Monthly archives: December 2011

 

 

Ashley's Angel

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Our church puts out angels every year at Christmas time.  You can purchase one and personalize it any way you wish, i.e. in memory or in honor of someone.  They put them around the nativity scene on the front lawn and their candles light up at night.  You may remember that we bought one in [...]

 

Christmas 2011

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We had a wonderful Christmas!  I hope you all did as well!  Ashley got lots of toys, books, shoes, etc.  Now we are just trying to find a place to put them all!  Her big present from Santa was a Strider Bike.  The concept is that if a child can walk, they can ride the [...]

 

The Retail Scam

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The price I thought it was (you can see another sticky underneath)

The price I thought it was (you can see another sticky underneath)

Okay, so now that Christmas is over I just have to blog about this… I call it a “scam” but I’m sure it’s just a common practice among retailers.  I just never suspected they did it at my favorite store – Kohl’s!  I bought a few Christmas presents there this year and as I was [...]

 

Christmas Cookies

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We baked and decorated Christmas cookies today with our friends Jan and Brody.  The kids loved it and it was neat seeing how differently they decorated their cookies.  Brody was more interested in eating the cookies plain and Ashley was more interested in eating the icing off the cookies.  They also loved eating the sprinkles.  [...]

 

 

Gingerbread House

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Ashley and I worked on our gingerbread house this week!  I set it up on her little table so she would have easy access to help me decorate and then cranked up the Christmas tunes.  She was doing good until she realized that the white stuff was icing!  So as I was working on one [...]

 

 

The Winter Blues

Ashley has been sick with a virus this week.  It started in the wee mornings hours on Wednesday with vomiting.  And now it’s a fever that comes and goes.  One minute, once the medicine has taken hold, she eats, drinks, smiles, and plays.  But once the medicine wears off, she quickly goes downhill as her [...]

 

So Proud!

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I have to brag about Ashley a little.  I am so stinkin’ proud of her!  For those of you that don’t know her very well, she is very introverted in public and social situations.  She’s a crazy wild woman at home, but it takes her a while to warm up to people in public.  She’s [...]

 

Toby's Early Christmas

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We got Toby a dog bed today for Christmas.  He and Blake used to have their own couch, which they slept on every night.  But when we put our house on the market back in April, we got rid of the couch.  It wasn’t exactly show-worthy.  And ever since then, the boys have had to [...]