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We’ve hit the Christmas season running. This week was the most intense of the season and it’s kind of nice to have it behind us now. We’ve had a lot of fun, but I’d rather have it all start hitting earlier in the month so we can have our own time later in the month.

I’ve been forgetting to get my camera out lately but when I plugged my camera into my mac, I found a few things we’ve been up to.

It seems like weeks ago, but we had a new member’s class at church that we had to be at. The little girlie had to be there too and I amused myself taking pictures of her….

That’s the sweater I made her for her birthday.

She’s learning to whistle.

I’ll have to catch her winking so I can show you.

Don’t get me wrong, the lunch was fun. I did take Tyler home after we ate. With our new life of not having siblings at home, he has had to sit through his share of events and I won’t ask the others to take him any more than I’ve already been doing, they need their Sunday family times. I won’t make him do too many things that are very boring to him.

Oh gosh, that reminds me of the latest Tyler escapade. Kenny often gives him the job of putting his guitars away after church. He takes them to Kenny’s office. Kenny had given him a key last week but forgot to tell him to use the key next to it to open the main office door.

I was visiting with some friends and one of the kids who works at the church came to tell me what he’d caught Tyler doing. Evidently, he couldn’t get the main door open and he was on a mission….his dad asked him to do something and do it he would.

When Adam came around the corner, he saw 2 feet sticking out of the reception window! Somehow that kid had climbed up (picture a doctor’s office window…) and had started climbing through but when he was quit a way in, he realized it wasn’t a great idea. I’m convinced Tyler would have fallen off the desk head first onto the floor and it’s still giving me a bit of a nightmare! Adam pulled him back through and unlocked the door for him. I’m trying not to wonder who else had to have seen that and did nothing, that was quite a bit of maneuvering to get that far! lol

For Thanksgiving, we did a big breakfast with our extended family. I did not get one decent picture, but I’ll show you some anyway.

She had on a little bubble skirt and ballet-wrap sweater….it was so cute and something tells me she knew it.

She loves to give her new little baby loves.

Yep, we’re not too far off from having two little sweet peas!

Friday we had the most fun Christmas dinner to go to. The church staff and council had a wonderful feast at our pastor’s house. I wish I’d gotten pictures. They had tables set up in 3 rooms, can you imagine having enough dishes to feed a crowd and they all match? We sat in the room with french doors overlooking the water. It was dark out but you could occasionally see reflections off the water….so peaceful.

We played that crazy white elephant game and laughed more than I can remember ever doing at one of those gatherings. Kenny and I both got very decent gifts. I got a Food Network cookbook, a food chopper and some yummy chocolate. Kenny got some really pretty Christmas mugs. I’m kind of picky about things like that and I like them. They had the button-hole edge painted on them and Merry Christmas each in one of 4 different languages. I rarely like words on a mug so it’s pretty fun to get something I like. Others were fortunate to get things like gold lame’ leggings, an underwear repair kit (hysterical) and giant remote control for elderly hard-of-seeing people.

Today at church we had a potluck and each person was asked to bring an ornament to express themselves….or something we liked. I got a really cute vintage Christmas tree for mine, but I really wanted it for myself so I stayed up late last night finishing one so I could keep the one I bought!

Super cute and easy pattern….it has a pipe-cleaner in the hat.

It’s made to sit on a shelf or something, but I put a hanger on it. I’d make one for Mayah but would definitely leave out the pipe cleaner.

We’ll see, though. I haven’t been having a lot of knitting time.

It happens to be sitting on Tyler’s Christmas gift. I have NEVER put out gifts early because he’s been guilty of opening them in the past, whether they are his or not. It’s fun that he gets it now and he doesn’t even pick it up, although he has slid it out a little bit and moved it back and forth. I feel like his gift is more a gift to me, but he’s going to love it!

This coming weekend, we’re having our annual Christmas luncheon and I’m co-hosting one of the tables. Most tables hold 6 but we’ll have 7 at ours. I’m excited because both of my girls will be sitting with us.

I will definitely bring my camera to that!

I really am trying to get back to blogging but I’ve been busy and tired and somewhat bored. (you know how those busy times are where you feel like you just need to be pointed in the direction you need to go and you just go?….that’s how I’ve felt!)

Hope to see you soon!

Tags: Christmas, knitting, mayah

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