Christmas Tree

I know I am late getting these pictures up. We have had our trees up since the weekend after Thanksgiving but I wanted to share them with you.



Our new tree in the kitchen...my snowman tree!



Our living room tree





Snowman Craft

When we remodled our living room and I was thinking of what I wanted to hang on the walls I thought what would be better than to display our childrens artwork. Last week I decided to let the kids make snowmen for their frames. I gave them lots of supplies, even told them to get twigs from outside. The idea was this was their masterpiece and to make it the way they wanted to. I think they turned out great and wanted to share them with you!




Bryanna's is on the left, BW's on the right. If you look carefully at Bryanna's she even added a Charlie Brown Tree.



I Love Christmas

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving and now we are on to the Christmas Holiday. I love Christmas...my favorite holiday! Not only is it the time to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior but I love the time spent with family and friends. The decorations, smells of candles and the baking. I miss having my dad around to spend it with but I know where he is and that makes it so much easier.

The other night BW told us that we didnt have to buy him any presents he just wanted us to celebrate Christmas. We asked him how he wanted to celebrate and this is what he said "singing, dancing, decorating or anything like that". That of course melted my heart. But of course when we started wrapping presents last night and there was some for him that excited him. I love to hear the kids try to guess what is in the box when they put a present under the tree....so funny!

We are also adding in some fun things each day by doing crafts or baking something together. Tonight I have a little surprise for them we are going to meet some family and friends and go see a movie.

What kinds of special things do you do during this holiday season?

Christmas

Hello everyone, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. We had a very good Christmas, but very busy. The kids got way to much stuff as usual, and we eat way to much. The kids both got a nintendo ds and when they opened their boxes their faces were priceless, you see we told them we couldn't get them so they were totally surprised.

They both wanted some boots, Bryanna wanted pink boots and BW wanted toy story boots. Of course Bryanna got littlest pet shop stuff, a keyboard, some clothes and a few other things. BW got a few more pokemon, a batman cave, a Mr Potato Head along with a few more things. Still missed daddy being here and I think it made things even worse without my brother being home for Christmas(he had to work), but we did enjoy the family time together that we had. I enjoy spending time with my family because you never know when they will be here no longer. Every moment I have with them is precious.

Christmas

Christmas was definitely different this year with dad being gone. But you know my dad spent his first Christmas in heaven, what a great gift to know where he is and to know that I will see him again. The kids were so excited they were counting the days down last week. We had a good time with our family, we cried, we laughed and we ate and ate. The grandkids took a group picture with my grandma and we(the grandkids) gave her an apron with our handprints on it. I thought of this a couple of weeks ago and thought this would be a treasure to her. We even added spouses and soon to be spouses to the apron. Somehow with everything going on I missed getting a picture of her with the apron on, I will get one and post it later for you guys to see it turned out so good. So for now some pictures of the kids.

Just what she wanted an mp3 player,

of course it is pink.

He was even excited over clothes!

BW in his new jeep.

Gingerbread Houses

We went to a Christmas Party today and the kids had a lot of fun. They got to make gingerbread houses and of course mama was there with the camera. So here are a few shots of their houses, I thought they turned out so cute. Enjoy!!!