Friday, January 12, 2007

Glimpse of Movie Night

Cy got up to run to the kitchen, he came back and Stacia had taken his place, his pillow, and his blanket. She was pretending to sleep.

A Rare Sight in TX

Gray skies, rain and a rainbow...Arielle spotted it first from her bedroom window. It doesn't show up real well, but it IS a highlight of our day. Freezing rain expected tomorrow...guess I WON'T go shopping. LOL

Nativities

Each year I leave a nativity out. I had a hard time choosing this year, but Jamin chose for me.

This is the one I'll leave out. The characters remind us of one of the spirits of Christmas in the Muppet Christmas Carol. ::snort:: It will do since the Willow Tree Nativity has not materiliazed....thinking I'll by that piece at a time until I have it all next year... (Need to get a photo of it....won't load this one)

The nativity Mom gave us for our first Christmas years ago.


Krista made this one (from slip up)...note the igloo....it doesn't show up well...she made moose and seals....and Eskimos for wise men...cute.
Arielle made this one

Bre gave me this one


Bre and Krista gave me this one (I left it out last year)


I bought this one at Hobby Lobby....each figurine has a verse written on it


Main nativity


Fisher Price Nativity


Ch. S and Carol, wing chaplain at EAFB gave this to us


Arielle made this one
I poured this one and made it one AK winter...

Gift from Elmendorf Friend
*Since photos are loading and I can do this while watching movies (up and down so I don't fall asleep.....I'll post these now).

Produce....

SISTERS


The Climber

There seems to be no end to the heights this one will climb...she's FAST. She was going for the cups....


and is thrilled with the trick!

FANTASTIC FRIDAY

~No school today – by plan. We did have speech. Zander came with us today. He enjoys going out with Nolan and I, though he is never happy when Nolan goes back with Miss Natalie.

~Produce co-op today. One of our members had added up the produce she received last week, shopped the ads and local stores and calculated that the same amount would have cost her twice the money on the economy. That was nice to hear. I don’t see how we can loose since he always gives us a 25% case discount AND throws in free stuff too. {G} I, personally, was relieved to hear this because we have YET to eat all the cauliflower and celery. ::snort:: I really felt that celery had NO nutritional value. Yes, I KNOW it burns more calories than it takes….but WHY would you care or want to eat it? Consider with me all the ways a person could burn the same calories that would be MORE enjoyable. Ah well….Adrienne told me today that they are “have calcium”. Since I don’t drink milk there is some merit in this. I’ll have to do some more research though to check out how MUCH calcium – trace amounts will not impress me…I can eat milk chocolate and get trace amounts of calcium. ::snort::

~I went to visit Heather, my favorite stylist at Trendsetters. I’m now touched up, waxed and ready to go for another 6 weeks. ::snort::

~I am really enjoying Jamin’s book. I did have some questions about commas and punctuations. I couldn’t find the exact answer to my question. Tricia suggested I check out a book and find the same sort of thing in it. Good idea!

~I watched the pilot of Northern Exposure. Yeah, not one for the children…..but watching the moose, seeing the scenery, hearing “ninilchik”….ah…my touch of AK.

~Pizza and now time for family movies. I’m not sure what is up. I ordered some old Flinstones because Arielle was curious…and I think we have Over the Hedge….

~Ah – this won’t matter to any of YOU but I finally admitted that my computer woes are not transitory and have begun typing blog entries in word on THIS computer….