When it's all said and done.

  Well Dec. 26th is here and it's all said and done. It's kind of a depressing time for me though. All that time before Christmas is spent in anticipation, shopping, the excitement of it all and then it's all said and done.  It was a very nice Christmas, spending time with Family, Unfortunately not all the family could be there. Now it's time to just relax and enjoy all our time off until we go back to work and school after New Years.  We are suppose to get quite a bit of Snow tonight, no one here is going to need to go anywhere tomorrow so I say .......LET IT SNOW,  LET IT SNOW , LET IT SNOW

Merry Christmas 2010

Well Today is Christmas Eve. We have a nice relaxing Day planned and then Church tonight. All the gifts are wrapped so none of that to worry about. I got cleaning and laundry, all done yesterday. Everyone here is off work and school until Monday,(that's when Ken goes back to work) so it's nice to be able to just relax and enjoy the day before all the festivities tomorrow

My moms is the big one here with the lights.

Last night we went to Quarryvilles Midnight madness .We went to Newswangers furniture first. My moms manger scene was set up here with some others that customers had lent for display. They had a live one out front too. My moms manger scene was made by my grandparents. My grandmother painted all the figurines and placed all the little stones on them and my grandfather made the stable. I remember as a kid just sitting and staring at it in awe.
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At Martins Appliances They didn't have a horse drawn wagon this year to take you around to see lights, it was a tractor. Kind of took the fun out of it so we didn't do it. We did get our free hot dogs and hot cider. They also had fresh made cookies. I did see a nice stove there that we may go back for after Christmas.
Then we stopped at Fergies picked up some groceries and then the music store .

Bushes outside Herrs decorated to look like potato heads

On the way Home we rode through Herrs and looked at the lights. Ken would stop so I could take some pictures but it was kind of hard because we had people behind us at times . It would have been better if I could have gone out and taken some but oh well. It was a really nice evening, spending time with the family and enjoying the sights.

So as we all get together tomorrow with friends and family around the tree and are opening the gifts we receive, lets not forget the greatest gift given to us many years ago, Jesus. He came to this earth from his heavenly throne for us. Lets Remember The Reason for the Season, not just tomorrow, but everyday throughout the year.


John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whosoever believes in him, should not perish but have everlasting life.

Merry Christmas

Christmas Card 2010

                               

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Who would have thought, Again?

Sometime back I had entered a giveaway on here and won a pair of Naya Shoes
and Won.  Well much to my surprise when I got on my computer and saw an email that said I had won the giveaway over at AVON by Karen . It was for the Avon 24k Quad eyeshadow. How cool is that? Thanks Karen for this great giveaway.

Oh Christmas Tree

Well we got our tree up today. We did the Blue LED lights again. I really love the LED lights. They are a little more money but I think they are sooooo worth it. Maybe next year we will try another color theme but who knows. If we do I'd like to get more LEDs because we only got enough last year for the tree.

In the Raven's Room the boys did a little sports tree. It has a mixture of Kens basketball and Raven's ornaments on it. The lights aren't LED on this one because these are just some lights we had from before. Can you see the difference?

The Tree

My Dad and Ken shaking the Tree

Still Shaking the tree

Well today we got our tree. Ken goes to the 3 to 11 shift for the next 2 weeks and this was pretty much the only time we could get it as a family. We just go to my parents house and get it every year. You see they live right next to a tree farm and during the week they sell the trees for the tree farm since they live right there. We didn't put it up yet, I think we will probably do that tomorrow. We still have to get up in the attic and pull down all the tree Decorations. I hope to finish off the house decorating too. I just love this time of year.

Running it through the bailer. Jordan My Dad and Ken

All wrapped up Ken, My Dad, Jordan and Tanner

Ken standing proud and tall : )