Posted in art & crafts & home things, discipleship, Holidays, the Father's teaching on Dec 29th, 2009
Looking ahead to next year Christmas, here’s a craft project that all you moms can start on now and maybe have for advent 2010! This is the Jesse Tree, a Christmas advent calendar tracing Jesus’ earthly heritage (recorded in Matthew and Luke). From Isaiah 11:1 “There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of [...]
My dad and step-mom Mary came to Colorado Springs for a nine day Christmas visit this year! We had a great time together, and thought it’d be special to take some professional pictures to remember our fun Christmas! Here are some highlights from the Baumgardner photo shoot:
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2009
Is here! (tab above) Enjoy and check out all the great pictures Christina has added to our family website.
Calling all H.A. Rey lovers!! Everyone with children go out and buy this precious pop-out book!! From the creator of Curious George, this activity book “A Christmas Manger” gives you all the beautifully illustrated characters of the Christmas story to pop-out and use as paper dolls. The inside covers of the book open up into [...]
Posted in Colorado living, Geneva on Dec 22nd, 2009
we love CO, where we can have snow on the ground and blue skies up above! A special thanks to Grammy and Brown Rogers for the wonderful snow gear!!! oh, and you might notice a certain small brown dog in the picture!! That is the latest addition to our little ever growing family! Her name [...]
Posted in Colorado living, family, Geneva, Holidays on Dec 22nd, 2009
She is SO one of my very FAVORITE things.
Geneva gets a new ornament every year, usually representing something from that year. This year she got a hand painted green nutcracker from Germany. For some reason this year she’s become really enthusiastic about Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. She can watch the ballet performance over and over and over (we skip the rats, obviously). She’s getting [...]
This fall Michael’s dad was offered a new job in Washington D.C., so after 40+ years in Los Alamos, NM, the Franciscos packed up, sold their house (PTL!), and made the massive move to Northern Virginia!! They graciously and generously flew us all out to see them for Thanksgiving!!!!! What a treat!! We loved seeing [...]
Posted in Colorado living, Holidays on Dec 22nd, 2009
We discovered a great little farm in the outskirts of the Springs this fall. It was a drive out there, but boy did they have things for us to do and see!! Highlights included:
Posted in Colorado living, family on Dec 22nd, 2009
(allrighty, I know I owe you all about a hundred posts. well, here are at least a few after the fact, but still heartfelt, posts about out recent happenings. thanks for hanging in there with me.) Back in september……. Auntie Debs came to visit!!! We had a blast with our favorite hockey writer, with lots [...]