Merry Christmas to All...

Happy Anniversary, Sweetie :)

Money can't buy you love

With no money, but a lot of love, I figured out a present to make for my sweet husband to celebrate 9 years of marriage. I used the Robert's coupon to buy a little stretched canvas for about $2.50. Painted it black, mod podged on the image, and stapled on the ribbon.
The significant part is really the image. I spent quite some time looking like a stalker across the street from this house, lol. This is the house where I was living when Michael and I met, started dating, and got engaged. It is a different color now -- it used to be blue. The text reads "Every Love has a beginning". Sorry about the lousy pictures, it was hard to get a good one in my dark basement without getting too much glare.

 

 

Jarbh Family Popcorn and Reading

For any of you "out of the loop" -- my family is known (from within) as the Jarbh family. Jarbh means the whole family starting with my mom down to the grandkids. Put simply, I made up the name using letters from each last name in the family.

"Popcorn and Reading" is a time-honored tradition for the family. I grew up on Sunday afternoon popcorn and reading time. Now we get together as a family once a month for some sort of activity. This month we had another popcorn and reading time.
Each family brought a short story / book and we had popcorn and hot chocolate.

The last story was done by my mom. She was sharing the Nativity with help from the grandkids. We had a chorus of angels, a bunch of shepherds, three wise guys, a real live baby, and a real live manger. (Well, Baby's daddy was the "manger").

Here are a few pictures I got from the evening:

 

 

Ward Christmas Party

 

Last night was the ward Christmas party. Of course Santa came, and I took pictures of the kids with him. (Well, being me, I ended up taking pictures of all of the kids with Santa. After editing and tidying up, I still had over 160 pictures, lol). They were adorable, of course.

The picture with Sabrina's head on my knee was while I was photographing. I was sitting on the floor and she finally came and curled up by me. She's such a sweet little kitten!

I also got a video of all the 3 and 4 year olds singing "Once there was a snowman" and all the primary kids singing "Jingle Bells" before Santa came. Let me find my link...

A few Christmas ornaments of note...

Christmas Decorating

 

 

 

 

Here are a few pictures from a couple of weeks ago when we decorated the Christmas Tree. I will add more in a bit...