Bowling Night Continued

Here's some more pictures.

Bowling Night 2007!

It seems as though our family has created a new tradition. On the weekend that everyone comes to town, we try and coordinate a family bowling night. This was a great way for us all to get together and also interact with the kids too! They sometimes get left out with all the hustle and bustle. Sometimes I wish we could just slow down!

This year I didn't bowl. I threw my back out (...or did I?) so I got to sit back and watch everyone and take pictures. Well, let's be honest I did do some snickering too! Wow, we are not a family of great bowlers. The kids did great but they had bumper pads. No Fair!

Christmas Decorations

I promised I would post pictures of how my house looked after all the hard work decorating. I ended up with two big trees, one in the living room and one in the dining room, and another small one (if you can really call it a tree) in the kitchen. It seemed like it took forever!

I hosted our family Christmas Eve get together and everyone loved the house and the food. We had a great time. I can't believe Christmas has already come and gone. It goes by so quickly! I just took everything down yesterday and now my house looks so bare in comparison. But all the clutter was starting to drive me a bit batty.

Hope you enjoy the photos!

O Christmas Tree!

Here is our lovely family Christmas tree and the hams that are helping to decorate. They love the fact that they get to put breakable stuff on the tree. Abby & Maggie were great helpers and so patient to wait until Mom & Dad could get the lights and ribbon just right! Check out the lovely branch with 101 ornaments on it. Can you guess who might have done the honors? She was so sweet about decorating and worked so hard. I didn't have the heart to rearrange all of them so there they will stay until we take the tree down in January. Good job Maggie! Good job Abby (such a special little helper!). I'll post more pictures as I get the rest of my house decorated. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get!!!!

Merry Christmas to all...

This is the Christmas card I made for an exchange I participated in with the members of my card making class this year. It's my first attempt at an exchange. I think the card turned out pretty good. All the ladies loved it! There are of course a few things I might have done different. On the inside I included a CD of Christmas music that I burned. They especially loved the CD and it worked out great for my class because we listened to it all night while we made cards! Hope you like it.