Decorating the Tree

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We watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (it's tradition) the night we picked out our Christmas tree. We put the tree in a big bucket of water while we waited for the branches to drop so we could put it in the stand. The very next day we were ready!

The "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" movie was on and we drank egg nog. And we waited.....

Our tree is the most perfect tree you have ever seen! We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year was playing and we watched as daddy finally put the lights on the tree! Girlie and Nick could hardly wait to start decorating from the two big boxes of ornaments. It's fun to reminisce about ornaments and everyone had a comment or favorite memory about each ornament and what year they got it and how special it was to each one of them.

(Double click on the play button to watch the video!)

"Let me tell you a little story about Frosty the Snowman." Girlie and Nick love listening to Burl Ives tell that story and we all sang as we decorated our tree. Now we're waiting for the big man to arrive to fill our stockings and bring us that special gift that we asked for.

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From our Halloween Journal

These are the pumpkins of Girlie and Nick!
We had fun making them scary this year.

My eyes! Not my eyes!

Now I'm just an empty head with no eyes and no way to see the night!
If only I had a candle!

Oh, no! Not my other eye, too!
I'm spilling my guts...please, not my eye!

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The New House

Journal from October 31st, 2009;

The beach house, finally ready to move in!


Complete with a reading room!

Girlie & Nick love the new porch.

We celebrated halloween on Saturday night by going to the Halloween Party at the park in Folly Beach. We had a great time and the kiddies came home with bags of goodies. There were hot dogs and popcorn for everyone! Lots of games and scary skeletons.

Mr. Bones joined in the celebration.

Nick won a prize for Original Costume and Girlie won for the Cutest Costume. They were so proud. Nana, Girlie and Nick won 3 cakes at the cake walk!!! Just what we needed, more sugar! Aunt Ma came to visit us and joined in the celebration. We had a lot of fun and were the last ones to leave the party!!! We're already talking about how much fun we're going to have again next year!

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South Carolina is Calling Me

View from the pier at Folly Beach, SC
Deb and Steve were chilling out!

My grandchildren are waiting for Nana to come to visit them! I'm packing my suitcase and taking lots of art supplies! They want to know what project I'm bringing for us to make. Ya gotta love it!

Girlie loves watermelon while watching the 4th of July parade!

Nick finally lost his front tooth a couple of weeks ago.
Time for the tooth fairy!

Girlie's new shoes and pony tails! "She's all that and a bag of chips!"

Nick's last day of school picture before summer vacation.
Mommy, Nana and Girlie went to the party!

I'm planning on flying in next week in time for Nick's first day of school. He's going into second grade. And for Girlie's first day of Pre-School! She's getting to be a big girl! Every day she asks if she goes to school today. She's so excited!

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