we aren’t mailing cards this year.
i’m extra sorry for those who don’t read about us online who would usually get one.

benny colored a hand drawn nativity scene that was going to be our card.
we took enough pictures to mail cards for the rest of this decade.
but as you can clearly see – the perfect moment was never quite captured : )

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merry christmas!

i’m up late …. the computer ate a christmas project i was working on ….. and i’ve just spent the time to redo it.

the first post on facebook at 1:18am was a youtube clip about newton, connecticut. i’ve played it several times.

we have 6 year old. we also have a 7 year old.

there are moms all the way across the country who don’t anymore …

i wonder what they’ll do with already bought christmas presents.
or maybe they had airline tickets for a christmas family vacation.
or maybe they hadn’t taken their christmas card picture yet ….

man, i’m glad God is bigger.

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christmas is coming along here. the kids are out of school. we’re reading an exciting book that goes along with the advent this year. we’ve been to plays. we’ve been shopping. we’ve been stressed : )

we were asked to be a part of a christmas program at church. back in october i didn’t think it’d be a big deal to come up with a little something ….. that was in october, now it’s december! rex’s kids ad-lib very well ; ) 

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i feel like i repeat myself sometimes in posting these …. but amie doesn’t instagram & obviously we need to explain to her why we took each one – so for amie …..

• well this is just dolly & frosty
• benny made his bed ‘just like dad’, was totally proud of himself & wanted me to send a picture to rex
• did i tell you we got a dog? he showed up one morning & hasn’t left. his name is charlie
• benny stood just like that once  … in that crib, wearing those zippys, smiling – i had to take a picture
• 3 guesses who drew that & the first 2 don’t count
• he took the girls to the nutcracker …. i was almost jealous : )
• pink joseph & blue mary were taking a trip, i guess
• that was the pound cake ….
• he’s got mad climbing skills, especially with his jumper – it was the first time rex saw him do it & he was smiling for him
• well you know what those are …. you can just call it christmas on your bum : )
• that’s our tree … at night … in black & white ….
• i have aspiring goals for those!
• it was probably a tie over who was prouder – rex, for tying it up or roo, for keeping it there : )
• they were playing ring around the rosies with rosie …. yes it was that beautiful
• obviously she gets her fashion sense from you
• i know, he’s crazy adorable : )
• this one …. you just woulda had to of been there
• chady was tickled to be at the table & regan was tickled to have him there
• the sister friends in their seats waiting for the nutcracker to start
• debbie insisted i send you this for shock value & proof
• well that’s rex : ) at lowes : ) pushing our tree in to pay for it : )

• she said it was the 1st time i’d ever bought her a happy meal, i believed her
• and i know …. this is hard to believe …. i took my 6 children to mcdonalds, bought them all happy meals & let them play all over the play place. they had fun.

 

 

i know that was a lot of pictures …. i need to instagram more than …. well more often than i do : )

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merry christmas –

 

benny thought the boughs should be reindeer antlers & he was doing his christmas dance. regan had already done her christmas dance & jack was trying to get chad to look at the camera. they all picked their own clothing – i think that’s all the disclaimers the new header needs : )

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i don’t think we’ve picked out a christmas tree by ourselves, just the two of us since 2002 ….

it was my idea.
we were out on a date and had the truck ….

no crazy trek to the mountains to cut our own, or family trip to the fancy tree lot to all agree on which one would be perfect.

nope, the local lowes parking lot had a section of just marked down noble firs – ta da, done.

rex actually felt a little guilty.
i went with buying them little boxes of twinkle lights for the windows in their rooms to mask the fact that we got the tree without them : )

but the decorating …. after he strung the lights …. that was all them.

pajama clad, while muffins bakes & have yourself a merry little christmas played they hung ornaments in the same middle section of the tree.  we don’t have lovely christmas trees with matching ornaments all perfectly placed. we have funky trees with hodge podge ornamants dating back to 1979 complete with my feather angle with the gold crown made in my sunday school class when i was 5. and jacky’s face on a glitter paper bell that takes up the whole of one side : )

chady got put in his walker so he could watch more & help less : )

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we say we’re heading to the mountains next year, where there is snow & hundreds of trees & memories waiting to be made ….

but this was kinda a fun way too and, they like their festive lights around the windows.