Christmas Gifts

I made these bean bags for the boys to use when we have family movie night.  It definitely took longer to make than I thought it would, and more bean bag fill than I thought I would need, but they turned out really good.  The boys love them.

I was thrilled when I opened this cookbook up on Christmas morning.  I tried the biscuits and gravy recipes to have for dinner one night and OH MY GOODNESS!!!  They were so good.  Everybody loved them.  I'm definitely going to have to make them more.

Happy New Year!!

We went down to Grandview to pick up the boys and have New Year's dinner with my family.  I also decided to make matching shirts, with my Cricut machine, to say Hello to the new year.  I thought they were all so cute, and everyone loved them.

Senior Center Christmas party

There senior center here in town had a christmas party that was free to the public. We decided to take the kids.  We didn't tell them where we were going, so they were surprised when they got there.  There were lots of LEGO displays that kids had built and entered for a LEGO building contest.  There were LEGOs that kids were able to play with.  Lots of craft things to make, and of course Santa was there.

When we were getting in the car the boys were getting mad because they didn't get to see Santa.  We had asked them earlier and they said they didn't want to.  So we had to go back in so they would get to see Santa.

I just love this outfit.

Christmas Season is here!

We start off the Christmas season every year with going to the Seventh Day Adventist Church's live Nativity.  It's called Journey to Bethlehem.  You go thru the city of Bethlehem pay taxes then stop by the wise men, the shepherds and the to Mary Joseph and the Baby.  It's really neat.  They even bring in live animals.  This year we invited my parents to come with us.  I think they enjoyed it, but they did say once was enough.

Jocelyn's friend Penny bought her these cute Minnie mouse pajamas.

Thanksgiving 2019

Thanksgiving this year was at Jon's sister Darla's house.  We all went over about 11:00.  Most everyone had just woken up.  The kids had a fun time playing.  I had a hard time because I was fighting a migraine.  After dinner Jocelyn was definitely ready for a nap so I left with her and took her home for a nap.  The quiet definitely helped with my migraine.  After Jocelyn's nap we went back and had some pie.  I took a cherry pie, and boy was it yummy.  That would have to be my favorite.

The day after Thanksgiving Jon had to work.  My mom had a houseful of people so I took the kids down, so they could play with cousins and we spent the day with them.  Lisa and her family were there, Emily and her family, Brian and his family, and Adam and Brandi were all there.  We have so much fun when we get together.  One of our favorite games to play is Telestrations.  It is so funny and we all laugh so hard.

More Halloween Festivities

Isn't she just the cutest little pirate?  Malachi wanted her to wear his pirate hat.

On Tuesday we carved our pumpkins.  

This was my pumpkin.  

I had actually made a shirt for all the girls in the office for Halloween.  We all had matching shirts.

Ready to go trick or treating!

Pig

Ninja

Pirate

We had a good time.  The boys got more candy than they needed.  Happy Halloween!