2017 Blue Jeans Week 51

Last week was wonderful!  I have my whole family home now!  Yeah!  After some delays due to snowstorms in the West,Miss A finally made it home after 1 a.m. on Thursday!  So glad to have her home!  We enjoyed lots of activities the week before Christmas.  We are so very blessed and so grateful for our Savior whose birth we celebrate at Christmas!  Take a look at our week. . .

Miss E and Maai on her first ever ugly Christmas sweater day :)

One of my favorite things about the Christmas season--Ben reading a Christmas story each night to the kids by the tree.  

On a very cold night, we went to see a live Nativity that a local church put on. They did a great job!

My mom was so awesome and hosted us to make ginger bread houses so Maai could experience that.  So much fun!

These are our pretty awesome creations!

Maai, Miss O and Miss E rang the Salvation Army bell on a very, very cold day!  Lighting the world through service!  

And She is HOME!!!!!  We love her to death and are so happy Miss A is home for a few weeks with us!!!

And Happy birthday to her!  She got home just in time to celebrate her 20th birthday!!!!  How is it possible that I have a 20 year old?  because I am not that old!!!  :)  She didn't want a cake, but an ice cream buffet, so we put a candle in her ice cream to celebrate and sing to her. 

Hope you all had a blessed Christmas and a Happy New Year!!  Thanks for visiting!  Come back soon!

2017 Blue Jeans Week 50

A great Christmas event filled week!  Had three Christmas parties--wow!  Basketball and lots of cookie making in the middle of all of that too.  Take a look at our week. . .

Sunday was our day to volunteer at the soup kitchen.  Maai joined us, and it is always a great experience to serve.

My best friend is going to be a grandma next month!!!  We have been friends through our own babies being born, growing up, hers getting married, and now a grandbaby coming!  So we got together and made an adorable blanket for that grandbaby boy that is coming next month.  So awesome to have  friends that you experience all of life's blessings and major events with!

Made gingerbread cookies--a first for Maai.  Yum!

Basketball and pep band are here!  Miss O on her mellophone in the basketball pep band.  They are awesome!!

More cookies---made sugar cookies for a church party.  These kids enjoyed decorating them for me!

Christmas party #2 for the week....Ben's department and their ugly sweater party!  Amazing group of people that he gets to work with!!

Christmas party #3, our church Christmas party.  The girls did a musical number on their melodicas.  It was pretty cool.

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you had a great week! Enjoy all the amazing things Christmas season brings!!!

2017 Blue Jeans Week 49

 We had a great week last week.  Ben and I got to get away for the weekend which is a rare treat and always so nice.  Had some scouting activities, we got our foreign exchange student Maai moved in with us, basketball started and we enjoyed some Christmas activities.  Take a look at our week. . .

Mr J got some scouting awards this week.  He is an awesome Boy Scout!  Proud of him!

Ben and I got away for the weekend and the weather was so nice to be out and walking around!

Admiring some Christmas lights!  Our weather has been pretty mild, so it is nice to be out and see them.

Doing some sub-for-Santa shopping which is always fun with these kids!

Welcome to our family Maai!  She is from Thailand and will be with us for a few months.  We are excited to have her.  Went out to do some fun Christmas activities tonight.  This is her first Christmas ever, so that is fun for us to share with her!

First basketball game of the season.  Miss E is playing, and Maai went out, and she has never played in her life, so her first basketball game ever was this week--benefits of going to a small school--everyone plays!  Excited to see how the season goes for these girls!!

Making some snowflakes to decorate with one evening this week.

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you have a great week!

2017 Blue Jeans Week 48

December, here we are!  How did that happen so quickly?  Love the Christmas season!  We had a great week of decorating, a first Christmas concert, and the girls state competition.  Take a look at our week. . .

Love seeing these kids playing together.  Love hearing them play Christmas songs!  I LOVE Christmas songs!

As we were getting out the Christmas decorations we found this picture.  None of the kids claim they made it, though :).  It says, "The Ghost of the pet Dog."  hahaha 

Getting our 12 foot tree up and decorated is a chore and requires some major work!  These kids do an awesome job, though! 

First Christmas concert of the season.  Mr J doing a solo in his Jazz band.  Awesome!

And his regular band Christmas concert.  Loved it!

The girls had their state competition this week for their medical science fair.  They got to spend two days at a medical school and explore and learn.  It was a great experience for them!  So proud of their hard work!

Hope you had a great week!  Thanks for visiting!!!