Signs of Christmas!

The tree with the many, many

handmade Ornaments from friends.

Philip added more lights this year!

On the 7th, we woke up to this much snow.

School was canceled. It snowed all day long.

On Tuesday, school was on a 2-hour delay.

Rudy's doghouse has tons of snow on it.

Lights on the tree.

Ice cycles on the roof line.

Robins eating berries from the tree.

Once there was a (tiny) snowman.

Brooke and Preston sit back in the easy chair!

A Great Weekend!!!

My friend Cari came for the weekend since

she moved in January. She came to be at

my Ornament Party. The Friday she came,

we were able to go scrapbooking together.

We even made a shopping run to Kohls while

we were scrapbooking. We got a lot done.

I worked on making these ornaments for our

Relief Society Lesson handout to give to the

women in our ward.

The Ornament Party

Back row: Vivien, Tanya, Alison, Kellie,

Suzanne, Melody, Kim, Sabrina

Middle on the right: Courtney and Norma

Front Row: Rainee, Janice with baby Jenessa and Cari

We ate great food.

This year, I divided the girls into two teams. They

had to take turns covering their eyes with their

Santa hat and race to wrap a gift box. There were

prizes for the fastest group and one prize for

the neatest wrapped gift. I only wish that I would

have had my actual gifts inside each box so that

they would already be wrapped.

This is the ornament that I made this year.

Here are all the ornaments from this year's party.

This is something we all look forward to every year.

This ornament is from Tanya Turner. It's

one that she made a few years ago in

a smaller, glass bulb, and mine happened

to break. She knew how much I loved it, so

she made it for this year's party. This time she

put it in a large, plastic bulb. Unbelievable!!!

Do you think you could make this?