Sienna's Birthday

Sienna had a wonderful 5th birthday this year. On her birthday Grandma Suzanne made her pancakes and cut up Kiwi (a new fruit to Sienna that she really likes. Grandma Kris send her a beautiful blue dress with butterflies on it that she made for Sienna as well as matching socks and blue butterfly hair assessories. Her birthday was on a Sunday so she got a special breakfast and got to open her gift from both her grandma's. Grandma Suznne gave her a necklace and a tithing box that has a lock and key. The next day on Monday the 28th we had her birthday party. She decided she wanted a ladybug party for her birthday this year so I got to work printing ladybugs and decorating everything all up. She had 4 friends come to enjoy the fun. We were able to have some fun outside since the weather decided to give us a good day. We went on an egg bug hunt, wrung flowers with hulahoops, had a ladybug flower beanbag toss, pinned the ladybug on the flower, and we also did musical bugs. I made her ladybug cake and little baby ladybug cupcakes. She got lots of great gifts including the dolphin pillow pet from mom and dad that she has been wanting since Christmas time. She is growing so fast and its hard to believe she is going to be going into kindergarten this next year. Boy how time flies. We love you Sienna!

Sienna's 5th Birthday Party

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Flowers

My birthday was December 20. The kids and my mother-in-law put together a wonderful dinner and had these beautiful flower and balloons for me. They were so nice to have around for my birthday and the holiday.

My sweet husband got me these beautiful poincettas for Christmas. (What a stinker we were not suppose to get each other anything but I was really surprised and greatful beacuse they are wonderful).

Crochet Along Afghan

Most of you know I love to crochet and in September I came across on one of the sites I follow what was called a crochet along. A crochet along is when you are given pieces of a project each week until it is done and you don't know what it will look like until the end. All I knew about this project was the colors and that it would be an afghan so I decided I would try and do this for my mother-in-law for Christmas since she would be here and I knew she would love something like this. It was a lot of fun to do and see pieces of an afghan slowly coming together week by week. I almost finished it in time for Christmas day. I had the whole thing put together to wrap for her other then the border. I was able to finish the border before she left and this is the finished Afghan. I am very happy with how it came out and so was she.

Christmas Decorations 2010

Here is our beautiful Christmas Tree.

We have a potpourri tree a little of everything from my hope of a magazine tree bows and beads, kids handmade ornament, lighted ornaments, wood, metal, glass and plastic as well as stuffed animal ornaments. We just love our tree.

I got many wonderful Christmas cards yet again this year which is one of my favorite things about Christmas, getting mail in the mailbox. Don't you just love when you get something in your outside mailbox!

Here are a few of the Christmas art projects on display from years past.

We have a wonderful fireplace which made for fun decorating and hanging of stockings!

Our advent calendar house and some of my village pieces. I haven't had my village out in probably 6 years because of little people. I was glad to have it out this year even though a few pieces were broken Sariyah really enjoyed getting it out and the kids all loved looking at it all month long.

A few more village pieces and my big snow globe tree!

I just love Christmas decorations!

Christmas Morning

Santa must have loved the goodies the kids left because as you can see it is all gone as well as the milk.

Santa left wonderful gifts by the tree!

The stocking were all lined up in front of the fire place all stuffed with Christmas joy! Austin even got his own quart of Chocolate Milk (boy does Santa know him well).

Blaize was so excited to see his red present from Santa of which he was sure was his Chow(Lightning McQueen) Computer!

A little bit of the wrapping paper got torn so he could see into the gift a little and couldn't wait to open it.

The kids all got what they wanted for Christmas from Santa and enjoyed seeing what each other got from Santa and everyone else. We really had a wonderful Christmas day and hope that everyone else was able to enjoy their Christmas day as well! Merry Christmas 2010!

Grandma Kris's Gift for Blaize

My mom was able to be with us this year for Thanksgiving and left her gifts for the kids for Christmas when she left. I put them under the tree after we got it up and decorated. I wasn't sure I would be able to put gifts under the tree before Christmas due to Blaize (I thought he would not be able to help himself opening things) Much to my surprise he did just fine with leaving the gifts wrapped, what he did do was he liked to look at the gifts and hold them or play with them. Blaize would get his gift for him from my mom and take it all around the house he even used it as a ramp for his cars once or twice. He always held it by this one ribbon. He would use this one ribbon to twist around his cars even. As you can see the gift stayed in tack the whole month and he was able to straigten that one ribbon from all of the carrying. This was Christmas morning so the paper being torn at the top was from him starting to open it but I had to get a picture of it before he finished opening it. I have a couple of picture of him playing with his cars with the box once I figure out how to down load pictures off of my phone I will add them.