids get up to the table while I was pouring glasses of milk (Chris had just gotten [...]
Posted in Holiday on Dec 3rd, 2007 5 Comments »
For Family Home Evening last night we decided to put up our Christmas tree. Of course, it’s a lot easier said than done. We basically have to ‘build’ our tree from top to bottom and though it is fun to see it come together, it’s a long process . . . made only longer by [...]