Happy Birthday Jesus!

What does Christmas mean to you? Gifts, turkey, lights, Santa, or snow?? It was so fun to listen to my boys talking the other day as they discussed Christmas. Of course they were excited about presents... their wishlist had been a mile long, thanks to the Sears wishbook!! But then they switched gears and talked about what we were going to do as a family over Christmas, the main thing they kept saying was that it was a birthday party for Jesus.... that's right!

The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means, "God with us." (Matthew 1:23)

Merry Christmas everyone, and remember the reason we celebrate is because God gave us the best gift.... baby Jesus in the manger 2000 years ago. What a great gift.


(Christmas card from Hilda D. Thanks!!!!)

Christmas surprises...

A couple days ago, Lisa dropped in and gave me these nice surprises.... a beautiful hand crafted card:

And these awesome little treat packages. What a nice surprise! Thanks so much Lisa, we will enjoy them for sure!

Retiring Accessories

Click here to see the updated Retiring Accessories List.

Scrapbook Club pages

Here is the layout we did for December with my scrapbooking clubs... I used the song Once Upon a December as my inspiration! See if you can find some of the aspects of the song in the layout..... hint - there are no dancing bears or horses on this page, you have to think more abstract than that!!!

If you want to watch the music video by Deana Carter, Click on the song title below, and then hit "click here to watch video"

Once Upon a December

Dancing bears,
Painted wings
Things I almost remember
And a song someone sings
Once upon a December

Someone holds me safe and warm
Horses prance through a silver storm
Figures dancing gracefully
Across my memory...

Far away, long ago
Glowing dim as an ember,
Things my heart used to know,
Once upon a December

Someone holds me safe and warm
Horses prance through a silver storm
Figures dancing gracefully
Across my memory...

Far away, long ago
Glowing dim as an ember,
Things my heart used to know,
Things it yearns to remember...

And a song someone sings
Once upon a December

Merry Christmas card

Here's a card I got this week in the mail.. I love the snowman family Sarah W. made using 2 different sets (both of these sets are on the retiring list, so they're only available until Dec. 31).

Starting young....

Scary that E knows how to do this already!!!

Virtuoso

Fireplaces

What's better than having your fireplace on? How about 2 fireplaces!!!! We have a channel that plays hour after hour of a real wood burning fireplace... complete with the crackles and stoking of the fire. Our little gas fireplace looks kind of sad next below it... but at least the gas one gives the real heat. We just have to figure out how to get that wood burning smell... hmm... I guess I could burn some dinner!

On a funny note... we tried this downstairs in the theatre, and it was a little scary because it looked like the whole wall was on fire... we changed the channel pretty quickly!