Ketchup !!!WARNING 44 Pictures!!!
Yes, the title was meant to be what it is. :-) It was like, hey, I love ketchup.. and it sounds the same as catch-up, so, why not? Call me crazy if you like. This blog post will be going on both my blogs... On one blog, I haven't updated since September, and on the other, I haven't given a decent update since November! So, here is a decent update.. or ketchup. What I'll do is post pictures, and then say anything related to them... even though several will be quite random.
October
Early October us girls made hamburger buns! They were so good! Looking at this picture makes me hungry. :-P
Me doing a photoshoot of Elle the Adorable. Abby is the in the background, and so is Duke
Excited about something!
Smile!
Rolls I made for Ben's birthday dinner on the 5th. Yum! I can almost smell them.
Making rolls... No, I am not mad, just concentrating... though it could have been very possible that I was bearing hard feelings towards the photographer (Joe) for stealing some!
Ben and his cake. Guess how old!
We went gleaning potatoes and grapes with Mrs. H1. It was a lot of fun!
Katie H2. and Anne.. they look like they're dualing! We went to the H2's house for dinner.. I think this was because it had snowed too much to go on with our plans to go shooting that day with the H2's, so we went over for dinner.
We all got a laugh off of this sign on the way home from the H2's house.... ONE of the local caSINo's.
Snow!
Who is THAT!
Yay! Finally we got to go shooting! Snow melted. :-) Me and my Savage... NO, I am not shooting Kate!
The staggered line to the targets.
Katie H2 shooting Joe's .270
Mrs. H2 gave us this project. :-)
Another time shooting. Emily and AR-15. After shooting it, you can't help but go away grinning. :-D
Eric and SKS
Late October we went hunting.. you can read about it HERE.
November
Traditional dinner for when we butcher deer. I shall spare you the details of the butchering process. :-)
I certainly don't remember this picture being taken!
Anne teaching Elle to do... um.. as you see above.
Kate and Elle
Wrapping Eric's birthday dinner... Eggrolls!!!!!
The birthday boy. No, he is not sleeping, just blinking... and I posted this picture for lack of better picture. Just after this picture was taken, the battery ran out.
Elle wearing the dress Emily wore to a friend's wedding in '99, I think.
December
At my party, the girls and the little people made graham cracker houses. There was more girls/little people than shown in this picture. :-P
Waiting to open presents.
Mr. and Mrs. H1
Cake!
A few minutes after blowing some gunpowder, the boys are looking at the cross that Joe put up on top the house. Obviously, it was cold!
I had a lot of fun at my party. :-D I did the decorating and made the cake. We had 16 guests, then add our 14... The guests arrived at 12:30 PM and left at 5:30 PM! Guests brought finger foods.
Practice just before the Messiah Festival. A few days later, there was a story in the paper about the Messiah, and Tess was in the picture!
After the Messiah! Us girls with Katie H2.
Mr. and Mrs. H2. after the Messiah. Neither of them sang in it.
The hat and scarf that my friend, Britta, gave me for my birthday!
Presenting.... Mr. and Mrs. M with their armless daughter! Anne, Elle, and I.
I look like I'm falling asleep...
Acting like a punk. No, I did not dye my hair!
Emily and Jay working on Aunt Barbara's Mexican Wedding Cakes for giving to the neighbors.
Yum! Now to wrap 'em up, knock on neighbor's doors, carol for them, than give 'em these! For the recipes, go HERE.
Anne's birthday dinner of sushi, with cooked fish. Yum!
Birthday girl with her pies. Nmmmm...
Girls from Peru, and Anne.. Ada, Elibeth, Anne, and Gledy. Ada and Elibeth are sisters, and Gledy goes to school with Elibeth.
I really like this picture of Anne. :-D
Now, I'll scare you off with this picture!
This update was only up until December 18th.
~Elizabeth~
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Hello! Merry CHRISTmas! Happy New year! Wow. 2009 is officially here! 2008 zipped by fast!
Growing in Grace's January 2009 issue is here! And, what came along with it was a giveaway! (I just love giveaways!)
Here is the link, Growing in Grace giveaway
Heres is what you are entering for,
1- The Braille Alphabet and Number Card
2- Mrs. R.'s name sheet in Braille for an example
3- A Blank Worksheet to practice on
4- The Braille Alphabet Sheet
5- A Blank Braille Alphabet sheet to practice on.
6- And a Message sheet that Mrs. R. wrote for you to decipher along with a sheet you can write your own message on.
7- And a special message from Miss Jessica just for the readers of GGM!
(and you may make copies of these for your siblings to practice too.)
Here is how you enter.
1. Subscribe to Growing in Grace Magazine and forward your subscription confirmation email to: ggmads@gmail.com (how you subscribe, is go to the GGM's website, and on the right hand side bar is a thing that you put your email address in)
2. Leave a comment for Mrs. R. in the comment box below. (on the GGM's website)
3. Post about this giveaway on your blog and leave GGM the link.
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Hi, whoever is reading this! :P
To start with, around a week ago, we made cookies and things like that, and went caroling for friends and neighbors. I think they all liked it. ;)
It has been soooooooooooooooooooooooo cold here! It was around -20º, but right now it is just 3º.
Yesterday, I came in from feeding the Guineas, and said, “Its pretty warm out!” Mom said it was 20º. The little kids wanted to go outside because it was “warm” out there. LOL! It was pretty (errrr… VERY) warm compared to a few days ago!
I am going to have a giveaway on here, but the only problem is that I can’t think of any creative ideas to do for it. Do you have any ideas? If so, please leave a comment! :D
In the next post, I will post about the giveaway officially.
Well, that’s about it! :D
Sorry I didn't get around to posting, I had wrote up a huge entry and it got erased. :-( I will do my best to copy it. ;-)
We had Anne's birthday dinner of Sushie on Saturday... It was awesome!!! We had lots of left overs. (BTW, we used cooked fish instead of the traditional raw fish)
Trays and Trays of Sushie... I can almost taste it!
Also we maked a lot of cookies for neighbors and some friends, It was a lot of fun. When we distrubuted(sp? the cookies we caroled for the neighbors/friends.
in the picture are: Molasses cookies, Chocolate covered pretzels, Mexican wedding cakes, Peanut butter cookies with kisses in middle, Martha Washington Bon bons, Chai tea mix, and Peppermint bark.
Our Guinea baby's are getting soo big! Here is a picture...
The two that are looking at the camera are grown ups. The rest are baby's. :-D We ended up with twelve Guinea fowl this summer.
Emily
I was tagged! :D
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Both
2. Real or fake tree? Real!
3. When do you put up a tree? Usually near the start of December. (but this year we don't have a real Christmas tree. We use our fake tree that has leaves, not needles)
4. When do you take it down? Usually on Jan. 1st
5. Do you like eggnog? Yes!!!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? I love everything that is gave to me.
7. Hardest person to buy for? We make our presents for each other. But the hardest person has to be Beth. Or Mom.
8. Easiest person to buy for? The big boys
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Lots!
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Why would I not like any gift?
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? --
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? We start making presents when it snows usually in October.
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? No
15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas? The spinich dip!
16. Lights on the tree? Yep!
17. Favourite Christmas song? I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Stay home
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Noo........
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? We have an angel on top on the stairs post.
21. Open presents on Christmas Eve or morning? I think we open them on either Christmas Eve night, or Christmas morning/night. I don't remember.
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? --
23. Favourite Ornament theme or color? My favorite ornament on mine is a Snoopy one that I got from Gramma.
24. Favourite for Christmas dinner? Ok, I'm weird, but I don't like what we have for dinner. I only like the spinich dip. We have reubin sandwiches, 'lil smokey's, faundu, and things like that.
25. Favourite Decorations? Lights
26. What do you want for Christmas this year? I'd rather give presents than take them.
There! :D
The Simple Woman's Daybook, Page 3
My Cousin, Adrianna, on her 3rd birthday(Aug. '08). She had put an old pair of Memaw's sunglasses on. She kept saying "Hey, Dude!", it was pretty funny. =]]
One of my friends from Blessed Maidens, Elise, tagged me!
Welcome to the Christmas edition of getting to know your family and friends.
Okay, here's what you're supposed to do, and try not to be a SCROOGE!!!
Change all the answers so that they apply to you.
Then tag a whole bunch of people you know. Tis the Season to be NICE!
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Wrapping paper, totally!
2. Real or fake tree? Real! I love the smell. :D
3. When do you put up a tree? We haven't had a tree for sometime.. when we did get a tree, it would usually be around in the second week of December.
4. When do you take it down? Before January 1st.
5. Do you like eggnog? Yes!
6. Favorite gift received as a child? My bible I received when I was six.
7. Hardest person to buy for? We don't buy presents much, unless Dad approves and you have the means, but the hardest person to make for are the three big boys.
8. Easiest person to buy for? Twins
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes, two of them! Small ones, that would go on a mantle.. or on top of a fish tank ;)
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? I like to write email, but like to receive mail. :D
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? Haven't ever had one.
12. Favorite Christmas Movie? N/A
13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? Seeing as we don't buy our presents, I'll say when I start making Christmas presents. I start making Christmas presents around the first snow... usually in October. As long as there is snow on the ground, I am enthusiastic about making Christmas presents. :D
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? As in giving it to another person the next year? No.
15. Favourite thing to eat at Christmas? Fondue
16. Lights on the tree? What would a Christmas tree be without lights?
17. Favourite Christmas song? I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day and God With Us both by Casting Crowns
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? Ever since I can remember we have stayed at home for Christmas.. though I think an older sibling told me that we used to go to the beach when we lived in OR. Fore about the first 4 years of living where we live now, our family in OR would come out to us.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer's? Nope. Never have cared. We don't do Santa.
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? An angel
21. Open presents on Christmas Eve or morning? It all depends.. We have done all of them on Christmas eve, or half of them on Christmas eve and the other half on Christmas day.. I don't think we have ever done them all on Christmas day. =P
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? Santa. He has become the focus of Christmas in most families, instead of Jesus. Santa didn't come down to earth to die for us so that we may receive salvation.
23. Favourite Ornament theme or color? We never have had a 'theme' or specific 'color' for our tree... we put homemade ornaments on, or ornaments that were given to us when we were little.
24. Favourite for Christmas dinner? Christmas Eve we have Rubin sandwiches, fondue with french bread cut into bite sized pieces, spinach dip and the french bread cut into bite sized pieces, l'l smokies, and I can't think of what else, if there is an else. Christmas day I think we usually have Ham.
25. Favourite Decorations? Lights.
26. What do you want for Christmas this year? IDK
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Now, to tag as many people as possible: Anybody to read this through!
~Elizabeth~
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Ok, so I left off with Mom and Joe being in Oregon for forever... Grandpa passed from death to life on the 17 of last month, Dad, Anne, Ben and Elle went for the Memorial service. Elle was soooo happy to see Mom, she would freak out if Mom went a little bit away from her.
So on Saturday night (at 2:30 am) They all came home!!!!!
That Sunday we celebrated Eric's 17th birthday (his birthday had been the day before) and unpacked our van from all the stuff that Gramma gave us.
Last saturday we celebrated Thanks giving (due to on thursday Dad was at work) and now, tomorrow is Beth's 15th birthday party!
As you can see, we have been very busy!
Emily
Hello!
Tomorrow is Beth's 15th birthday party! Her birthday is on the 9th, but tomorrow was the only day it would work out on.
Tonight, we are going to a Messiah practice! On Sunday is the actual and official thing. I don't know what you call it. The Handle's Messiah? I don't know. :laughs:
We have decorated the house and everything, now. And, we can listen to Christmas music!
It is like soooooooooooo cold and snowy here. The horse's water's ice was around three inches deep, yesterday. :O
There is a couple inches of snow, but today there was alot of wind, so it drifted. It melted just a bit today, too. But still, it was cold cold! Yesterday it got down to like 9º! The highest was 20º. It is cold in the house, too.
In the hallway, it is probably 50 or 60 degrees F., and then when you go into the living room, it get to around 70º, then you go downstairs, it is hot down there! Because that is where our wood stove is.
Today we were cleaning our rooms, so we were mostly in the hall place (because our rooms branch off from the hall) and so we are cold! Or at least I am! lol!
Well, I've said enough. :)
Kaitlynn
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