HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

                          
                                     We are looking forward to another wonderful year.                                        

 

 

 

Love when he dresses up! 

 

If you look above the fireplace there is a painting.  Hopefully, this year it will be exchanged for a flat screen TV.

 

 

I was inspired by the reindeer antlers that Melissa bought this year when she and Adam had a holiday party for us all.  Those are what we will be wearing for our group photo in 2013!

 

Hopefully, this year, Reese will join us for a grandchildren picture.  Right now, when we ask him if he wants to get his picture taken, he says, "I don't want to."

 

However, if you catch him off guard, you can usually get a cute picture.  Here he made a hat in preschool at Thanksgiving.  It is either an Indian headress or a turkey hat---hard to tell.

 

 

 

I truly hope Maddie will perform again in the Nutcracker Ballet.  She made a beautiful angel.

 

                                       So let's make a toast to the Happiest New Year ever!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Jesus Is The Reason For The Season

I have always been fascinated with Nativity sets.  For many years I have collected them, and bring them out each Christmas. 

My latest addition is a metal board background, and is also an Advent Calendar.  Each little drawer has an item that you add to the scene each day.

BELIEVE is another set that I purchased this year.  Each letter has a character from the manger.

This is a set I purchased for Heather a couple of years ago.  She has since become interested in collecting nativity sets too.

I had had this little set of Precious Moments for many years, and when Heather got married I gave it to her.  As a little girl, it was always a favorite of hers.

When Maddie came along she just loved the Little People sets from Fisher Price, so of course I got her this set which children can also play with.

When Heather was little, she loved painting ceramics.  Here is a set that she painted for me.

One of my favorites has always been this glass set that is very tiny, but exquisitely painted.

Here we have 2 sets.  In the background is one I got from Hallmark many years ago, and in the front is a sweet set of the Peanuts characters.

When I was a little girl, my mother had a set similar to this one, so I tried to find one like it.  She always put cotton snow underneath, and it was usually under the tree along side the train set.

But we must always remember----  "Jesus Is The Reason For The Season"

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Christmas has become the most fun since we've had grandchildren.  Maddie has always been a ham, and Grandma has probably had too much wine.

One year, Scott finally got his Red Rider BB Gun, and Grandpa got his Benelli.

In 1956, I got a baby sister---Darlene!  I got to play Mommy with a REAL DOLL!

It was a real blessing to me when Duane and I got married and these very special people were added to my family, his son Scott, wife Kim and their two darling daughters Valerie and Amanda.

                                  What more can you say about Heather's reaction, but WOW?

Poor Adam, however, is overwhelmed.  Gee, and he got the very same present Reese got last Christmas.  Some things never change.

                      This year a very special angel arrived, and performed a ballet for us.

                                               And, the littlest angel is saved for last.......