Our Manger Scene

"So they hurried off and found Mary, Joseph, the baby, and Reindeer Dog."
Have a very Merry Christmas!

Santa's Song Dance

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My Dad got a new toy for Christmas - he can turn his old LP's in CD's. While doing this he heard this song by the Oakridge Boys. Sunday night he played it for Laney just to see what see would do. This video is the result.

Kick Christmas Week off Right

We got Christmas started this weekend. My parents came in on Friday for the week. Laney's Christmas pagent was Friday night. Laney was in the Advent pagent at her school on Friday as part of the angel band. (Sorry to picture is grainy it was taken by my video camera while I was taking video)On Saturday morning we went and picked out our Christmas tree. I got to say, it's a little odd to pick out a tree in near 80 degree weather.

Look at trees with Mama Janie.

In the evening, Rob & I got dressed up and went to his company Christmas party.

Tonight we decorated our tree. The girls were playing around while we got the lights strung.

Laney's teachers gave her felt ornaments for Christmas. She got to hang them on the tree herself this year.

Here we are with the finished tree.

Mama Janie & Daddy Ron with the grand-daughters and a couple of fuzz balls.

Making Christmas Cookies

Friday night before we left to go camping Laney refused to sleep. So I spoiled her and let her stay up for an extra hour & help make gingerbread cookies. She tried rolling the dough, but she's not quite strong enough.
Helping place cookie cutters

My cookie making girls

Camping in the Cold

We took Laney on her first camping trip this weekend. Several families from our church met at a nearby lake for a weekend in the great outdoors. A cold weekend. The high on Saturday was in the low 60's and we hit freezing overnight. Super fun! Actually it was. We knew the cold was coming, so we had hats & mittens & fuzzy wuzzy jammies packed. Laney did pretty good, she had a rough time of it at night, between not knowing where she was, the cold & a weird bed.

We lived up the camping life - camp fires, s'mores, hiking & hot dogs.

Here's the view from our tent on Saturday night
Saturday afternoon

The deer in the park were very tame, so we saw a lot of them. Laney asked where they were when we took walks and they weren't there.

Here's Rob & Elena toward the end of our Sunday afternoon mini-hike.

Elena & Kathryn after one of many trips down the slide at the campground playground.

Tag I'm it

How's this for a cruddy photo. After Tara's set up, geez!My fourth folder in my most commonly used photo file is 11-21-2008 and this is the fourth photo. Rob was trying to take a picture of Laney and me at her Thanksgiving lunch at day care, but someone spoke to me just when it was taken. I am not sure what Laney is pointing to.
I like this one better. This one came from the fourth folder in a lesser used photo file, the one where I keep the portrait proofs. This is one of Laney's 6 week old portraits. I'm tagging Angela at Party of Five and Caron at Blessed With Riches.