Ok, I am a little late on this post… but, it took me awhile to pull it together. 2013 was a good year for me… I realized a lot this year. I feel so at one with my husband, with my kids… this is important to me. I’ve made some great strides in personal goals…. >> View Post
Archives for 2013
GULP. How I did on my 2013 Goals.
Well, 2013 is almost gone. Can you believe it? I had wayyyyyyyy too many goals for myself in 2013. A little crazy to throw all of this on myself, what was I thinking? Well, I think I accomplished about 50% of them. And, in 2014 I am going to try to stick to 1-3 goals… >> View Post
What I Read in 2013.
It is time for my annual ‘What I Read In {Insert Year}’ post… Last year (2012) I made it one of my resolutions to read 24 books that year… and, I did it. 26 books, actually… and one of them was the BIBLE. Since I felt it was a little difficult for me to read… >> View Post
Christmas Recap (Photo Overload!!)
We had THREE Christmas celebrations this year… The first one was in Rolla on Christmas Eve with Brian’s family. Nathan’s class just finished reading the Flat Stanley book and one of our ‘projects’ over Christmas break is to take Stanley with us to places and take photos of him. So, here is Flat Stanley by… >> View Post
Grinch Treats and Nathan’s Class Party
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas!! We put the kids to bed and they fell asleep rather quickly, I think they were exhausted from opening all of the gifts! We still have one Christmas gathering tomorrow, so I am going to do a recap of our Christmas after that so I can do it… >> View Post
Christmas Play at School
Last Wednesday we saw both Nathan and Autumn perform in their Christmas play at school. I forgot to bring my big camera so I took photos with my iPhone and they turned out fairly well. The play had children from the 2 year old class, Preschool, Kindergarten and 1st and 2nd grade. The second grade… >> View Post
Our first year making Reindeer Food. So fun!
I have seen a lot of people making ‘Reindeer Food’ the night before Santa visits.The glitter in the food helps the reindeer find the house easily and then there is some oats/raisins mixed in to feed the reindeer. I set the table so that they could make little bags of reindeer food after we arrived… >> View Post
Light Up Snowmen Ornaments
Well, we only have THREE more days until Christmas and today I will be sharing my last Christmas craft here on the blog. Every year I have the kids make an ornament for the tree and over the years we have done mostly snowmen ornaments, but we have done some with other themes. This year… >> View Post
More Elf on the Shelf
Today I wanted to share my last Elf of the Shelf post, with what the Elf has been up to at our home. 🙂 I am sort of glad that it is almost Christmas, because this Elf on the Shelf business wears me out! Oh my! With all of the after school activities this week… >> View Post
Reindeer Ice Cream Treat and Autumn’s Class Party
The week leading up to Christmas is a super busy week… today was Autumn’s class party at her school and tonight is the Christmas play! I signed up to bring a snack for Autumn’s party and since the girl LOVES ice cream, I knew that I would not disappoint in bringing an easy Reindeer Ice… >> View Post
2013 Santa Photo… and, the time when Santa got out of his chair for Autumn.
We went to the Mall last Monday and I am finally getting the photo up here on the blog to share with all of you. This is the first time in a long, long, LONG time that Autumn has sat on Santa’s lap without crying. Yay!!! She did freak out a little right before and… >> View Post
Trendy Tot Tuesday: Christmas Photo Shoot and Our Christmas Card
Today I am linking up with Mrs In Training, Lindsay and Megan for Trendy Tot Tuesday… which I haven’t linked up with in quite some time! I am not sure why? I thought today I would share our Christmas photo shoot that I did at home AND our Christmas card!For the last few years, I… >> View Post