home from home!

We're back in sunny California! We landed in Burbank yesterday and as our plane touched down, I thought "We're home". Strange to now call and feel like Cali is home!! It was awesome and amazing to be (at our other) home for Christmas- to see all of our family and some of our friends and visit old places that have captured our hearts! We are so blessed to have family like you! Thank you again for a Christmas we will never forget! WE LOVE YOU!

Christmas!

We had Christmas morning this morning in hopes all is good after Todd's MRI on Monday. If so we'll go directly to LA and fly out in the morning!!! Pray that everything is healing and we get a clear green light from the Doc!!!

Isabella

is seven. Weird, huh!? We had a bowling party yesterday, where my friend Yvette helped out. Todd stayed home and prepared the deLICious corn dog feast for the kids. They blew in like a tornado and it may have been a bit much, but Bella had a good time and we made it through! Seven years old. Pretty cool!!

PS- like her new sewing machine? :)

yes, I am a genius

Gen-ius, I tell you. Replacing the blinky light with a non-blinky light. Now the whole tree is lit again! I can't believe you didn't think of it!!

And here is what we've been working on.....



Snowflakes! I got this great idea....adapted from one in Living. We're making paper snowflakes and putting them on a stand of lights I hung across the living room....I wasn't thinking, though when I bought the 100 light set. Oh, wait, I realize....that means we need to make 100 snowflakes!???! Uh.....hmm.....oh....well......we'll be workin'!!

I am so excited and inspired to craft. I found some great new sites with amazing ideas that I am ready to try!! Don't be surprised if you get some cute and really fun handcrafted items for Christmas this year!

And the girls were pretending they were Santa Claus in the bath tonight. They called me in almost every 10 seconds to show me a new look. SO cute.

on childhood dreams and christmas lights...

At bible study this morning I had a nice time with the ladies- we talked about changing the world and childhood dreams...so interesting to remember the things we hoped for when the whole world was open to us, when there was nothing to hinder our wild imaginations.

And the lights on the top half of our little fake tree have decided to call it quits. Wonderful!! And I am not quite sure if I mind enough to fix it. Somehow removing all of the many ornaments and candy canes the girls piled on....not to mention the garland and ribbon doesn't sound all that important. At least the blinky ones still work, I tell myself. Every few seconds the top is lit....and during the day you don't even really notice it!! If we keep the blind half way down, it will be just fine....maybe. :)

Abigail the photographer.

To everybody who is checking on us, we are all doing well. Todd is back at work, a little tried, but doing well.

I was going to give you a recount of the past.....few weeks. I tried, but I just can't go there. At least not yet...not on the blog. So, instead I will do the cheater post....yes, pictures! (I know you like these the best, anyway!!) Love you!!

Abigail has taken possession of the camera- so here are a ton of pics from her perspective!!