Merry Christmas!

Here we we are christmas ever trying to get our traditional Christmas eve jammie shot.

Just not

to happen.

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas eve!!

We are being busy elves at our house wrapping baking sing and having fun!

We will soon be filling these tins with Christmas splendor for our friends and neighbors.

Hope you all have a merry Christmas!

To die for pecan pie!

I never made a pecan pie until Thanksgiving.

I was surprised at how easy it was.

This pecan pie recipe is the best I have ever eaten.

I may not have ever made pecan pie  until recently but I have eaten my fill.

Ingredients

One pie crust unbaked bought or made

1 cup of white sugar

3 table spoons of brown sugar

1/2 teas spoon of salt

1 cup of corn syrup

1 tea spoon of vanilla

1/3 of a cup of salted butter

3 whole eggs beaten

1 cup of chopped pecans

Heat oven to 350

Beat the eggs in a mixing bowl then add every thing but the pecans.

Mix every thing thoroughly.

pour pecans in unbaked pie shell then add the mixture.

Now that every thing is in the pie shell, put tin foil around the pie shell.

bake for 30 minuets.

Remove tin foil and bake 20 more minuets.

It should be perfect if it is too wobbly bake 10 more minuets.

Let cool 30 minuets then enjoy!

4 days until Christmas and I am not ready..

My house is ready for Christmas my Christmas eve and Christmas diner foods are bought.

My out of town gifts are bought, all the thing I made are wrapped.

But Santa gifts are no where in sight..

In the 20 years of being a mom this is the first time I have been this far behind.

Lets hope I get it together in the next 3 days.

So how is your Christmas making / shopping going.

Lunar Eclipse winter 2010

This has been so much fun watching the lunar eclipse.

You would think it was Christmas as excited as my kids were.

We had fun drinking hot cocoa and watching the moon slowly disappear and then turn red.

I wish I would have thought to have gotten my tripod set up , so I could have gotten better pix.

So did you all watch the lunar eclipse?

House showings!!

Yay The day has finally come we had our first showing today.

I have no clue how it went, but tomorrow we have another one..

I really feel good about this.

Hopefully the potential buyers will like our lovely home.

This is what you see when you walk in hopefully they felt welcome.

Here is what you see when you get up the stairs.

My living room..

Don't we have the best mountain view one my neighbors envy..

Our ding room.

Our family room with projection screen.

Not sure why the wall looks funky.

Tomorrow I will show you our bedrooms..

Please keep us in your prayers that we sell soon..

Knee sock sort of day..

The winds are blowing and howling.

My house feels like it is going to fall down at any moment and the windows sound like they are going to pop into tiny pieces.

We are on alert for high winds 75 miles and hour and hopefully by tomorrow we will be down to a mere 55 miles and hour.

I definitely think it is a soup night..

Happy 5th Birthday William

Happy Birthday Sweet baby boy!

I love you and wish with all my heart you were here so I could give you love and kisses.

We all love you so much!

The Nativity

My room has always been called the simple Elegance room.

My rooms are always simple ( not) but very elegant.

This year I went with a black and white theme.

I used black wrapping paper as wall paper.

I made a white and black dropped ceiling with fabrics left over from Kadies wedding and added black glittered snowflakes.

One corner of my room.

Another corner

Sister Smith and Sister Grover in there country store room and Tami hanging out.

My friends Marty's room, bless her heart her daughter was medevaced to the mayo clinic opening day.

I love this room. She really knows how to touch ones hart.

Tami and I in front of the beautiful quilts We don't look so beautiful, And look at little Arvie sneaking in to the shot.

Last but not least Kadie and Dan game me this memorial angel for William..

I was very touched and put it on the tree. Every year decorate the nativity room for William for his birthday gift..

I cant believe that tomorrow will be his 5th birthday.

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Quick photo shoot.

This last week has been so filled with work fun and good friends..

I mentioned in earlier post that I was decorating a room at church for our towns Christmas celebration.

Well my poor family has not seen me until today.

We were driving home from church and it was just so beautiful out that I told every one we had to have a photo shoot.

We quickly changed and went out side.

Here is our first shot not bad.

This is how we really are.

The girls

The boys

The parents.

My favorite

I also loved this test shot and how we are all looking down.

By the way it is a warm 4 degrees out today.

I loved how all the pix turned out..

Tomorrow I will share pix of the Nativity..

The Nativity!

Every year at this time our little town turns magical.

Shops turn into wonderlands.

You will see candy cane and Christmas trees on light poles.

You will see carolers out and about.

You can take a ride from the big city into our little town while eating breakfast with Santa.

We call it Colony Christmas.

The best part of this celebration is what happens at the local LDS church on Arctic.

Many helping hands spend 5 days turning the church in to the most amazing sight.

Rooms transform into winter wonderland, international delights, country stores, celestial peace, and some rooms are just simply elegant.

In these room you will see the most beautiful Nativities, there is about 1,200.

You will be entertained by the Valley's best performers and blessed to see the little children reenact the Nativity.

It truly is amazing.

It brings the Christmas spirit like nothing else can.

If you are a local it is a must see.

Here are post and pictures form years past.

Nativity

For the past 3 years I have decorated a room for William for his birthday.

It is a way for me to give him a gift and serve the community.

But selfishly it gives me so much joy and pleasure.

This will be my last year and I am so sad.

I think it is the hardest part of leaving.

I decided to really make my room fun and super elegant this year.

What is more elegant than Black and white.

My walls will be papered in black and white damask and my ceiling will be white with black glittery snowflakes.

I will have splashes of red and gold.

I totally cant wait to see my vision work.

Needless to say I will be a busy bee this week.

Jenn Sue the Christmas elf..

Everyday for the last 3 weeks or so I have been working on secret projects for my kids for Christmas.

When they leave from school i sneak them out and work on the until they come home.

Then I quickly hide them until they are sleeping.

It really has been fun being sneaky like this.

Years a go I use to make all my kids Christmas gifts mostly because I had to because money was tight.

I never really enjoyed doing it because there were so many shiny gifts I wanted for my kids in the store.

I always felt cheap giving home made gifts to my kids it made me feel poor.

This year I am doing it because I want to bring the love of an old fashion Christmas to my kids, gifts from the heart.

I have warned them all that I am making every thing this year.

I thought I would hear alot of moans and groans instead I got homemade wish list from my kids.

I was shocked but very pleased that they are fine with this homemade Christmas idea.

My kids are so good and loving and thoughtful, why on earth would I have ever thought they would have a problem.

It made me realize that I am the one that had the problem not them.

It's weird that I would have issues giving homemade gifts because I love receiving them.

I just glad that I am doing it this year and that I am having fun with it.

Making all these gifts is really getting me into the Christmas spirit.

Here is a sneak peek of what I am making today.

I am making 3 different type of scarfs and ear warmers.

They are all turning out so cute.

 I will share more later.

So what are you all working on anything fun and ideas you want to share.

I am always looking for new ideas.



A lot to think about..

There is a strong possibility that we are staying in Alaska.

I can't share details just yet but should know in a few days or so.

I was shocked with my self that I was not super upset and that I did not scream there is no way we are staying.

In fact a calmness came over me and the high anxiety I have been filling  lately was eased a little.

I don't know if this is because we are still supposed to move and this was my comfort  or if it was because we are supposed to stay and this was conformation.

I really still want to move but for the most part they are selfish reasons.

I kinda want to stay now and they are selfish reasons too mainly because my two oldest girls are staying and in the next few years I will be a grandma and I want to be around for that.

Plus my kids love it here and the schools are amazing.

So we will see.

I hate limbo land.

For now we will continue to pray to see for guidance...



Meeting a bloggy friend..

Monday I had a special visitor Miss Jeanie from California.

Miss Jeanie and I met through the flirty apron swap.

We both have been swapping aprons for the last 2 years.

In November we both got our swap partners name that were chosen by a random number generator, Jeanie just happen to get me.

The cool part is that Jeanie was coming to Alaska for Thanksgiving.

Jeanie decided to tell me instead of keeping it a secret and asked if we wanted to meet.

I jumped at the chance of meeting a bloggy friend.

We met at my house and she brought me the most amazing apron and tons of little goodies.

I love this apron!

Jeanie and I had the best time it was like we had always known each other.

Thank you for a good time Jeanie and for all the lovely gifts.

So who else wants to meet me?