Changed By Love

Putting Up the Christmas Tree, Etc.

Dec.5,2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3K91Dkdjc0

Making Double Decker Fudge

Finished Tree

Jesse Tree

Ann Voskamp’s Advent Reading

This goes with our Jesse Tree ornaments.

Advent Book by Jack and Kathy Stockman of Celebrations and Traditions.

Making (embellishing) cards using the ebook Artful Christmas by Joy Marie Dunlap of LightHome Publications.

Happily busy celebrating Advent and preparing our hearts for Jesus’ coming.

Advent and Waiting

Dec.2,2011

Selah.

Pause and think about it.

I got this Christmas card done by Tiny Prints. I was very pleased with how it came out. When I first put everything together and typed in all of our names, the form protested that I had too many names. It only fit in up to Fiona. Garrett, Emma and Abby were left out. I thought I would have to write their names separately in a message on the back. But Tiny Prints has each card examined by an artist who fixes anything that doesn’t work right, and they put the extra names in there. I was happy about that. I didn’t even have to say anything about it. They just did it.

So, Yay for Tiny Prints! I really like how this card turned out.

Everyone have a blessed Christmas season! Blessed with peace and joy beyond your fondest dreams and deepest desires.

Tidbits From Today

Dec.1,2011

I reserved lots of Tasha Tudor books at the library today. I didn’t realize that she wrote so many Christmas books! Here is at least a partial list of her Christmas books:

The Dolls’ Christmas

Take Joy!

Becky’s Christmas

Corgiville Christmas

and I think there are even more.

I already got all of these books by some of our favorite authors from the library:

Rainbow-and-tough-guys-024 — Anna reading one of the Christmas books

This was a surprise:

Here was Katie’s birthday present from God.

We were sitting in the living room. I was reading aloud to the older kids when all of a sudden Shawn yelled, “Rainbow!” I looked toward the window, but the blinds were closed. He saw it through the small upper windows that weren’t covered by the blinds.

We all ran to the back windows and patio doors and there we saw a whole rainbow spread all the way across the sky.

Shawn tried to get pictures of the whole thing, but my camera could only take pictures of little pieces of it at a time.

We got a video of it though so you can see that we really were able to see the WHOLE thing. What a nice gift from the Lord!

Garrett and Morgan were cooking again today. This time they fried bacon. Notice the protective eye wear. Notice the upside-down position of both of their goggles.

Morgan explained that he put his upside down so he could breathe. Garrett’s were upside down because Morgan put them on him without paying attention to whether they were right side up or not.

While I read to the kids Kelsey made these: