Decorating for the Christmas Season

Last week I got all my Christmas decorating done, at least I think!  I bought ribbon to make a new bow for our tree but I'm already thinking I'll do that next year.  The Christmas decor is a little bit of this and a little  bit of that in my house.  I don't have a whole lot of room but still buy a few things every year to add to the decor.  This year we had to buy a new tree.  Chris suggested wanting a 9 foot tree so we went with that.  I'm still not sure I'm crazy about the taller tree in my living room but I suppose the husband should get what he wants sometimes too, lol!  I did let him know already that when I take the tree down this year I'll be getting rid of a lot of the mixed ornaments and only keep special memory ones because next year I am finally going to do a themed tree.  I've wanted to for years but feel like I don't have room for another small tree anywhere to put special ornaments on.  I guess come next year I'll figure out how to make it work!





Back in October Kirklands had a Santa Canvas that I really wanted, of course when I got ready to buy it they didn't have anymore.  So this is the one Chris picked out as his favorite. I had forgotten about getting the picture he liked best too!



The kids always can't wait to put the ornaments on the tree.  Maybe I should say the two youngest ones really.  Haiden and Ryan don't get so excited about it anymore, or at least they don't show it!  They always look for ornaments they have made to hang first which makes it really difficult to get rid of any, lol.  Then no matter who it is they all want to stretch as high as they can to hang the ornaments towards the top of the tree.  Needless to say I always do some rearranging once we're done!






A favorite ornament, because of course no matter how much fun or pretty decorating is, it's this very simple reason that this time of year even exist.  Jesus came and gave himself that we may have life more abundantly if we will but choose to live it for Him.  May you be blessed to give to others during this season!

Merry Christmas


So Many Happenings

The last month or so has been a busy one!  That's really nothing new these days but sometimes there are those months where you seem to have the schedule filled up from week to week, and unexpected things get added to it as well.  Even in all of this there is strength and joy along the way because our busyness of life revolves around family and church happenings! 

Breann had a school play, The Mighty Minds, at the beginning of October and it was a really cute play.  She was so excited about having a main speaking part and she truly did AWESOME!  She was the Music Mighty Mind.  The play was an encouragement to third graders not to worry about the state test they will have to take this year.

                                                                                       
With her friends afterwards

The very next day after Breanns' play we made a fast trip to Colorado for the weekend due to my grandmother having a stroke earlier that week while asleep the night before they were going to head back home.  I know without a doubt my Nanny had a wonderful time as she has always loved nature and beautiful scenery!  The doctors were not giving much hope at all for her to even make it or be able to do anything if she did make it, but it is AMAZING what God has done.  My grandmother has done many things and even in a time sooner than the doctors said she might could do these things.  We are still praying and believing for a miracle of complete healing in her body, and I know God is with her through this all!  Even in this fast little trip we enjoyed the scenery ourselves and made a couple little stops along the way.

My dad wanted to take the kids to a park, the trees were so pretty

Colten made me so nervous on this cliff


His hands were so cold, lol





The following weekend I went to a ladies retreat and had a wonderful time!  While I was gone Chris and the kids did quiet a bit of Bible reading that Saturday to get caught up on the 40 days of fire reading plan.  On Sunday morning Chris had went in the kids room and Colten was on his bed reading the Bible all on his own.  That very Sunday night, October 27th, Colten was filled with the Holy Ghost, whoohoo!
Oh what JOY so see a child receive the Holy Ghost



Then Thursday, October 31st we had our Fall Blast event in our church parking lot.  The kids always get so excited about dressing up!  I have to admit I do not, lol.  Costumes can be so expensive and when you have 4 kids it adds up to cost more money than I care to spend!


The day after the Fall Blast we had family pictures taken by Kassie and Priscilla.  It was kind of spur of the moment deal even though I have talked to them for years about doing family pictures for us.  I just never made it happen!  One day I was actually relaxing on my couch, looking at the kids pictures on the wall made me say within myself we have got to get some new pictures.  Haiden was 8 in the picture hung on the wall so that is 6 years ago.  Way too long!  So in a matter of 3 weeks I managed to figure out what we would wear and felt like I went everywhere to make it all come together.  All a bit stressful in my opinion!  Here is one picture for now, I'll do another post with more pics later, but I was very pleased with our pictures and of course expected nothing less from my friends as I have always loved photos they've taken!




A little over a week ago Breann had her 9th birthday!  I really just can't believe my "little girl" is growing up.  I feel like inside my heart she will always be our little girl since she is our only daughter.  We don't have parties for the kids every year and this was one of those years, thankfully, lol!  The kids pick what dinner and dessert they want me to make and we celebrate as family when there is no party.  This year we had Mark and Kelli join us since they are close by and we just consider them a third set of grandparents to the kids now!  It ended up being a fun night with lots of laughs!


Dad had to be out of town so we did FaceTime


These two got to put together  her stroller, it was hilarious!


My last thing to share is Breann getting baptized last night, November 17th, in the name of Jesus!  I'm so glad she decided to take this step.  For whatever reason she has been hesitant for so long, and I just left it alone knowing that when God dealt with her she would make the decision.  No doubt God was speaking to her little heart yesterday and last night.  During service last night she needed to go out twice, which my kids know our goal is to never go out during service, and I really thought she may be getting sick, but she told me she felt fine.  We had already made plans to leave as soon as service was over due to me feeling like she may have a bug.  Then Angel started talking to her about getting baptized and she said she wanted to and told us it was to have all her sins washed away.  While she was changing she let me know she had been thinking about it throughout the day.  I realized then all her needing to go out during church was because she was nervous and God was dealing with her.   God draws each and every one of us and it is our choice how we respond!


God is good and life is good when you live it for the Lord!

Fall Is Here

Fall is such a lovely time of the year!  It's a season that brings changes and somehow just makes life seem fresh during this time.  In fall and spring I tend to change things around my house, and I always start to exercise only to stop once the weather gets too cold or too hot after spring.  Also for the past few years we have 40 days of fire at our church during October denying our flesh of different things each week, focusing on daily prayer, and specified reading material which no doubt in all creates a renewed fresh focus on God.  With all this being said I suppose it's why I feel like fall brings freshness to life!

The sun was setting while taking pictures of my outside fall decor
In making this post I realize it's been almost a year since my last post just after Thanksgiving.  I just don't have it figured out how to keep my blog up to date with life being so busy.  I would love to keep it updated more regularly because I think of it as scrap booking happenings in our life as time goes by.  I know that as days pass I can always go back to my blog and go down memory lane, and one day my kids will grow up and probably enjoy looking back at some things here too.  I really think blogging is better than scrap booking because there is more to be said.  No matter how much or how little I make post here I never intend on deleting my blog for the main purpose of looking back over life whenever I wish!

I finally got all my fall decor out last weekend and I just love the colors!  Green is my favorite color but when it comes down to what surrounds me, brown and tan tones making that warm feeling is what I revert to in decorating and this is why I think I love fall decor so much.  I guess it's what I'm comfortable with!  I used most of my fall things from last year while adding a few new things from ideas I got from pinterest. 

My outside decor is simple but I really like it!  Idea from Pinterest
Wreath from last fall still looks nice!
My friend got me these cute leaf bowls last year

Pumpkins from Kirklands, I could shop in that store any day!

 Purchased the print from JoyfulArtDesigns

Had the burlap pumpkins last year, but would like block letters
Tiny pumpkins are just so cute!

Until my next post, enjoy the Fall Season and get a fresh start on some things in life!


 

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