Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Happy Birthday Dad and Natalie

Happy Birthday Dad! you are the very best and I am so blessed to have you 
for my Dad I love you so very very much!

Natalie, Happpy HAPPY Birthday! I love you so so much! I hope your
day is super :). May the Lord bless you!


Love, 
Emily Ann

Saturday, December 28, 2013

Catching up!

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! I certainly did :). what did you all do? I will tell you about my day later on in another post. 
Did any of you go see the nutcracker this year? we did! it was my first time and overall I enjoyed it :). we didn't see the full ballet though just the second act. 



Every year we go to my dads parents and make ginger bread houses ( or castle, manger, train, anything really) well I guess I should say graham cracker houses because only 2 were made of ginger bread :) anyways we have done it every year for as long as I can remember and its always so neat to see how they change over the years but unfortunately only some of us were able to participate in the castle making because we had some sick ones. this year Isaiah and I teamed up and made a castle and a bridge. 

warping cardboard bases 


 of course there is always lots of candy involved 


Paul's sweet train

our castle slowly but surely coming along

 ta-da! our Christmas castle :). I didn't think we were going to be able
to finish it, my partner was pretty antsy to get it decorated before it was
done being built but we toughed it out and thanks to Marys amazing
icing it held the pieces together and we finished it! 


This is Natalie's adorable little manger..she did such a wonderful job




Here is Esther's amazing shopping mall. she even made Olaf (the little snowman from the movie Frozen)! :)

I think she had a hat, barber, and chocolate shop in her mall :)

this is Valerie's colorful creation.

 And Mary's beautiful ginger bread house 

Ok now for or pre-Christmas vacation part 1 I wanted to put all of our trip in this post but as I started uploading the pictures I was thinking nope, nope its not going to happen! because we were gone for a week so I have a looooott of pictures :) so I'll just do it in 2 parts :) we went to Alabama to visit our Uncle Denny and Aunt Betty.

ok so I went back and looked at these 2 pictures and started laughing because the first one (left) I took in the van right before we left and the second one (right) I took once we were in Alabama :) yes did I mention it was lots warmer there?!


their house is was amazingly decorated and it was beautiful!!




Natalie making garlic bread


 Meet one grandson Carson 





 Coffee 


 Mary frying beacon


 curling Mary's hair for no reason really :) we kinda ran out of things 
to do after awhile 


 We had lots of food when we were there so there was lots of cooking :)
 and Mary made Denny 16 apple pies 


 Kate and her boyfriend Micah


 Alaina and Valerie


 Meet their second grandson Knoks he is a little ball of energy 


 one of the days Betty took us for a ride through the woods 




Betty, Mary and I




Ok well I will be back with part 2 and our Christmas vacation to my moms dads :) I hope you all 
have a wonderful day! and God bless!! 
Emily Ann



Thursday, December 5, 2013

Happy Birthday Kate!

 Happy 19th Birthday Kate Lynn! I love you very much!! I hope your day is wonderfully awesome :). May the Lord bless you and may His face shine upon you.





Sunday, December 1, 2013

Thanksgiving post 2

Hi again! I hope you all had a wonderful thanksgiving, I did! it was a blessing to spend the day eating, laughing, talking, scrapbooking and watching Hallmark movies with my family. 

food lots and lots of food :)






My Grandma always makes the tables look beautiful



I couldn't get this crazy to smile :)





hungry pilgrim 





helping our cousin finish her sisters graduation album 


Ok well that is all for today. Have a great night! signing off

Emily Ann