Christmas - Home

I was going to try to get caught up but I'm still very slow at making my layouts. I still have to listen to the tutorial and then try and do what she said. Slow but I'm learning. Colin is coming down with a cold and didn't sleep well last night so I was very tired today. I did this layout and then needed a nap.

day 24 - the middle

I am slowly getting caught up. We had a wonderful Christmas Eve with Aaron's parents. Lauren was able to help Mimi make our Christmas morning cake. It was very sweet. I'm hoping that will be a new tradition.

Day 24 - the first half and the end

Aaron got me Photoshop Elements for Christmas and I am trying to learn how to us the program. This layout doesn't do the program justice but it's my first try. I just want to get caught up before the new year. We had a great Christmas. I will have more layouts later.

No Tears

I know I haven't posted Christmas yet but I got Photoshop Elements for Christmas and am trying to learn to use it before I do Christmas. I wanted to post for today because Lauren got her ears pierced. This is something she has been talking about for a long time. This was totally her idea. She did great. There were no tears just smiles. The third picture on the right side is them actually piercing her ears. That was as upset as she got. It was very cool because my sister and family happened to be in the mall and were able to be with us. A great day for my little girl.

Day 23 - borrowed from 19

I've had a few comments about my advent calendar. Mine was a gift from my mother-in-law and we have loved it this year. She ordered it from a catalogue but I also found it on-line. This is the only web site but it had a decent price. My kids love building the nativity set each day. For all that are interested here is a link.
http://www.stpatricksguild.com/browse.cfm/4,11451.html

So today was a nothing special day but I had some cute pictures from Friday when David and Lindsey were babysitting so I'm borrowing those for today. Once again I fall back on that this is my daily album. Sometimes it has been hard to limit my pictures so today was a good excuse to use some pictures from a few days ago. The one snow pictures is from today.

Day 22 - Lazy

If you are reading my blog for the first time today please note there are two posts today.

After such a busy weekend it seemed like a nice idea to stay home today, of course as I'm writing this I'm thinking a little outing would have been nice. Nothing very Christmas like today but got house stuff done. The kids played great this morning but are ready for a break now.

Day 21 - VERY busy

Today was very busy. We had Lauren's Christmas program at church in the morning. Came home for lunch and then Mary, Lauren and I headed to the Nutcracker ballet in the afternoon. We got home and headed out a little later for our bible study Christmas party. It was a very full day but filled with great memories.

The kids were told to yell the word go. I think they got it.