We stayed around this year for Christmas and New Year’s Day and December was full of fun!! Here are some highlights of the season for us:
My Opa (grandpa) turned 80 December 14th but he’s going to get his very own post after this one with more pictures and a video/slide show = yippee!!
I turned 27 on December 16th. I’m not old, but I’m getting close to being able to say things like “when I was your age…” or “things just aren’t made the way they used to be…” 🙂 Well, this is the second birthday I’ve been able to enjoy with my husband and he really gave me a great birthday! Here are some pretty flowers in an awesome vase!!!
We stayed home with dinner and a movie (He made me a wonderful dinner). Then we decided to finally put together the gingerbread house. It’s the first one I can remember making. I guess my mom can correct me if I made one when I was a kid. But at least I know I haven’t made one in a LONG time! AND IT SHOWS! They are harder to make than they look. I guess the nice thing when making these is when you get “glue” on your hands, you get to lick it off 🙂
Christmas was nice and a lot more normal than usual. For the first time in a few years, all 5 of my immediate family were here! No one was traveling or anything! See, last year we had to use a photo of my brother for the family photo, but not this year 🙂
Christmas ’07
Christmas ’08
Christmas ’08 – all 7 of us 🙂
We also all got matching pajamas from the Z family modeled so beautifully here:
The gentleman and I worked on some photography projects which I will start blogging about very soon.
New Year’s Eve is always fun but we didn’t bring a camera, so no pictures 🙂
And as far as “photo a day” well…I’ve changed that to Photo Fridays. That’s right, I can’t handle the commitment of one a day so I’ve decided once a week will be better. A photo and a question or story. I think it will be fun. So I’m starting…NOW!
This is a photo of a clock I made. For Christmas I made people in my families clocks out of plates! I think they turned out pretty fun. So, what’s your favorite thing you’ve ever made anyone?
Hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year’s Day!
2009, what will be in store?
One reply on “Holiday Highlights”
Yikes, too many pictures!Ok, pretty birthday flowers…Jared your jammies are too big…I like my plate clock, thanks…and um, I didn’t realize how weird our family is.