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Monday, December 28, 2015
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas one and all. We are so blessed to be celebrating the birth or our Savior. It has been great to be able to have all of our kids, grandchild and in laws. Alexander and Ivy got into town Sunday night. We were at a fun friends Christmas Caroling party.
Monday, we got to celebrate Latisha's up coming birthday. She wanted it a little early so Alex could be here. He has been at all her parties to date.
Thursday night we had a Christmas eve party with our children's inlaws. It was a great time complete with entertainment. The girls performed, Alex and Ivy sang a song and the kids acted out the story of the Nativity with Alex and Brent adding the music and all present the singing. It was great.
Friday we had a great Christmas day. Cassandra was sure to keep us focused on the reason for the season and we were blessed to be surrounded with our loved ones. I hope you all had a great Christmas. We are looking forward to the New Year and all God has in store for our future.
Alicia
Monday, we got to celebrate Latisha's up coming birthday. She wanted it a little early so Alex could be here. He has been at all her parties to date.
Thursday night we had a Christmas eve party with our children's inlaws. It was a great time complete with entertainment. The girls performed, Alex and Ivy sang a song and the kids acted out the story of the Nativity with Alex and Brent adding the music and all present the singing. It was great.
Friday we had a great Christmas day. Cassandra was sure to keep us focused on the reason for the season and we were blessed to be surrounded with our loved ones. I hope you all had a great Christmas. We are looking forward to the New Year and all God has in store for our future.
Alicia
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| Kids performance at church |
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| Our family Sunday before Christmas |
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| Cassandra |
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| Danika |
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| The girls |
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| Alexander and Ivy |
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| Brent and Alex |
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| Cassandra was Mary and August Baby Jesus |
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| The Shepherds |
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| Christmas Pj's |
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| August's first Christmas |
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| Ivy and Alex 1st married Christmas |
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| White Christmas, Christmas morning |
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| Unwrapping presents fun |
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| Our happy family |
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| So Sweet |
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| The newlyweds |
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| Latisha's Prebirthday Party |
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| Happy Birhtday to you |
Monday, December 21, 2015
Christmas Time
It is officially Christmas week. The presents are wrapped and the food bought, so time to relax and enjoy the season. Hope you are all enjoying this lovely time of year and the blessing of our Savior. Merry Christmas!
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Lights
So in my mind I am a very courageous intended person. :) That means I have things I think I can do but deep inside me I have a fear issue. I have shared this story before so here is the abbreviated version. Fourteen years ago, while on vacation I was so excited to find out we could take a little class at the resort we were at and they would take us out in the ocean, and start scuba diving. When we got out there and they explained I had to flip off the boat backwards with all my scuba tank on in the the ocean I froze and couldn't do it, which prompted them to push me over the edge to show me I could. This ended my scuba trip and I went back in the boat very disappointed with myself.
Yesterday, I decided to put up lights on our house. David was not feeling very well yesterday, so I thought I would take on the job. I started off fine and got the ladders up, but they didn't reach the peak of the roof. I knew I needed to go on the roof. I kept trying to rationalize how it wasn't a big deal and once up there I would be fine. But the wind kept blowing and I was having a hard time following through. Finally, I got up the courage and up I started climbing to a spot I could get on the roof. I climbed over the top of the ladder onto the roof and it was a bit slippery and the ladder slid a bit. I sat down with my racing heart and shaking arms, and thought, if I sit up here long enough I will acclimate and be able to move. The wind was blowing through my hair and this did not help a bit. I started to move and did not feel like I could get a good grip with my feet. Once again quite disappointed in myself, I called Sierra (thankfully I had my phone on me) and asked her to come help put the ladder back in position so I could get down. You would not believe how hard is was to get enough courage to swing my leg back over the ladder and climb down, but I don't think there was another option and trying not to be a total wimp in front of my offspring I did it.
Fear is a funny thing. Sometimes it protects us and sometimes it prevents us from accomplishing things we want to do like scuba diving and hanging lights on our house. Maybe it wasn't safe for me to be up there or maybe I needed more courage. My son in law got up on his roof and put up his lights that day so it couldn't have been that bad. I did finish my lights in a line across the front of my house, very unprofessional looking but they are up and will hopefully add a little holiday cheer to those coming to our home. Here is the finished sad product but done in love. Have a great day and God bless.
Alicia
Yesterday, I decided to put up lights on our house. David was not feeling very well yesterday, so I thought I would take on the job. I started off fine and got the ladders up, but they didn't reach the peak of the roof. I knew I needed to go on the roof. I kept trying to rationalize how it wasn't a big deal and once up there I would be fine. But the wind kept blowing and I was having a hard time following through. Finally, I got up the courage and up I started climbing to a spot I could get on the roof. I climbed over the top of the ladder onto the roof and it was a bit slippery and the ladder slid a bit. I sat down with my racing heart and shaking arms, and thought, if I sit up here long enough I will acclimate and be able to move. The wind was blowing through my hair and this did not help a bit. I started to move and did not feel like I could get a good grip with my feet. Once again quite disappointed in myself, I called Sierra (thankfully I had my phone on me) and asked her to come help put the ladder back in position so I could get down. You would not believe how hard is was to get enough courage to swing my leg back over the ladder and climb down, but I don't think there was another option and trying not to be a total wimp in front of my offspring I did it.
Fear is a funny thing. Sometimes it protects us and sometimes it prevents us from accomplishing things we want to do like scuba diving and hanging lights on our house. Maybe it wasn't safe for me to be up there or maybe I needed more courage. My son in law got up on his roof and put up his lights that day so it couldn't have been that bad. I did finish my lights in a line across the front of my house, very unprofessional looking but they are up and will hopefully add a little holiday cheer to those coming to our home. Here is the finished sad product but done in love. Have a great day and God bless.
Alicia
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| finished |
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| They are a bit brighter then this picture shows :) |
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| The tree is up and the stockings are hung, let's celebrate the birth of our Savior |
Friday, November 27, 2015
Happy Thanksgiving
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. There truly are so many things to be thankful for. This is a wonderful holiday to just take a minute and really be thankful. It is so easy sometimes to focus on problems that the blessings of life can get overshadowed. I pray that I will have a thankful heart at all times.
We were able to share this holiday with some wonderful family. Alex and Ivy came here for the week and it has been so wonderful to share time with them. We are so blessed to have the apartment at the end of the house where they can have a little more space and I hope they were able to have some rejuvenation for their busy life. Brent, Latisha and August were also able to spend the holiday with us. It is so fun to have a baby around again and August is such a sweet baby it is all the more special.
The holiday had almost gone but I snapped a couple quick pictures. Enjoy and God Bless
Alicia
We were able to share this holiday with some wonderful family. Alex and Ivy came here for the week and it has been so wonderful to share time with them. We are so blessed to have the apartment at the end of the house where they can have a little more space and I hope they were able to have some rejuvenation for their busy life. Brent, Latisha and August were also able to spend the holiday with us. It is so fun to have a baby around again and August is such a sweet baby it is all the more special.
The holiday had almost gone but I snapped a couple quick pictures. Enjoy and God Bless
Alicia
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| Alex and Ivy |
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| Latisha, August and Brent |
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| The kiddos, did a little performing for us. Danika is getting quite good on her new instrument and even had her first recital that her teacher held just for her and our family a couple weeks ago. Cassandra has quite the smile here and Isabella was having a great time playing on the piano. She just kept laughing and applauding herself after she hit some keys. |
Monday, November 16, 2015
Fall Pictures
I feel blessed that I was able to take some pictures of one of the most beautiful families I know. My lovely daughter, Latisha asked me to take their family pictures for their Christmas cards. I was a bit nervous but am very happy with how they turned out. It was a beautiful day and my subjects looked lovely so it was easy. They decided to take the pictures at Brent's college as this time next year he will be graduating!
Tomorrow is August's 5 month birthday. How fast it goes but he is getting so handsome and big, we are so blessed to have him in our lives. We tried to get pictures of him but he was not wanting to smile, he was too busy exploring his environment. He would smile for grandma then by the time I had the camera up, lost his smile. It would have been wise to have brought a helper to keep him smiling, but the pictures are still great.
Tomorrow is August's 5 month birthday. How fast it goes but he is getting so handsome and big, we are so blessed to have him in our lives. We tried to get pictures of him but he was not wanting to smile, he was too busy exploring his environment. He would smile for grandma then by the time I had the camera up, lost his smile. It would have been wise to have brought a helper to keep him smiling, but the pictures are still great.
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| Such a sweetie! |
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| he just started sitting up, here he is slowly falling :) |
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