December Is The Best

December and 2011 are coming to a close. As we finish out the month, I just wanted to post some pictures of what we have been up to over the last week or so. The first pictures show Adam, Rebecca and their friend Skylar decorating Christmas cookies (and eating them too). It's a good activity to keep everyone busy while we are waiting for Christmas to arrive. :)

The next pictures are a few from Christmas Day and one of our Nativity re-enactment from Christmas Eve. The cast is as follows: Adam is the Baby Jesus, Rachel is Mary, Tanner is Joseph. Rebecca is the Inn Keeper as well as a Shepherd. Josh and Jared are 2 of the 3 Kings and Gaylene is the Angel. David is the narrator and the picture taker.

We did manage to squeeze in a day of skiing with my 2 brothers and some of their kids. We had a great time but I didn't take any pictures.

Next are some pictures of Adam on his birthday. He turned 7 on December 28th. We sang to him at breakfast time with candles in his waffles. Then he opened a few presents and in the afternoon he and his brother and sisters plus a few friends went to Classic Skating for 3 hours. They had a blast!! Happy Birthday ADAM!!!

This last picture is a picture of David and me on our wedding day... December 29, 1988 (No laughing allowed - we really were old enough to get married legally). Today we celebrate our 23rd anniversary and I just want to put it in the record that I have the best husband ever. He makes me so happy and I look forward to forever with him. I love you David!!

Skiing.... Finally

I finally got to go skiing. I've been waiting for more snow but it is too slow in coming. Park City got 3 inches of new snow last night so we went today. Notice only 4 kids in the picture. Rachel was home sick so she didn't get to go. She was very sad. The snow that was there was great, there just wasn't much of it so a lot of the runs are still closed but we had a great time and can't wait to go again.

 

Tanner, Adam, Joshua, Rebecca

Happy 16th Tanner!!!

Tanner turned 16 a couple of days ago. Happy Birthday!! He got a long board which was on his list, although he won't get much use out of it until summer time. We had root beer floats instead of cake at his request and he will be getting his driver's license ASAP. He's hoping by the end of this week but for sure next week. I'll have to post the day he gets it. :)

 

 

I Love My Sewing Room

I have been enjoying my sewing/craft room and this is a picture of Adam wearing my latest creations. I made fleece pjs for Adam and Rebecca (Adam has one pair on in this picture).

I had leftover fabrics from other projects and decided to make Adam a jacket. It was quick and easy and he really likes it. That is the true test. If they like it and want to wear it, then I did good. :)

A Scrap Tree

I saw a cute Christmas tree in a catalog made out of fabric with buttons all over it. It wasn't really in my budget though so I decided to be a copycat and just make one myself with all the scraps of material and buttons I have in my craft room. This is how it turned out. It looks really cute standing in the corner by my bookshelves. Rachel drew the pattern for me and then I just went from there adjusting it to whatever materials I had. If nothing else, it was a fun creative project that didn't take more than a few hours and didn't cost a cent. :)