Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2016

Christmas Eve and Day

Christmas was on a Sunday this year! Santa still found us! We had breakfast with the missionaries, (Elder Ales,Hill, Vega, Mckell) Aunt Roxanne, and grandma Lucy. Then we opened gifts from Santa before church. We then came home to open the rest. We had to wait a few minutes because Larry and Ethan took the sacrament to a sister who was ill. A few high light gifts were Ethan built an amazing barn for his sisters American girl doll horses, Santa brought Ruth a flipeze hat and Woodsies animals, Hayden got an ipod, Ethan got a gopro camera, Brock and Amelia both got legos,and clothes, they all were very happy! We also few a few games and other toys but those were the highlights. It was a wonderful day remembering our savior and spending time with family. I forgot to take pictures in the afternoon when we were with the whole Workman group but it was a lot of fun! Emily got a ticket to the New Kids on the Block concert so we can go together! So did Johnnie. It really was just a peaceful wonderful Christmas season. As I look back on how hard the beginning of the month was and how I'm not ready for Christmas to be over now I realize that even though we miss Nadine we filled this month literally with light because of the light the world campaign from the church. We had our morning devotional every morning and focused on the Savior, served in so many ways, spent so much quality time together, played, laughed, cuddled, and just filled our home and life with love. I'm not sure in ready to get back to regular life. ... Christmas 2016 was amazing and not because of the gifts under the tree (although Larry did spoil me I got a Vitamix!) But it was amazing because we focused on the real gift! Jesus Christ!

Oregon Garden

My sister Emily works at the Oregon Garden and has gotten us tickets 2 years in a row now. It's so much fun! This year was even more awesome with all the snow!

Light the world

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints put on a light the world campaign for the 25 days leading up to Christmas. It was amazing! It helped our home focus on trying to follow our Savior's example, serve others, and love each other more. We participated in many ways but this was one. We dropped off clothes to donate to those in need.

Traditions

We filled the month with all our traditional activities, built gingerbread houses, visited Santa, rode on the carousel.

O Christmas Tree

We had to go to 3 Christmas tree farms to find our Christmas trees. I'll be honest. ..it was a rough day. .. mostly because of grouchy. .. but I came to understand we were struggling really with knowing this was our first Christmas with it Larry's mom. Once we addressed the real problem we were able to do our home with love and service and had a wonderful Christmas season.

Maroon 5 concert

Johnnie bought me a ticket to see Maroon 5 in concert for Christmas last year. It was an amazing show and a really fun night!

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Christmas 2013 (FINALLY!)

 Christmas is hard for me to capture with my camera for a few reasons. #1 I am busy trying to enjoy it with out trying to always stop them and get a picture. #2 when I do try to get a picture they don't actually stop long enough and I get blurred shots  A LOT! So I have a few that are not totally blurry to share. Here they all are by the tree waiting for Grandma and Grandpa to get here for breakfast and presents! Very exciting!!!
 Hayden's dream came true and she FINALLY got her own American girl doll. She was dreaming of the girl of the year Sage and Santa really came through!
 Ethan asked for literally NOTHING! I knew he was saving for some Lord of the Rings legos so Santa decided to help him out on that one. He also got all the Lord of the Rings movies and the Hobbit. He was in Lord of the Rings heaven!!!
 Ruth asked Santa for the Klipity Klop Castle from little people. He brought that and she loves it. But mommy and daddy got her this Rapunzel and dress and I made her this wig. She was so excited about this that she hasn't taken it off other then church for WEEKS! Brock got her the stroller, and Ethan bought her the play dough. She had a very Rapunzel Christmas!!!

 Amelia asked for this bathtub from American girl. Sure is fancy and she loves it!
 Brock got lots of Dino legos and is in hog heaven.
I didn't get pictures but I did get video on a camera I don't know how to download onto this the last present of the morning. Everyone got Mickey Mouse T-shirts and gift cards because we are GOING TO DISNEYLAND!!!! My kids have never been before and it has been a very long time since Larry or I have been. We are all very excited to go and get to be there in February for Amelia's 10th Birthday!!!
 Now we all live close to Grandma and get to spend part of Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa so in the afternoon we went to their house for dinner and more presents!!! The kids all got their Grammy jammies and a $15 gift card at Walmart.


 It is so much fun having family close enough to celebrate all the big stuff together! We had a wonderful holiday and are so grateful for our many many blessings all year and especially this time of year!
I didn't take any pictures but the day after Christmas Amelia had her tonsils taken out. She was a champ!!! She ate lots of ice pops, ice cream and drank LOTS of juice and ice water! She was all better just in time to go back to school. It was nice to need to be somewhat down for the rest of the holiday because we spent lots of time together and they played with their new toys, and games and movies. We did go to the movies one afternoon with cousins and then Grandma took the kids to spend their gift cards. It was a great break and we all had fun.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Prineville Christmas

 We had so much fun the day after Christmas with our Workman cousins. This is Brock opening his Brock pillow case Grandma made him! He loves it. My kids love anything personalized! So much more fun!
 Grandma made Amelia some clothes for her American Girl doll and Hayden got clothes for her barbies that Grandma made
 Grandma made this doll for Ruth and she LOVES it!!! They all also got their traditional "grammy jammies" They love them and look forward to getting them. Ruth really loves her Minnie Mouse night gown. She loves to be in a dress and this is like a dress. She will dance around the house in it.

 The kids had so much fun playing in the snow. They spent HOURS out in it!
 Johnnie took time to paint little girls nails they loved this!

 The boys built a fort!


 The Fort window!

 Warming up after all the time in the snow! LOVE spending time with cousins. It was a tight fit with all of us in the house but we wouldn't have it any other way. Cozy and full of LOVE!