Friday, November 28, 2008

happy crumb day

in our family the day after thanksgiving is called crumb day. We gorge ourselves on leftovers and start drooling over all the wonderful leftover receipes everyone is coming out with now. One of my favorites is a thanksgiving shepards pie! yummmmmmmy!

I trust you all had a lovely day filled with many things to be grateful for. We spent a relaxing day at grammie's house surrounded by food. I managed to get a lot of hand work done on a couple of xmas presents as well. Not to shabby.

Now the christmas preparations must begin in earnest! the decorations need to be sorted out and scattered about. Lots of present need to be made and hidden. A bit of shopping here and there of course. And one of our favorite traditions, our advent calender. Ours is filled with activities this year, one for each day. Everything from visiting santa at disneyland to simply putting up the tree! Homeschooling has been somewhat suspended for the month so that we can just focus on the holiday and really enjoy it to the fullest!

check back later for photos of some of the work that I have gotten done so far!

again happy crumb day!

Thursday, November 27, 2008

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!


HOPE YOU HAVE A LOVELY DAY FILLED WITH GOOD FOOD, GOOD FRIENDS AND GOOD TIMES. LIFE IS DIFFICULT RIGHT NOW, LOTS GOING ON IN THE WORLD, BUT WE ALL HAVE SO MUCH TO BE GRATEFUL FOR!

BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Las Vegas, the good, the bad and the ugly

So over the last week my darling daughter turned ten! I can't believe so much time has flown by. Well ten is big right, Double Digits and all. SO we got crazy and took her to Las Vegas. Las Vegas you say...really? For a ten year old????? Well yes of course! There are white lions and tigers to see, oh yes and an amazing dolphin encounter. Then there is the insane roller coaster at New York New York which ever thrill seeker must ride. All the amazing hotels to oggle, lots of pool swimming to be done. And the crowning glory, why Cirque Du Soleil of course! Our tickets were for our last night in town and it made for quite a finale. We took her to Mystere, which she choose after watching the trailers online. She was blown away. so much so that she wasn't even able to talk about it till the next day! Over breakfast the next morning she quietly informed me that she was going to be a costume designer for Cirque and could she have more sewing classes!



so that was the good. The bad you ask, what was bad....well how exactly do you explain "the anything goes in Las Vegas" idea? To a ten yr old???? so that was an interesting discussion. the ugly, so many people out of work and loosing everything there right now. Times are hard!

a huge thank you to my in-laws, with out the time share this trip would not have been possible!

thankyou!

Friday, November 14, 2008

catch up ...


oh my gosh it has been so long since we chatted. I am feeling much better although I am still hacking away. Apparently whooping cough is referred to as the 100 days cough. If this holds true I will be coughing for about 50 more days! But enough of all that :) let's begin catching up with photos. I owe you some right. we will start with halloween!

We had a very lovely halloween, filled with pumpkin carving and house decorating. That night we of course went trick-or-treating with our friends and made quite a haul, which was then sorted and appropriate offering made to the switch witch in hopes of toys in exchange.