A peek at our first Christmas this year.

Hope all this cash fits in the pocket!

This top has a clear jeweled smiley face on it with a rainy day skirt. :)

I was teaching Mackenzie how to take photos of Teslin with her camera. I offered to hold the jingle bell but she wanted to do it herself. :)

Telsin loved her new slippers.

Teslin had a toy for the cat.

Mackenzie loves her dresses!

Pre-Christmas 2010

Here are a few pre-Christmas photos of our fun activities. This white tree is in my bedroom--I know it looks quite cluttered. I have snow globes with a photo of each grandbaby. My goal is to fill the top of the dresser--lol.

Shoes--still a tad too big for Tes. But they are adorable!

They were doing the advent candles at church with the "help" of the girls. :)

PEEK A BOO

Sister lovings.

Christmas dinner

I just had to share this photo of the cake that I made for a dinner I had at our house. It is a white cake with 3 different flavors of jello and frosted with cook whip!! So easy and I was so pleased that it actually looks great. I had made this cake before but it never did look so nice.

OOOPS, a little santa's helper showed up!! :)

Christmas preparations

Mackenzie made sure grandpa participated in the tree decorating activity!! She just HAD to put a few ornaments up high!

Making sure there were decorations on the back side of the tree!

My little ballerina came to help decorate the tree. I hadn't had so much fun decorating a tree in a long long time. She was sooo thrilled with so many of the ornaments. She would cradle some in her hands and be so thrilled asking if it used to be her mom's or not.

Making use of the storage containers as I decorated the house!

This little one just LOVES wearing hats. I made this hat for a friend and she found it. I think she did a great job modeling it!! :)

Thanksgiving blessing

It is always fun to see what the Lord has in store for me. Thanksgiving day was no exception to His surprises and I wasn't expecting anything, I'm afraid to admit.
It was a couple of hours before dinner time and my son-in-law was needing coffee so I told him to go ahead and make some but I will get the coffee beans for him to grind. Well, I searched my freezer and refrigerator over and over again for those beans and couldn't find them so he resigned to the fact that he wasn't going to get any coffee. He took the girls downstairs to play and watch a movie. Sometime later, while they were down there, there was a knock at the door. I was surprised to see a neighbor out there with a couple of bags of goodies for us. Well, in one of the bags was a bag of coffee beans!!! with some cookies, of course to add to the excitement! I felt soooo blessed and so did my son-in-law. God is soooo good!!

One Year old Birthday Girls!!

Teslin's reaction was typical of a girl turning 30---not sure what her reaction is going to be when that day comes!!! LOL

Skylar's reaction was---"just another day" Although, she knew it was very special!