Advent Calendar Ideas

Okay, though I don't celebrate the actual happening of Advent...(I think it's a Catholic observance, is it not??) Anyway, I do love the calendars that you can hang on the wall or wherever and put a little treat or fun activity for that day in and help your kids celebrate this wonderful season a little bit longer than just the one day of Christmas. SO starting tomorrow we will have a daily activity that our family will be doing...some of them are pretty hum-drum but hopefully my kids won't think so and will think they're a blast...it doesn't take much with them to have a good time if Mommy or Daddy is in on the activity. So maybe you can get some fun ideas to do with your families or just kinda be a part of ours as we go along celebrating this wonderful month of celebrations for our Father in Heaven's son. Though most of those previously said celebrations do not center around Christ...they should a little bit more I think and that's why with each little activity for the day I've also included a small scripture to go along with it and help us remember the "True Reason for the Season!!"

Some Updates and Pretty Lights!!

Well after seeing everyone else's pretty pictures of their Christmas decorations, I figured I had to put up a few since I'm SO sure everyone was just "itching" to see mine!! Anyway, these are for my mom especially since she wasn't here this year...she was last year.....to help us and take part in all the Christmas decorating splendor....oh yeah and I lied about the wreath picture 'cause it just wouldn't come out right so we'll try that again soon before Chris is gone and can't help me lighten it or whatever on the computer!! ;) TahTah for now and Goodnight!! ;)

This comparison picture is just to show how big a bow I made to decorate our wreath outside on our balcony (in later pictures...you just can't wait I know!!) and the bow on the right (with the cherries) is probably the biggest "hairbow" I've ever made but who said I couldn't branch out to trees and building sized bows!!

He Finally Did It!!

After many long months of indecision on Chris's part (I say Chris's because I knew what I wanted him to do all along...)my wonderful husband decided to re-enlist again for one more term at least just to support his family better in these awful economic times. Though we have tried really hard sometimes to save money for "the future" (I say sometimes because we do well for a few months and then find something that costs more than what our paycheck can afford and we dip into our savings...shameshameshame I know) the money we had saved from agreeing to be here for the extra 3rd year (which is so not worth it if anybody was considering it) is just not enough to cut it for supporting a family of 5 and who knows maybe 6 one day and put food on the table. So we still do not know where our new "assignment" will be and I'm sure there will be many heartaches along the way with all the changes in Chris's job assignment field lately, but at least we know we HAVE to be in the states somewhere...and hey anywhere sounds wonderful to us after being here for just a tad too long!! Thanks again to our wonderful friend and church member Brother Stokes for going to all the trouble of giving Chris and our family such a wonderful re-enlistment "location" and just being our family's friend overall!!

Just random playtime for the two smaller "babies" of the family...pardon my silly catch phrase at the end...I'm a goofball and just thought of the funny irony of the video and the phrase!! You know me!! ;)

Just a random pic of Desi before some event we were headed off to and I thought her brown and pink outfit (complete with new matching bow, of course) looked very stylish and I thought you know that I'd post for those less fashion forward than the beautiful, gorgeous prim and proper Strommers...oh you knew I was kidding when I started that prim and proper junk didn't you!! ;)

Scenes from the Strommers

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