Christmas Play 2008

Every year at church we have a Christmas musical. This year Natalie was Mary.





















Jack was a shepard.




















Lauren and Nicole were angels.

A Couple of Christmas Shots

Here's a couple sneak peeks of Christmas pictures. I took other group pictures and individual pictures, but I thought these were funny.

Miss Merry Christmas Pageant 2008

These are some pictures from the Miss Merry Christmas Pageant. The girls had so much fun!

Lauren won Queen(1st place) in the 4 & 5 year old division. She also won Most Beautiful.



















The back of her dress has a heart cut-out.



















Richard had the idea to braid Natalie's hair and pin it up. Between both of us braiding and styling, this is what we came up with... a flower.



















Natalie won Best Personality in the 6 to 8 year old division.



















Nicole won Queen(1st place) in the 9 to 11 year old division. She also won Most Beautiful.

















We are very proud of all three of our beautiful girls!

Christmas is Almost Here!

"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..."
This is one of my favorite Christmas ornaments! It reminds me to stay focused on the REAL meaning for Christmas, Jesus.














Here are a couple of pictures of our tree this year. Richard makes a different display each year.








































This is a Santa train going around the tree and a Disney monorail passing through it.















Santa driving the train:















The Christmastown figurines from "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer":




















Rudolph and Clarice:















A couple of the Christmastown village pieces. (We have over twenty pieces of the set so far.)

Faith's Favorite Things

Another blog that I visit frequently tagged all her readers to show their favorite things (sorta Oprah style without the freebies). Here are five things that I am loving lately(in no particular order):

#1 - Starbucks hot chocolate - YUMMY!!!!





#2 - Shoping at Hobby Lobby - Found some things on sale the other day for 90% off! Can't beat that!





#3 - My Sony Vaio laptop that I got a few months ago. In fact, I'm leaned back in my chair with my feet propped up on my desk as I'm typing this.





#4 Just Bunches! - I just started eating this new cereal a couple of months ago. YUMMY! I had eaten the Honey Bunches of Oats before, but I usually saved some of the bunches for the last couple of bites because that was the best part.





#5 Dove Dark Chocolate - LOVE these! The quotes inside are cute too. Of course after I read one today that said, "Go ahead, have another!" I thought I need to be like the lady who sued McDonald's because her coffee was hot(and won millions) and sue them for making me overweight!(Haha)

Tag YOUR IT!!!!!! If you read this, please post a few of your favorite things on your blog and link it back here in the comments section, or if you don't blog, just post them in the comments section.

Another Addition to Our Family

With a dog, chickens, quail, and the squirrels(before we gave them to Dad), I already feel like I should be singing the theme song from Green Acres! Well, now we have a new addition, Wilbur, a baby pig! Here are some pictures of the kids with Wilbur. I must admit, he is a cute little thing.

Favorite Things

Now that it's getting chilly here, we have had two of my favorite things almost every day this week: a fire in the fireplace and hot chocolate. Yummy!!! Almost time to drag out the flannel p.j.s and flannel sheets. Now the only thing that could make it better would be to wake up to snow on Christmas!