WB Christmas Party 2016

Look at this fun group that I get to work with everyday.

WB is a big part of each of our lives, we are lucky with this crew.

We had a very fun evening at the big WB Christmas party this year.

This was the first party that Blake had to miss,

 so we sent her this pic of her favorite OLD work besties.

These two young ones provided our table some comic relief for the night.

Who knows, I tell you, with this group - always up for a joke/laugh.

We look forward the the WB party every year - I enjoy seeing folks that I have worked with 

for over 15 years.  I've known some that long and then it grows every year, too -

 that is fun to watch as well. The food was good this year but the people even better.

With Sara and JD

And my favorite Hanna (I don't think I could survive without our venting/uplifting sessions)

and Miss Lei - who is ALMOST ready to rock this pharmacy school gig!

Full and Blessed.

There is so much truth in this.

I am careful saying that we are too busy for that

or the weekend was busy.

I try to use full.  Full seems much more charming and blessed than busy!

I got to spend a whole 1/2 day with Morgan!

She is having fun with a cricut she borrowed.

It's really neat.

She is making holidays blocks with it right now.

And we drove over to the new trailer in place on their land.

Looks great, needs a little TLC that she and Ethan are willing to provide.

And this view from her kitchen window - swoon,

right over the pond.

I made cube steak, mash potatoes and corn one day last week.

Carb o heaven, but it tasted delicious!

Sam and I have been reading this chapter book together.  It has been such a 

giant blessing and interrupted time each evening.

And the tooth fairy stopped by because Sam lost 2 teeth in one week.
He placed the the teeth under his pillow trusting the tooth fairy would magically stop by.
We've long since stopped believing in Santa or the Easter Bunny so this surprised me.

And when he woke up,

he said...thanks for the money mom.

Stinker.

Sunday Slowdown

All my pictures lately are on Sundays.

Sundays are full and blessed and are some weeks are our slow down, recharge time.

These 5th graders are my favorite right now.  They are funny and participate 

(as much as most 11 year olds will) 

 they are kind to one another, and are learning the word of God together (often times me,too).

We did a nickel drop demo on a lesson with God doing the Impossible for us.

We also are working on some snowflake decorations for the room.

We came home a tried out some pics for our Christmas card.

They were a flop for the card, but we laughed a giggled and I love

some of the genuine expressions I captured with the ol IPHONE

(notice spit from Joe's mouth, eeeeewwww)

Just keeping it real, some were more charming than this...I'll post them soon.

We snuggled in for an afternoon at home.

Joe and I made cinnamon ornaments at home.

Loving doing this, love the smell of our home afterward.

Love that we are creating Christmas season memories 

to last a lifetime.

They dried a few days a we hung them on the tree with care!

There are been a balloon around our house for a few weeks (from a Sunday school lesson)

and we have enjoyed endless moments punching it around, timing how long we can keep it in the air,

playing volleyball and just laughing at each others antics.

The BB gun came out again for an afternoon of target practice.

DH hit one of the cups....look at Joe's reaction.

The kitty (Junior Number 2) and I just snuggled and watched.

Clipped some evergreen from the back yard and holly sprigs from front yard, 

love this time of year.

Checking out our hits on the target.

We went to hanging of the greens with the Walkers at the Methodist Church.

It was so pretty, Blake and Ricki had a speaking part so glad we were there

(not sure why I don't have pictures, probably because it was church)

And we ended at our friends' home just hanging out watching football

and hashing out the latest fantasy football trades.

They have a new dog and Joe was scared silly of it.

The tiny thing barked like a giant bulldog, we laughed at Joe

as he eased into the dog being there.

Look at him laughing at himself, bless his heart.  He tried,

but the dog would tear into him as soon as he relaxed a little.

Finally, everyone got used to one another - we laughed all the while.