I love Christmas time! Here are some things that we have been up to:
Picking out a Christmas tree with the Higgins at a tree farm in Redmond.
I think it took the Higgins half the time to find the "perfect tree" that it took us (this is a very serious endeavor for me).
I think it took the Higgins half the time to find the "perfect tree" that it took us (this is a very serious endeavor for me).
Chopping down the tree with dad.
On a hayride.
Presenting- The Bredensteiner Christmas tree 2008!
Jon and I went on a double date with our good friends the Withers to a ceramic painting place. We had so much fun! We happened to come on date night so they gave us a couple of roses, some sparkling cider and a big piece of chocolate cake. Below is my creation, so cute huh (Jon's turned out great too but his is a present so I can't put a pic up)!? We had such a great time.
Of course, candycanes were there.
On a hayride.
Presenting- The Bredensteiner Christmas tree 2008!
Ta-Da!!! All decorated with a cute crooked look.
Clay and Ephraim were in a live Nativity this year that was presented at our ward Christmas party. Clay was the first innkeeper; when Mary and Joseph knocked on the door at his inn, he said, "No, this Inn is full!" He did a great job and wasn't nervous at all. Ephraim was a shepherd (Clay also joined the shepherds) and had no speaking lines, but they both sang all the songs which were so cute! At one point Ephraim had his stuffed sheep "skewered" at the end of his walking stick, roasting it over the "fire"...I'm pretty sure even if the shepherd's were hungry that they didn't do that...sigh, little boys.
"No, this Inn is full!"
My cute little shepherd.
Jon and I went on a double date with our good friends the Withers to a ceramic painting place. We had so much fun! We happened to come on date night so they gave us a couple of roses, some sparkling cider and a big piece of chocolate cake. Below is my creation, so cute huh (Jon's turned out great too but his is a present so I can't put a pic up)!? We had such a great time.
Snow is falling all around, on the housetops, on the ground, snow is falling on my nose, on my head and hands and toes!
Finally, our winter is hear. I have to say I prefer the white snowy day to the dreary rainy day! My boys have enjoyed a little bit of snow time. They love to eat the snow and today I think we will go make a snowman!
(On the negative side of snow, I wrecked my van last night! I was going down a slight incline and my van tires couldn't get traction to slow with my brakes so I slid into a huge mound of dirt and got stuck. I cracked and dented my front bumper (AGAIN!). Luckily, a lot of very nice men stopped to help. The man who finally towed my van off of the dirt with an old rope and a tow hitched to his truck, told me that he had seen me on his way home and thought, "Look some idiot got themselves stuck" and as he drove on he said God told him to come back and help that idiot, so he went home, got his tow hitch and rope and came back to help me- he said for me to thank God- so I DID!!! I'm so glad we hit a mound of dirt and not another car!)
We are headed to California for a warm Christmas with my family this weekend- we can't wait! We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Love,
The Bredensteiners
2 comments:
Bummer about your accident - glad that you're all okay.
Have a Merry Christmas!
I miss the Christmas tree farms in Washington. You don't get that here in Utah. We actually went to that farm a couple of years while we were there. I loved the wagen ride and the Hot cocoa at the end. So fun! We actually got a fack tree this year because since we have lived here we have not kept it alive because they were all chopped from Wash and brought here weeks later!
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