My sweet Geneva spent countless hours in the weeks prior to Christmas wrapping presents. At first she just wanted to hang out with me as I wrapped gifts to send to people and her “wrapping” consisted of cutting paper and ribbon and taping it all together in various geometric shapes. But then she decided she [...]
Category Archive for 'Holidays'
My dad and Mary came in from California to celebrate Christmas with us this year. We had a lovely and festive Christmas Eve . We spent the morning strolling through Old Colorado City looking at shops, eating French pastries and taking a surrey ride around the downtown. We feasted on our traditional Christmas meal of [...]
Every year at the RJ&L Christmas party, which is a wonderful affair with beautiful traditional choral Christmas music and fantastic food, Santa makes an appearance bringing toys for all the children. This year was extra special since Mrs. Claus and two elves also showed up! a note, no matter how many times or ways we’ve [...]
the Nutcracker!
Posted in Colorado living, Geneva, Holidays on Feb 5th, 2011
Geneva has been quite engrossed in The Nutcracker ballet for probably a year and a half. She knows the story backwards and forwards and can readily recognize most of the music. This Christmas season I knew I wanted to take her to see the ballet, but knew she just wasn’t old enough to sit through [...]
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Posted in Holidays on Dec 16th, 2010
Geneva insisted on being part of every step of decorating the Christmas tree this year. It might have something to do with her favorite book at the moment that we read two to five times a day – Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree, in which seven different trees are “trimmed.” But whatever the reason, she was [...]
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Posted in discipleship, health, Holidays on Dec 16th, 2010
the things we do to delight our children…I have a horrible migraine, I just want to lie down in sweats, but Fancy Nancy, er, Geneva, asks so nicely that we all get fancy in our Christmas attire. Of course, sweet girl. Mama will always push for you. So here we are in our Sunday Christmas [...]
TREE HUNT!
Posted in Colorado living, Holidays on Dec 15th, 2010
Michael and I both grew up in an area of the country where tramping through the forest to cut down your own Christmas tree is normal and in families where this was a favorite tradition. This is one of the Christmas traditions that we want to continue in our family! This year we made a [...]
Thanksgiving 2010
Posted in Holidays on Dec 11th, 2010
Our Thanksgiving was a quiet one this year. We invited probably 20 different people over, but most everyone has family close by or had previous plans, so we just spent it as the 4 of us. This worked out quite nicely since we arrived home from DC just a couple days before Thanksgiving. We had [...]
Snowy Vacation
Posted in Colorado living, Holidays, travel on Nov 26th, 2010
We are so, so blessed to live in the land of the Rocky Mountains. Some of our dear friends from Los Alamos own a condo in Frisco and almost every year we’ve lived in CO we’ve been able to go up there for a little family getaway. This year we decided to go Halloween weekend [...]
I am in no way a fan of Halloween, but when Geneva’s ballet class was having a costume day and party after class at the end of October I let her pick out one of her many dress up outfits and participate. She chose to be Snow White, and a lovely little princess she was [...]
fall tradition
Posted in Colorado living, Holidays on Nov 26th, 2010
Here are pictures from our annual fall trek up to Anderson Farms, our favorite fall festival and corn maze in the state. Every year they have the most amazing non-haunted corn mazes you’ve ever seen – this year there were three mazes, an eagle catching a fish, and a moose and a grizzly bear in [...]
whenever you can, be friends with professional photographers and invite them to everything you do!!!! haha. No, but seriously, thank you for the beautiful snapshots you took for us, Emily!
Geneva is very into Princesses. She has the name of every Disney Princess down pat even though she’s only seen Cinderella and a very select 20 minutes of Snow White. Cinderella is, of course, her favorite. And she begged us for a Cinderella themed 3rd birthday party. The party was a family affair. Geneva’s great-grandmother [...]