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Trimming the Tree…

The Friday after Thanksgiving was not Black like most of the world.  Inside our house was filled with color… the colors of Christmas!  After a yummy breakfast together, we got out the Christmas decorations and the tree and got to work!  It is amazing how much help the kids actually are these days… they are far more constructive than they are destructive!  It was fun being together… together for the holidays!

Untangling the lights….

Putting the ornaments on.  The ornaments truly show the history of our lives together – the ornament that my gave Danny when we were engaged, the ones from our first Christmas in New Holland including one with our wedding picture, the ornaments celebrating the first Christmases of our children, ones from friends and family in PA, NH, VA, FL, NY, and IA!  Our Tree is FULL of history!

Josiah LOVED this Superman ornament.  He did NOT want to put it on the tree… he wanted to play with it!  That’s Danny’s boy!

Me and Sugar!

Josiah needed a little help to put the ornaments on… I helped get the top of the tree decorated!

We ended our time with a picture of the two love birds… Grace did pretty well getting us and the tree in the picture! 

Its lookin Christmasy

It is lookin even more Christmasy around here with the addition of this tracing, cutting and gluing project that we worked on yesterday… SO FUN!  We hung them on the wall as you walk down to the school room… Grace even made one that says Merry Christmas for Daddy’s office door!

Gobbling Thanksgiving

Since the whole family has travelled to the east coast three times since June and Danny has had two more trips east, we are not travelling for the holidays this year!  We are tired of travelling and packing, but we are excited to be in our own home and beds this holiday season.  Last week we got in the Thanksgiving spirit by reading several Thanksgiving books and then we made these turkeys with what we are thankful for… they turned out really cute.  Grace, Hannah and Josiah each had their own.  Josiah kept picking off the eyes of his, but that comes with being a two year old boy! 

What’s YOUR favorite?

Grace has been studying about graphing in math.  She loves organizing and sorting so this activity is right up her alley!  But last week she was supposed to make another graph using the given data from her book.  Knowing that she likes a challenge and creativity, we went onto FB and asked my friends to help her with her new graph.  We asked then to respond with what their favorite food at Thanksgiving food was from our list.  We had MANY people respond (THANK YOU!) including the Gordon Gang who called us so each member of the family could have their vote counted!  It was a lot of fun! 

Here is Grace with the results…. Turkey was the winner with mashed potatoes not far behind!!

6 months and counting…

Drum roll please…. here is our little six monther! Healthy, happy and so much fun!

Just a little ministry for the afternoon….

By the afternoon I am just run dry of energy…. I have nothing left after running around with the four kids all morning, but my five year old has TONS!  She wants to play, run, jump, cook, clean… whatever, as long as it is WITH mommy!  What I really want her to say is, “Mom, can we just snuggle on the couch and nap together?”  But that rarely happens… well, she DID nap ON DANNY the other day when they were snuggling…NO FAIR!! 

Anyway, last Tuesday I summoned all of my energy and made pies with Grace.  We had offered to make three apple pies for the Thanksgiving dinner at church so this was a perfect time to do it! We had a BLAST together… there MAY have been a little bit of tasting going on as we slaved away on those pies!  :) It was great being together and doing some ministry in our home…TOGETHER!