Since it has been a little longer than I anticipated since the last post I will try to do a quick catch-up. I have been busy getting ready for the many Christmases that we have this year and also trying my hand at deer hunting. I decided to give it a try again this year since I hit one with my car earlier this fall. However, I decided I am a fair-weather hunter and not that interested in sitting in a blind at 6:00 in the morning with 15 degree weather... Now, the first day I went out it was 40-ish and I really enjoyed the peacefulness of the morning and had some quiet time with God. I never did see anything. But I still enjoyed it. Not so much after that...
My wonderful hubby trying to make me as comfortable as possible so that I would WANT to continue to deer hunt. It really couldn't have been any easier of a hunt. I walked outside about 100 yards and climbed up in the hay blind. I didn't have to climb any trees or walk down in the woods or anything like that.
I had my friend Lilah over to help me with some Christmas baking one Saturday. Then we did some crafts together.
Being silly with Aunt Jannette
We made this book about her family.
She wanted a list of questions to ask each of her family members (the same list I used for the other books I made) and then we cut out some shapes with my Cameo that she colored. This one is for her mom and she is helping her mom clean.
I got my Christmas decorations up before we had the church over to wrap gifts for the Hartford Training Center.
The fireplace.
The sign I designed and made. I had an old vintage coffee sign that I got at a flea market and never used, so I painted it and cut out the vinyl lettering to put on there.
I just loved these sparkly brown deer to go with my neutral/rustic theme
I looked all over for wreaths to hang in my windows. Since I needed 14 of them, I decided it was way too expensive to buy that many wreaths and instead bought a plain garland. I cut the garland up and put the berries in. I got 3 wreaths out of one garland, so it saved quite a bit of money. Then I just hung them with burlap ribbon.
Don't mind the plastic wrap that is sitting under the window sill :)
I put the Willow Tree Nativity set on the piano this year with lights under the snow. Jacob built me the stable one year for Christmas out of our old barn wood. I got around to staining it this year.
All the gifts we had to wrap Friday night. We (Kent, Marissa, & I) shopped for 77 residents of the Hartford Training Center and then the church came over and we wrapped and tagged everything. The kids always have so much fun with this!
On Saturday, Marissa had the ladies and their daughters over for a Christmas brunch. It was delicious and so enjoyable to spend time together!
These glasses out of the toy box were a huge hit!
Then we made cookie jars. We cut out circles of fabric to go over the top of the lids to make them festive!
Teagan trying to hide behind the counter so I don't get her in the picture of ingredients.
The finished product. These are always so fun to make and give as gifts or even have on hand when you need a quick snack to take somewhere.
This week I am focusing on getting everything ready for our Christmas open house at the bank... so stay tuned!
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