Sweet Home New Mexico: The Christmas Round-Up

Favorite Quotes

"Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He will deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, raise up friends, and pour out peace. Whoever will lose his life in the service of God will find eternal life."
"Follow your bliss." Joseph Campbell
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." Robert Frost
"The Lord will bless us and watch over us, sometimes dramatically. At other times, He will leave us to cope with the challenge rather than removing or diverting the challenge. He will not let us be tried beyond that which we can bear, but He will chose to push us at times. We can expect to be tested." Spencer W. Kimball
"Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?" Christoper Marlowe
"If a June night could talk, it would boast that it invented romance." Bern Williams
"Children are made readers in the laps of their parents." Emilie Burchwald
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation stand still."
"The secret of happiness consists not of having, but of being, not of possessing, but enjoying. It is a warm glow of the heart that is at peace with itself." David O. McKay
"The Lord is not interested in our abilites or inabilities as much as He is interested in our availability. If we show him our dependability, he will take care of our capability." Spencer W. Kimball
"Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised." Neal A. Maxwell
"Among the greatest blessings in life is to be safe with someone." Hugh B. Brown
"The greatest battles of life are fought out daily in the silent chambers of the soul." David O. McKay
"In order to exercise your faith, do something every day that scares you to death." Mary Ellen Edmonds
"Work like the devil; he's such a good example." Marion G. Romney

Friday, December 30, 2011

The Christmas Round-Up

Our gingerbread house tradition. Sara Katherine clearly loves it because it involves eating some of the decorations!

Cutting out Gingerbread cookies with Grandma.

Cutting out and decorating sugar cookies. (No shortage of cookies around here...)

Treats ready to be delivered!

We made reindeer rootbeer for our neighbors!

Ethan tracking Santa (on the kitchen counter top?) Christmas Eve on the Norad website.

Stockings!

After Santa came!

Santa's thank-you note for his cookies, because that is good manners ya know!

The aftermath. We just did stockings and a few presents, then went to church, then came home to finish presents.

Lunch after church! Festive!

This was the first year our Elf on the Shelf came to stay with us. The kids named him Elfie Theodore. I can already tell this is going to be one our favorite Christmas traditions. The kids had SO much fun looking to see where he would move to each morning. He came to watch the kids open presents on Christmas morning then went back to the North Pole Christmas night! So fun!

We took the kids to the Kid's Science Museum in Lubbock one day...so fun!

She insisted David take her training wheels off her bike and she rode it by herself!

Her play-dough creation.

1 comments:

Alicia said...: Honestly Jeni, you have BEAUTIFUL children. They have the cutest little faces. Can't wait for them to be BFFs when you get here. I loved your reindeer rootbeer idea. So cute. And I loved seeing your note from Santa reminding the kids why we give gifts. What a good mamma.; January 13, 2012 7:05 PM