Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts

Thursday, December 10

Spending time together


Every night we have been reading a book called Jotham's Journey by Arnold Ytreeide http://www.jothamsjourney.com/node/39
and lighting our candles while we read by the firelight. This special time together has become the highlight of our night. The story is suspenseful and yet reminds us of what Christ has done for us and how we can show His love, grace and mercy to others. I am thankful for this book and also for the memories we are creating. The author actually lives about 30 minutes from us in Nampa, Idaho. There are two other books in the series and I can't wait to read those too!

We have also been making ornaments for our trees and the girls have been having so much fun creating! Last night we watched Miracle on 34th Street and Santa Clause 1. My family is a huge blessing to me!
The picture below shows the girls stringing popcorn. Even though we were using day old popcorn it was a challenge for them to string it and not eat it! After we hung it on their little trees I noticed quite a bit of popcorn on the floor. I thought our dog ate it off the tree but I found out that Amelia ate some and later her little 2 yr old cousin had to try some out too! I think we might need to stick to non-edible garland next year!

Tuesday, December 8

First snow yesterday!

We of course were excited to see our first real snow. We are all sick but the little girls just had to go out and play. Dasher had a blast running around as fast as he could and also eating the snow. Last night our temperature got down to 7 degrees so it was pretty cold. It usually doesn't stay that cold for too long and I'm glad!








Snow Angels

Tuesday, September 29

Mattie Grace is 7!

This year we had a dress up tea party and then we did some crafts.

Red Fish Lake Stanley, Idaho June 2009

Monday, August 24

Amelia's Birthday






We had a very fun time celebrating Amelia's birthday at a local park. There was a fountain at the park for the kids to play in and they loved it.
I was decorating the cake a few hours before the party was to begin and I accidentally broke the dolls arm off. It was the kind of doll made for doll cakes and was only the top half of the doll. I had just watched a you tube video on how to use a real Barbie doll so we quickly came up with plan B and it worked. God is so good to me! Getting the cake to the park was also a challenge but we made it and all was a success. I made felt crowns for the girls to take home and I think they turned out pretty cute.

Monday, March 16

The LOVES of my life!

Valentine's Day!





My sister, Melinda, bought the girls these cute shirts!


We had aValentine party with a few friends and my sweet friend, Nicole, brought the cutest craft and the kids had so much fun.


Thursday, January 1

Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow! 12-21/08

Skiing at Bogus Basin!

































My son is born again! October 19, 2008

This was a great day for us as our son decided to be baptized
and become a new creation in Christ! We are thrilled with
his decision to give his life to Christ.





Many great friends came (with very short notice)
to show their support and love to us and we were
overwhelmed with joy!




Boise River....brrrrrrr!!!








Let's celebrate!

Tuesday, November 18

I'm back again at least for today!

Life has been pretty crazy I just haven't had the time to post. My family is coming in for a week so I won't be posting again until they are gone. I'm sure we will have lots of pictures from their visit. We are so excited they are coming! I really can't believe it is going to actually happen. Abby asked us to dress up this Halloween so crazy as we are, we decided to go for it! I got busy sewing and collecting from thrift stores and came up with some costumes. Thought you might want to see what we came up with........




Miss Idaho, puppy dog, Minnie Mouse



Cinderella


Butterfly


Miss Idaho















A man at my inlaws church drew these pictures of our family at their Harvest party. He did a fabulous job!


























































Dasher

Dasher