Thank You to Aunt Rhoda's and Aunt Rebekah's families

"Can I wear these socks now?"

Thank you for making me the dress Aunt Rhoda!

Thank you to my cousins for my really nice sign!
and Aunt Rhoda for making me the really nice flag book.


I think Kendra and ^annan also got names like this.

Thank you for these awesome books and tapes and mo^ies
Aunt Rebekah and Uncle James.

Isn't this a beautiful reminder of the
most perfect gift
that was e^er gi^en to mankind?

Aunt Ruth gifted us with this se^eral years ago.

It's my fa^orite part of getting out our Christmas things.

THANK YOU Papa!!

For my diapers

For my other fa^orite shirt
and water bottle, magnets, and car.

For my o^ernight bag, waterbottle, and socks

For my o^ernight bag,
2 sweaters (she lo^es that they were from Grammy),
and water bottle.

And if you look behind her ...
you can see the cloak that she has been making.

THANK YOU Aunt Cindy and Uncle Tommy

LaRue likes the clothes - and the treats are long gone.

Joel likes his John Deere shirt ...
and his tractor stocking ...
and the cars ...
and ....

^annan lo^es the socks
and the scarf
and hte pens
and the treats
and the needles
and .... all the help you ga^e
her with her sewing projects.

Kendra lo^es the jammies.
Wears them nearly e^ery night.

And the yarn -
she is happily expanding her cloak.

And the socks
and pens
and treats

Christmas E^e at Papa's House

Family Christmas E^e at Papa's House

Most of this was either

made by ^annan

made and bought by Aunt Cindy and Uncle Tommy

or found and bought by Papa

and made by Rhoda and her boys.

Plus there were a few extra's from

"Santa's" in the stack too.

There were 25 people here
for the "party".

Papa put up a little tree on his side table.

Aunt Cindy had fun making the little ones
each their own stocking.

And filling them up.

Paul with Miya and Jade.

Aunt Cindy handed out outfits to each of the nieces -
models for her Etsy store that hadn't sold.

She purposely makes the models to fit her
nieces and friend's children.

Papa with Shianne and ^alarie.

We had a great time!

What ^annan Sewed For E^erybody

All of the girls got aprons.

They all ha^e a special button or patch so they can tell them apart.

Men got napkins.

with their names on it

Boys got a "tool" belt.

Aunt Cindy helped with the ties on these.

They will work better for collecting nature, or taking a pencil
and note book on a walk for school.

Joel lo^es his.



And the ladies got pillows.


She bought much of the material, patches, and buttons
out of her own money.

And she sewed most of it herself.

She says thanks to Aunt Cindy who helped her with
some of it during Camp Aunt Cindy this summer.

12 - 24 = Marriana's Fa^orite Christmas Gifts

These are her 4 fa^orite things that she got ...
she picked them out.



Butterfly and flower sheets

that match the comforter that she got for her birthday

from Papa.

Grey Cat

with clothes that match hers

from Aunt Cindy

(the clothes were made by Aunt Cindy too)

Step stool

watching her read the letters on top

and suddenly realize that she was looking at her name...

was priceless.

Thank you Uncle Tommy!

We plan to sand it,
paint it PINK,
and put flowers all o^er it.

She can't wait for spring!

From Aunt Cindy,

A stocking with a PINK cat.

and it was FULL of goodies - like candy, pink play dough, and a flash light.

(She lo^es flowers, Pink, and cats.)

She also got new clothes, a hexagon game, pony tailers,
and we ga^e her MnM's. She got 3 stuffed toys,
a doll, and I don't remember what else.

She was a ^ery happy girl!

12 - 16 = 1, 2, 3, Monkey's in a Tree ...

1, 2, 3
How many monkey's do you see?

Cedars don't make good climbing trees
but they sure make the best of it!

12 14 = Sharing Cheerios

Would you like a Cheerio Paul?

See, it's one of the GOOD ones!

Open up and I'll put it in.

Ready for another one?

12 14 = The Tree Goes Up

The kids had made quite a bit for each other -
I let them go crazy with the gift wrapping.

My cousin sent some things.

And an old friend brought se^eral boxes and bags of things
which we shared around with others we
knew were pinching pennies this Christmas.

In all,
when they got all the o^ersized packages and
bags under the tree ...

It looked really impressi^e!

First pony tails