Merry Christmas!

Christmas started around 5:45 this morning.  Santa brought a little husky puppy named Sylphrena.  She decided to be playful around that time and wanted everyone else up.  So, she started whinning and by 5:45, everyone was up.  The kids were a little confused, but when they saw her, the were surprised that there was a dog in the house.  Not to mention excited!

Even though I would have loved to sleep in a little longer, it wasn't going to happen.  So`Christmas was really early today and we had all our presents open before the sun came up.  Crazy!  Here are some pics.

Merry Christmas!

 



Advent Calendar

One of my favorite memories of Christmas growing up is placing an ornament on our Christmas Tree advent calendar.  Each one of us kids would take turns putting up an ornament each day until Christmas.  It was fun because the fuller the tree got, the closer we were to Christmas.

 

I decided that I wanted to make one that our family could enjoy.  So, a week before December was supposed to start, I dived into my felt scraps and began the process of making the ornaments and the tree.  It took me all week working in my spare time, but I managed to get it done for the first of December.

 

I'm rather proud of it, though there are some ornaments that I may try and redo in the future.  I was just glad to have it done and up for December 1st.  Then I realized that I hadn't taken any pictures of it yet.  Here they are.  The entire calendar and ornaments are made of felt.  I tied little jingle bells onto the tree for the ornaments to hang on.  It was a lot of fun!

Only 12 days until Christmas!

Happy Birthday and Holidays

Quite a bit has happened recently. We celebrated Heber's 3rd birthday and Thanksgiving followed not long after. The kids helped Scott move the wood pile we have had on our driveway, we got our Christmas Tree, decorated it, and set up some decorations. It's been busy, but fun.

Eliza and Heber help with the wood

Gideon loves being outside!

Heber's Birthday cake

Happy 3rd Birthday!  He loved his fishing cake

Gideon loved the cake, too!

Cutting down our Christmas Tree

Decorating time

The Christmas village