Cousin J's Wedding

The girls were flower girls in their cousins wedding this past Saturday. They had a blast and loved every second of being flower girls. Here are a few pictures to enjoy...

Rehearsal ...

Waiting for the Wedding to start...

Pictures Before the Wedding...

N coming down the isle... the camera froze so we missed J and R. :(

Pictures after the wedding was over. If you notice R is a little fed up. I took her boquet to her but she did not want it.

Here are all the cousins taking a break from all the dancing.

Dancing Queens...

Or should I say princesses! They had a blast dancing at the wedding and J did not sit down once. I believe she danced for 2 hours straight. All day yesterday she said, "My feet hurt!" I bet they did! LOL Enjoy the movies....

Here are the girls dancing during the dinner...

Here J tries her feet at line dancing...not to bad for her first time...

Every time the phrase "she hit the floor" came on they would hit the floor. LOL The girl's cousin N was teaching them the moves. N hit the floor a little too much check out the end of the video.

I have no idea where J gets her moves! Boy does she have some. LOL

The cousins had a blast dancing and if you notice through all the videos it's mostly the little girls dancing. They stole the show! Even little R had to get in on the action. :)

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

Wow, I can't believe it's already the year 2009! I really had planned to post our Christmas update before the new year but this will have to do! :)

Christmas Eve we had a beautiful service at church. My niece and nephew were baptised! It was so nice because their Grandpa had the honor of baptizing them. Our church had a really beautiful tribute to all the military families during the service. They played a music video of a song, "Yellow Ribbons on Our Christmas Tree" Near the end of the song they had several men dressed in combat gear walk to the front of the church and kneel at the manger. Another service man placed a yellow bow on top of the Christmas tree at the front of the church. It was really moving and helped me to realize how blessed I am to live in free country and not to take for granted the price others pay so I may have this freedom. We all really need to pray for our country this year!


Christmas Eve we spent with Mema. We had pizza, opened gifts and just hung out. Later we headed home where R thought she saw Rudolph's nose in the sky and freaked out to get in bed super fast! She wanted to sleep in her jeans and she did not want to go out to feed the reindeer because she was afraid he would see her up and she would not get any presents. So, J was the only one I could get to put out the reindeer food. I did manage to get N to come down off the porch for just a minute to take a picture.

Opening Presents at Memas ...

We let the girls open one present that night and then we put out cookies and milk. We finished the evening with Daddy reading the Christmas story. I can honestly say we did not hear one peep from their room till 7:30 am the next morning!

Opening one present at home... They each got new PJ's and their Build A Bears each got new PJ's...

Feeding the Reindeer... Cookies n Milk for Santa aka Daddy...

Santa aka Daddy reading Luke 2...

Girls listening to Daddy read Luke 2...

Christmas morning!!!!!!

J with her new baby...

R with her new baby...

N with her new doll high chair...somehow the pics of her w/ her new baby did not turn out well...

Christmas day we went to my mom and dads. We ate way to much food and opened gifts with my sisters family and Giddie & Papa. Giddie bought the girls really nice dress up sets. Here are a few pics of them dressed up...BTW they all wanted the Bride dress but R was the lucky one. LOL

R in her Bride dress...

N in her Victorian Era dress...

J in here princess dress...

J in the bride dress if you know her well .... you know why! :) Not to mention she is showing all the accessories that came with the dress! Check out those cute legs. :)

This has been a really great year for our family. We are truly blessed by our Lord and Saviour. This new year has started off with a bang. My sister and I spent the day doing lesson plans while the kids played. I'm really looking forward to blogging this year and I hope to be a little more consistent. We love you all....Happy New Year!

Singing in Church / Reindeer / Christmas Play

The girls sang in church yesterday morning. They did such a good job. They knew every hand motion and almost all the words to the song. :)

After arriving home from Sunday morning church R saw 3 Bucks running down our dirt road. She started yelling, "Mommy, Mommy, I saw Dancer, Prancer and Vixen!!!!" "We have Reindeer!!!!!" I hope the hunters stay away until after Wed. night. :)

My mom's church had a cute little Christmas play last night so we took the girls along with my sister and her kids. This is how they watched the play sitting on the back of the pew. Thankfully we were sitting on the last row.

She had the best seat in the house! :)

The Baby Doll

This was my baby doll. I would have to say that I was about the same age as the girls when Santa brought her to me. She was and is a much loved doll. The girls love to play with her and they always tell me they are taking really good care of her for me. It's as if they understand she was my doll as a child and can not belong to them. LOL It's so sweet. Now, I'm hoping the fighting over who takes care of Mommy's doll will stop when Santa brings them each a new baby to care for in a few nights.

The Live Nativity

We took the girls to see the live nativity this year along with my parents and B's mom. This had become a yearly tradition that we started last year with my sister and her kids. They were out of town so we took the Grands with us. I'm sure it 's something we will continue to do with them year after year. They use real people and animals and they tell the story for Christ from the Angel coming to Mary to the Resurrection of Christ. It's really nice and thankfully to help the Christmas spirit it was really cold the night we went. :)

Here my mom tried to get the girls to have their picture made in front of the nativity but they would not. :)

I did manage to get N and J to stand this close but I don't think they were too happy about the whole idea.

Hark the Hehl Angel's don't want to sing!!!! LOL

Update/Funny Story/ Christmas Dresses

So, it's been quite a few week since my last post. We have been so busy. Last week alone I had some place to go every single day! Needless to say we have taken the last couple of weeks off from schooling. We did start back this morning and the girls seem really excited to start on their Christmas themed lap books. I was so afraid that they may of forgotten some of the things we have been learning but they remember every small detail. I guess it was a conformation to me that I'm doing something right and homeschooling it the best choice for us.

Over the past two weeks my ears took a turn for the worse. Those of you that really know no the history of my ears they are bad and I have tubes. My ears were a little infected and the left ear had a tar like wax build up over and in the tube. Do to this my ears were so blocked up I could hardly hear. Went he Dr. tried to remove the tar wax from the tube the tube and ear drum were coming with the wax. It was very painful and the Dr. had two choices. Surgery or try meds. I took the steroid ear drops and used them several times a day for a week this was to try and soften the wax. So with ear drops and lots of prayer when I went back to the Dr. they were able to remove the wax without doing surgery! Yeah!!!! Now I can hear and it's so nice. Although Brian is convinced he needs to learn ASL (American sign language) because my ears tend to be dramatic. He thinks I will be deaf in old age. :)

Now, for a few funny stories. I will start with telling you all I have a bad habit of singing instructions to my kids. I will take what ever song is in my head and put new words to it. Last Sunday night the girls were supposed to be getting their pj's on but were taking a really long time. I was waiting for them in my room because we were going to watch the movie White Christmas. So this is the song I sang....

~ To the tune of Oh Come All Ye Faithful

"Oh come all ye children, come into my bedroom

It's time to start the movie, Mommy's waiting for you

Come on get moving I am tired of waiting...

Oh come into the bedroom, Oh come into the bedroom

Oh come into the bedroom, White Christmas is on!"

N replied to the tune of Deck the Halls

N can't come she on the potty Fa La La La La La La La La

B looked at me and said, You've been singing instructions to them for too long! LOL

I have started to craft and sew again. I decided last Thursday afternoon I wanted to make the girls Christmas pillow case dresses. So I went to WalMart and found some really cute Ho Ho Ho fabric. I came home and started sewing. I finished the dresses the next morning. This really has to be the cutest pattern and it so easy!!! All day long Friday while out with the girls people stopped us to ask about the girls and their dresses. I will be making more of these for sure.

The girls have really started to like making smores. I happen to have all the ingredients the other day and Daddy made them for the girls with a candle in the kitchen. That evening he was cooking supper for us and while it was cooking he walked in our bedroom to chat with me about something. When he went back into the kitchen he found the girls attempting to make their own smores. They stuck marsh mellows on the ends of spaghetti noodles and were holding them over the steaming pot! I will say one thing about our girls they are super creative!!!!

For the book lovers here are a few books the girls and I are loving this week. They are all of course in the Christmas theme:

The Story of Christmas by Felix Hoffmann
A Christmas Promise by Lark Carrier

On Christmas Eve by Peter Collington

The Twelve Days of Christmas Illustrated by Don Daily

I will try to update a little more often. Thanks for stoping by and leave us a comment to let us know you came.