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Saturday, April 30, 2016

SWEETNESS!

Candy, candy and more candy...for that SWEET sixteen beauty with the more ginormous SWEET tooth!


Her party was filled with SWEET friends...

SWEET family...

SWEET memories...Josh put together a sweet video filled with Hannah's photos through the years.

SWEET times...

SWEET times eating...

SWEET smiles...

SWEET gifts...

SWEET fun with a tiny polaroid camera!



Can't believe our SWEETIE turned SIXTEEN.

Always stay as SWEET as you are, Hannah.


SWEET 16!







This book was so very, very special for me to do. Through smiles and tears came my words. Words of love, life, encouragement, faith. From my heart to hers. Pictures of her through the past 16 years.



Here was the questionnaire that was filled out by everyone at the party. Such cute answers! Corrin ended up winning the prize. 

Above are Hannah's answers.

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Things I've come to know. Part 9

~Not many people see "behind the scenes" in our lives. But it's the behind the scenes that matter.
~Those silly run-around errands on the weekends- they mean something to the kiddos. It's time together.
~Spiritual teachers are all around us. Listen to them. It's food for the soul.
~Ponds dry skin cream. Best $4.99 I have spent all month.
~Pray. Take the time. Keep it simple. It's powerful.
~You can be crazy confused about life stuff but still have faith!
~Listen to the old folks. They matter and they know more than we give them credit for at times.
~Cook together. The kids learn and I think it's romantic with the hubs.
~Tell the truth. All the time. No matter what.
~Pick a word for the year. Not a resolution. Then reflect and pray about that special word. You will personally look back, remember that word for years and how you grew and were inspired by it.
~Coldplay's new album: awesome.
~Treat those friends that mean a lot to you good.
~Snow sucks after the month of December.
~You can't have lovely looong gorgeous hair if you weren't born with lovely, luscious gorgeous hair!
~Take your kids to Disney World in the winter and before they leave for college in a couple years.
~As an artist, it's okay to change and grow and try different ways to paint/create/write...
~Thank goodness God's mercy, grace and forgiveness is new each day.
~Get involved with girls to exercise. Like, WOW. (Love our WorkOUT Wednesdays!)
~Keep it simple. Keep it real. Keep it loving. Keep it clear.
~We ALL can make better choices in the zillion choices and distractions we have each day.
~Find amazing people online that have blogs that inspire you...follow them.
~Work as a team as a family. It makes it more peaceful. Don't fight all the battles. Choose them.
~Eat when you are hungry. What your body craves. Then stop.
~Love fair trade.
~Love your furry fellows. They have souls.
~Anything can change in a month. Drastically.
~I so very much desire to be a positive, good, loving force and influence in life.
~Young mommy's: when older mom's tell you to enjoy your little's because you will blink your eyes and they will be 16 before you know it. Believe them! They are right.
~Devotional apps rock.
~One of my favorite things to do is to listen to Josh (upstairs) rock on his guitar/sing downstairs. He doesn't know how good I can hear him! (Shhh.)
~To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.

"So you think there's a grand plan? Why...this or that happened? There's a plan. You go on living the best you can and you try to have some fun along the way. Then one day it's over. You wake up and there's an angel at the edge of your bed. The angel says "okay, you can ask me all those dumb questions...because I've got all the answers now."           -Unbroken


More here if you'd like to continue...


Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Christmas GIFTS


We opened gifts here.

Guitar hero gift was a hit.

Then Nana came over to open gifts.

Then to Steve/Heather's for opening family gifts there.


Ending the gifts with the gift of an awesome meal!


Christmas Eve

I love Christmas Eve. 
The quiet night of a beautiful church service, warm decorations in a warm home, family...

Posing!

Smiles!

Good food!

Cuties!

Baby Jesus!

A little one's excitement and awe anticipating the morning...

The Night Before Christmas.

The reason for the season.

Love it.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Decorations.

I try to hand-make a lot of things for Christmas. 
I went with more neutral and natural elements and just had fun this year! 
This JOY is just paper over letters...and the birds. 
I have a problem with really cute, pudgy fun birdies! 
These have come to me through the years. Added another "Momma" bird this year.

I put teeny tiny lights and fun cute hand-made trees (from art group in the past) and little houses and snow in some glass I had around. Then got creative with a simple but pretty canvas. 
Had fun doing the silver lettering on it.
(Kind of a bad picture, sorry.)

The wooden carved and white-washed trees. 
Got some of them at Marshall's last year. AND they had more this year! 

Printed and framed a couple "Elf" movie quotes. 
Loved this one! 
Gotta love that movie.

Our tree. It is from our dear friends that went to Ecuador years back for mission work. 
Of course because they couldn't bring it with them! 
They gifted it to us and it's so special to us.

Wintery/Christmasy stuff

It was Miss Polly's birthday December 18th. 
We celebrate!
You can see she was so thrilled to celebrate! ha.

Alright people...Colorado is DRY on a normal day. 
Then put winter in. 
Our lips.
Our poor poor lips.
Clearly we have plenty of lipgloss, lipstick, lipgoop, lip moisture around the house!

Lauren rocks with nails.

Daddy got his toesies done! 
He PROUDLY showed them off to everyone that came to the house.

We discovered "adult" coloring pages. 
For meditation and relaxation and stress.
Yes, please.

Christmas gifts. 
My brother wanted to know what to get the girls for Christmas. 
This is what what they said when I asked them.
LOL.

Polly has a bit of a problem. 
Like, an obsession really. 
She needs therapy or meds or something.
This was her 2nd Olaf. She loves Olaf. 
Plays with him, drags him along, chews him to pieces, can't be without him.


Winter hiking!

Making chai tea!

Winter building...

and shoveling...

snuggling in front of a warm fire...

Winter is about cute hats!

...and snowshoeing on the hills next to us.

FREE Star Wars tickets.
Mama had a bit of a dizzy/neck problem being in the THIRD row, but....
Aweeeesooome.

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