Musings of a six year old!

Jacob walked into the room and I asked, "Why do you have a candy cane on your ear?"  He said, "Mom, it's not a candy cane, it's my bluetooth!!"

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly" Lauren Bacall

Jake loves legos, especially Star Wars. With another set, he made this cottage. He said it was The Fleur-de-lis Cottage. I just love how I can see his little fingerprints all over his creation.

A "Wicked" Date

Tonight  I  got to have a great date night with my hubby --we went to see the musical "Wicked".    Glinda had some legally-blonde humor going on and Elphaba had one of the best and most powerful voices I've ever heard.  If you haven't been, I highly recommend this musical.  It's funny,  there are touching moments and a great moral to the story...to see beauty within, not just on the outside.     Hope everyone has a great week!

Favorite Foto Friday

I know it will help when Ava's hair gets longer....but does anyone have a tip for
keeping piggy tails neat and secure?

A Temporary Fix

I'm posting pics of my kitchen for Kate at Livin' La Vida Lia. She saw a snippet of my kitchen in an earlier post, and was sweet enough to say it was inspiring, as she's in the midst of a remodeling project. Well, after you see more of it, you may change your mind. We bought an old house about a year ago, and like it's character and charm. However, it doesn't have an open floor plan and we knew when we moved in, we'd have to eventually remodel (take the back wall off the kitchen and remodel/expand). After living in this space for almost a year, we realize our remodeling project will be a bigger undertaking than we first imagined. So now we're trying to decide whether to remodel or move.
In the interim, I temporarily decorated my tired, old kitchen.

Oh-Nine!

Happy New Year

May you have a happy, healthy, and blessed 2009!

 

Let the post-Christmas diet begin :)

Christmas with Family

We had the best time this holiday season. Christmas Eve we traveled to Stu's home town for the day. My husband is from a quaint, little Americana town. The downtown has brick sidewalks, store fronts decorated with natural fir, pepper berries, and magnolias, and each vintage lamp post is decorated with white lights and wreaths. At night it's beautiful and it takes me back in time.

In the early afternoon, we went to a local nursing home and caroled through the hallways. There was a sweet lady that turned 100 on Christmas Eve. We sang Happy Birthday and Silent Night to her (she was so cute and appreciative, it made me tear up).

This is one of my all-time favorite Christmas traditions!

Then it was off to Scott and Sherry's house (my brother-in-law and sister-in-law) for an early dinner and gift exchange. Sherry had a "girly-girl" tree. It had pink bows with brown polka dots, and pink and green ornaments. Ava's reaction when she saw the tree, was worth the "price of admission"!

She loved the purse from Aunt Nancy and the pink boots from Aunt Toni.
She put them on and kept them on the whole day!!
That's her cousin Kate, she got a purse for Christmas too.

We got back home in time to read a few books, have hot cocoa, and wisk the children to bed before Santa came (see "Twas the Night before Christmas" post).
Christmas morning we woke and had our "forever family of four" Christmas.

On Christmas Day we went to my parent's home. I got to see all my sisters...that was the best gift of all. None of us live in the same town and we are literally spread from east to west across the U.S. It's very hard to get us in the same town at any given time.

I took loads of pictures but can't possibly post them all. Thanks to all of my family who came in town. I enjoyed my time with you and appreciate you!

Hope everyone had a special Christmas!

Twas the night before Christmas!

Reading "Rudolph", "The Night Before Christmas" and "The Story of Jesus"

Having a little Peppermint Mocha Cocoa

Leaving cookies for Santa.  I wanted to start a new tradition this year and bake a birthday cake for Jesus. We were out of town all day today celebrating Christmas with Stu's family (we have a yearly tradition with Stu's family I love, will post on that later). Regretfully, I did not get the cake baked. 

  
Happy Birthday Jesus!