Gifts that don't fit in a box

Today in sharing time the Primary president had a box on the table and asked the kids to tell her about gifts that don't fit in a box. The first answers were an elephant, a horse and a cheetah.
Eventually they got around to the answers she was looking for: love, the gospel, family and friends.

By the way, our house got delayed again. We have to have 2 paystubs that are dated after the 19th of December. That means we can't close until after January 6th. That also means we don't get the interest rate we were locked in at: 5.95. Instead we get 5.25. That will end up saving us $63 each month. WHOOO HOOOO!!!

Only 4 days till Christmas!

Lost is Found

Well, after hours of searching everywhere we could think of, we finally found the ornaments. We asked our upstairs neighbor if she had seen the ornaments and she hadn't, but she asked her mom, who had mistakenly thought they were hers. So we got them back, and the tree is so pretty!

Only 1 week till Christmas!!!

Picture Tag

The object of the picture tag is to:
1) Choose the 4th folder where you store your pictures on your computer
2) Select the 4th picture in the folder
3) Explain the picture
4) Tag 4 people to do the same
NO CHEATING! (cropping, editing, etc!)
I had a small problem doing this though, my pictures are in extra folders, so I had to go to the 4th folder in the 4th folder and then the 4th picture.

This is a copy of the ultrasound pictures from Kaleb when I was about 7 months along.


I tag..... YOU!

Only 8 days till Christmas!!!

Our Tree is Up!

I've been procrastinating getting our Christmas tree up, but I finally did it. I put it up last night and Karl fanned out the branches (yes we have a fake tree). It is really pretty, I'm debating leaving ornaments off it this year, partially because of something really sad that happened.
A little background: Before my mission I went to Germany for a few weeks with my parents to visit my brother and family. While we were there I bought a set of Christmas tree ornaments. They are plastic crystals about 5 inches long and vary in width, but at the widest are about 1 inch. They are very pretty and I have enjoyed having them on my tree. I also got some pretty silver ornaments very similar to the traditional silver balls, but made into other shapes. That Christmas I got some hand carved wooden ornaments from Niki and Mike as well as a Christmas pickle and a santa ornament. After Karl and I got married we bought silver ornaments from Things Remembered that have our names on them as well as one that says "Our first Christmas". When Kaleb and Von joined our family we had ornaments made for them too.
So since these ornaments are all very special to me I had them all in the same tupperware box. Last night when we were getting out our Christmas stuff the box was nowhere to be found. We have looked everywhere we can think of, including Karl going out to the shed in the freezing cold multiple times to see if we missed it in a different box.
Hopefully we will find the box as we move. Sometimes I know that things that are important to me Karl does just because they're important to me, last night I found out that while the ornaments are very special to me, they have become special to him too. Which is wonderful to know. I sure am lucky to have such a great husband.

Only 10 days left till Christmas!!

Snowflakes

Here are some AWESOME pictures of snowflakes:






To find out more about what makes each type of snowflake visit Snowcrystals.com

Only 13 days till Christmas!!

Quilts II

These are some pictures of quilt's I've made or people I know have made:

Here is a quilt given to Von after being in the NICU:


This is a wedding quilt for Mike and Elise:


This is my Mom and friends quilting a double wedding ring quilt (I don't remember who it was for):


This is a quilt I helped my Mom make for my Uncle Lyman:


A Quilt my Aunt Ruth Ann made:


A wedding quilt from my Aunts:


This is a Christmas present for Lydia and Brian:


This is Kaleb showing off the Cars Quilt I made him:


This is a wedding quilt for Brian and Cindy:


This is a Christmas present for Della and Chris:


This is a quilt Della made:


This is a Christmas present for Merrill and Iris:


I hope this helps you Lillie.

Quilts, quilts, quilts

I've been working on quilts lately. While I've really enjoyed it, I'm glad that I'm almost done with the ones for Christmas. One is in the mail (sorry for the spoiler Lillie). Another is done, except for the binding. And the last one has the top done but isn't quilted yet. Hopefully I'll get that done later this week, or early next week. In addition to those I've quilted a few for Mom, as well as one for the NICU. I'll put some pictures on soon.

Only 15 days till Christmas!