Wedding photos

Just a few of my favorite wedding pictures for Mr and Mrs A!  Enjoy!!!

 

2020 Blue Jeans Week 51

What an exciting week!  We had a wedding!!!  It was perfect!  We only wish more people could have been there--we were limited to 16 at the ceremony, but it was wonderful and could not have gone any better! Will do another post with professional pictures.  Wish you a very Merry Christmas!!!  Take a look at our week...

Making our traditional gingerbread cookies for a Christmas activity tonight.  

Turned out yummy!

On the plane flying out for the wedding.  First time on a plane for Mr J!

Wedding prep!  Sisters getting her ready for her big day!

On the way to the wedding!

Right after they were married!  Lots of smiles! Let us introduce Mr and Mrs A!

Getting lots of pictures done, just snapped this real quick.  These are all my kids now!  I have a new son!  So excited to add him to the family!  Welcome Mr A!! 

Display table at the wedding luncheon

Awesome room where we had the very small wedding luncheon.  There were about 20 there.

An exciting day for us!  Sure love this guy and so happy to have him with me as we go through this thing called life!

Thanks for visiting!  Will post some wedding pictures soon.  Wishing you a Merry Christmas!!!!

 

2020 Blue Jeans Week 50

We have had a good week.  Enjoying the Christmas season and doing some fun things at home.  Everyone is healthy and prayers we all stay that way!  Hope all is well at your homes too!  Take a look at our week...

At school in band class they were going through old instruments and they found a soprano sax.  Mr J plays the tenor sax, and his teacher was excited to find this and wants him to start learning how to play it.  I had never heard of a soprano sax, so it will be cool to hear how it sounds.

Doing some house cleaning and rearranging to get ready to have everyone here for Christmas.  Moving things around....but they found a temporary home in the entry while we figured out where to put them.

Went to a live performance--all socially distanced and masked and lots of other safety protocol in place, but it was so fun to see and listen to this Christmas concert!  

Getting ready for a hot chocolate night with Lucky Charms marshmallows.  Thought that was a fun idea for hot chocolate!  It was pretty yummy!

Ben reading a Christmas story to us one night this week.  I will forever and always love picture books, but especially Christmas picture books!

My girls had a fun evening together this week as they have a short break before finals begin.  It was fun to see them together!

They went looking at some cool Christmas lights!  Excited to see them all soon!

Thanks for visiting!  Hope you all stay safe and healthy this holiday season!  What a crazy year, for sure!  But we sure still have a lot to be thankful for!  Have a good one!

 

2020 Blue Jeans Week 49

It was a good week.  In some ways it seems like December is just flying by.  I think I feel that way because with the wedding coming up and trying to get ready for that and Christmas.  All good things, but lots to do!  We are healthy and safe and prayers that continues so we can all go to the wedding which will only be 16 people allowed, but still so important!  Take a look at our week....

Finished up our Thankful tree for this year.  So much to be thankful for!

As a service project, our church was recording people singing or playing songs, reading stories or poems to be complied into a video to be sent to a local nursing home since they will not be allowing groups to come in and sing and entertain as in the past.  I thought it was a good idea, and I read The Night Before Christmas story.  Love that poem!

Kicking off December with a Lego advent calendar for Mr J.  He was excited!  Being the only one home has its advantages.  

Went exploring around a lake on some hiking trails we had not been to before.  It was a beautiful day to be out and explore!

Screen shot from an impromptu family call this week.  Fun to see everyone.  Miss O had just done some impressive baking and wanted to show us her turtle shaped bread she made.  Fun stuff!  Amazing what technology can do to bring you all together when you are all over the place!

Instead of plates of Christmas cookies or a homemade cheese ball for neighbor gifts, we decided to do Christmas countdown candles.  Ben's dad makes them and has done that tradition since Ben was a little kid.  So we made a bunch (and now really appreciate all Ben's dad does, because they are not easy and ours don't look anywhere near as nice as his) and got them out to our friends and neighbors this week. A fun tradition to share that I hope people enjoy this year!

Another tradition we do each year is cut out paper snowflakes.  It isn't a big deal, but we all enjoy it and finding different patterns to try.  We always hang them up in our big kitchen window after.  These are our snowflake creations this year.

Thanks for visiting.  Hope you are all staying safe and healthy!  Have a great week!