A Day to Remember

I posted about December 22 and I wanted to

share what the little guy's day was like.

Shaking the birthday presents, is allowed.

See the orange/snowman wrapped present?

(he picked the paper,btw)

It says, please lift me.

He lifted and found...

Freddy and Eddy.  He actually got these

little guys alittle early.  We just wanted

to have them be in on the celebration!

Here is a picture of the final birthday cake. I am hoping

you can figure out what it is.  Maybe that will be what you

have to guess this week. :-)

Looks pretty excited about it, doesn't he!

Guess he liked it. Daddy made it for him.

We were blessed to have two sets of grandparents

and family from South Dakota be here

for the party.  We enjoyed the time spent together

and a fun time was had by all.

Some family wrestling went on as well.

If you are family, you know what I am

talking about.

It was a great 9th birthday!

A Collection-Part 2

So here we are with part 2 of my collection.

This is another one that is quite "old", I believe I

have had it longer than I have been married. I light

a candle behind it and it "just glows".

It is another one of those I just love!

This is another nativity my mom bought me.

She collects Little People, and in fact has one

of these herself.

If you push the angel, she plays

"O Little Town of Bethlehem"

and the star lights up.

You can still purchase this from F.P.

This would be my newest.  T bought this set for me

for our anniversary this year.  I know a lot of people don't

like stained glass, but I knew it would make a great addition

to my collection.

This is a miniature nativity.  You can probably tell just by

the size of the figure next to it.  This belongs with my

 P.M. Sugar Town set.

This is new this year as well.

It feels like finger jell-o,

but at least it sticks to my fridge!

This set always sits in my kitchen window.

It came from the dollar store (just being

honest) and if it gets broke,

it is no big deal!

Luc made this in Sunday School

about 5 years ago.  I make sure

 it is always packed away very

carefully.

And this final one is the most precious of all.

It is the very first nativity of my married life.

T and I picked this out together the first

Christmas we were married.

This actually started my collection of

P.M. figures.

Merry Christmas to all my blog readers!

May we remember the true meaning of Christmas.

A Collection-Part 1

I collect nativities.

I admit it.

I am not ashamed of it.

Some are very small.

Some are new.  I purchased this last Christmas on sale.

I love it,  I really love it!

I have had this one for a quite a few years.

Maybe even 10.

WOW, I've had it for a while.

This one is by PlayMobile.  My mom bought this one

for me when my older children went through that stage.

The figures are very elaborate.  You should see the

wise men.  But then, they weren't there in Bethlehem.

So I can't show them to you.

This is another set I have had for a while.  The stable is new,

and I only just realized when I took this picture there is a hole

in the back.  I am not sure why, oh well,  it works.

I had one more for this post, but it got deleted when I tried to

move the text around.  I will have to remember to add it in to

part 2.

December 22

I love you very much!  I hope you have a great day.

I have scheduled this post for the exact time you were born 9 years ago.

December 22, 2000

9:00am

Where were you that Friday?  Do you remember what you did or were doing?

Merry Christmas from my little group of toys!

The Answer

You girls are all so funny!

Good try Grape, you made me smile.

Momma, you always come up with something good!

But I laughed out loud when I read Berger Bites.  You are too funny!  Having a new baby must really agree with you!


APPELLATION: ap-uh-ley-shuhn
–noun

1.	a name, title, or designation.

2.	appellative (def. 1).

3.	the act of naming.

Sorry to say, not a one of you were on the right path!  Thanks for playing, see you in the new year!

Cut Your Own Tree

We had never before cut our own Christmas tree.

It was something I had always wanted to do, but

our busy schedules seemed to hinder us.  So,

this year we made it a priority.

Saturday was a very busy day for us.  We started

the day with a children's Christmas party, headed to

church for play practice and then home to get bundled

up to head here-

A local Christmas tree farm.  As you can see it was a

beautiful day.  The sun was shinning, there was not a

cloud in the sky and there was hardly any wind.

Heading out to the field of trees

Beth's extremes from the very small and cute

to the extremely large and gorgeous!

We knew that we could not get a tree any taller than 7 feet.

Boy, was it challenging!  They had some really beautiful trees.

Ty found this one!

Luc really wanted to cut our tree this year, too.

His looked just a little tall as well.

Our final pick.  Everyone really was happy! It was

the one Ty found!

Trying his hand at cutting down the tree. It was harder

than he thought it would be. Dad finished it for him.

But he was able to help trim it up a bit.

Maneuvering our way out of the maze of trees.  It was like

playing follow the leader and hope the leader knew the way out!

Our big, strong tree carrier, Ty!  Yup, I even made it

into a picture. Don't you think I look great!

Even Lys wanted to hand at helping with the tree.

We came home happy with our 7 foot, $20.00 Christmas tree.

We hope to go back next year and have as much fun as we

did this year! I would encourage everyone to try it.

Final Word for 2009

Hi, All!

Are you feeling overwhelmed and frazzled?  Are you tired and running behind schedule?

I am.

But then, it isn't unusual for this time of year.  With Thanksgiving, the ending of the
second quarter, shopping, getting ready to celebrate a birthday and Christmas
preparations, I get just a bit...grumpy, irritable, and I tend to lose some of the
holiday spirit.  So, this year I have decided to not be quite so OCD about it.
I have taken on the attitude of simply being happy if I get something
accomplished during the day.

All that being said, today will be the last word of the week until sometime after
the new year.  I need to take a little break from my computer.  Oh wait!
I will still have to be on the computer, but I will have to be doing my "work"
and not "playing".

Here it is, are you ready?

~APPELLATION~

GO!

For C

We love you and we hope you have a great birthday!

Field Trip

Monday we took a field trip to a local museum.  We went to peruse the gingerbread gallery and to walk through the rest of the museum for information regarding our state history. Lys will be starting state history after Christmas vacation and we wanted to get a head start on some of the work.

The children all enjoyed themselves and both Beth and Lys took a lot of pictures.  Me, not so much.  A couple on  my phone, but that's all.

These came from Beth's camera, I hope you enjoy our field trip.

Sitting on a boat

"Sleeping" on a boat

Playing checkers with painted corn cobs

Noah's Ark in gingerbread

The one on the left was one of the favorites,

it was cabin, lake and beaver dam.

It was quite good.

This would require a whole lot more patience that I have.

It was really pretty though!

Tuesday Is Here Again~Updated

Oh my!  I simply cannot believe how fast the time is going!  Between school, running teens to work, Christmas play practice, church and taking a field trip.  We have been sooooooooooooo busy!

We took a day yesterday and went to the Erie Canal Museum. Plus we spent the day running errands, and I do mean all day!

I hope to post about that trip sometime this week. 

Here is our word- I will be waiting to hear from you!


~IRASCIBLE~[i-ras-uh-buhl]


–adjective

1.	easily provoked to anger; very irritable: an irascible old man.

2.	characterized or produced by anger: an irascible response.

Berger Bites gets points for making me laugh!  Thanks for playing!

Here is a hint about the next post.

Gingerbread, Anyone?

Tuesday we spent our afternoon working on these.

Ty & Beth worked mainly on the barn and the assembling of both.

This was their first attempt at creating gingerbread houses.

No, we did not make the gingerbread.  We bought

the kits and then tweaked them with our own ideas.

Can you tell who "tweaked" this?

Lys & Luc worked on this with a little help

from everyone.

We made the house/barn to take to our homeschool meeting.

When all was said and done, they came in 3rd place.

They were very excited and are already talking about

next year.  They want to make their own gingerbread

in hopes that it will be easier to work with.  I have even heard talk

of lights being used! Oh my!

Can you tell that the Christmas spirit has come to out house?

Disclaimer:  We made a HUGE mess and they took a lot of time.

But everyone had a great time, so it was worth it!

If they do it again next year, they really need to start a few days ahead of time.

 

A New Month, A New Word-Updated

Welcome to December! The days are just racing by! 


Do you have your Christmas shopping done?  

How about birthday shopping? 

Oh, you don't have any birthdays in December.  Smart people.  Some of us weren't so good with that "planning" of that!  I think I am doing pretty good with all my shopping.  I really just have to organize everything and get it ready to wrap/mail.


Today our word is:

~ELUCIDATES~[i-loo-si-deyt] 
–verb (used with object)

1.	to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain: an explanation that elucidated his recent strange behavior.

–verb (used without object)

2.	to provide clarification; explain.

Grape News you were on the right track! Momma, one cannot expect too
much of an expectant mother who is also working full-time! 
Berger Bites you make me laugh! And not just about the
definition! Thanks for playing girls!


This is another one of the words I talked about before
our little vacation.

Speaking of vacation, we enjoyed a really fun, relaxing, filling Thanksgiving.

The break from school was enjoyed by everyone! We
are now headed into the final week of the second
quarter.

Which means, we are HALF-WAY through with school!

Praise the Lord!