The Celebration Continues.. December 26

I have the best family! Today is my birthday not yesterday like my previous post reads. Sorry Conway. The weather outside was frightful so I really didn't want to get out into it. My children all wished me Happy Birthday with hugs. Shoshannah sang her version of Happy Birthday Mommy. For dinner the entire crew headed out to Paradocks to eat. It was fun to have everyone together. Then Craig surprised me with 2 tickets to see Celtic Woman in March. YEAH! I love having my family around. I am a blessed woman to have such a best friend and husband as Craig. And I must say I have the best children.Thank you Craig Ellis, Andrew, Arielle, Danielle and Shoshannah for making my life so beautiful!
I love you all

The Celebration Continues.. Christmas Day

Well, I thought since the children were older and Shoshannah had no clue about the gifts that we would get to sleep in until at least 6:30am. But alas at 4:00am two of the children started making treks to the bathroom. Arielle couldn't sleep so she sat up to read at 4:00am. Finally at 6 I heard voices whispering. You know that whisper that reaches across the entire up stairs. So I woke Shoshannah and Craig up and the other children woke up Craig Ellis(after all he is an adult now). The children had a great time opening gifts. I think each of them was pleased. Shoshannah loves her kitchen and Craig hates the mess it makes with all those little pieces.After gifts were opened and the trash picked up, Ellis headed back to bed and the rest of the crew played or read. It was a very relaxing day.
The celebrating continues today with my birthday. Then we are birthday free until Saturday when Arielle will turn 13. On Friday night Gina will join us so the family will be complete for this year.

My Beautiful Children

Before we left for Christmas Eve Service my children dressed up, well almost all of them did. And we are missing Gina. She will be here the end of the week and we will take more photos then.
Merry Christmas to all our friends and family. We love you all

The Celebration Continues.. Christmas Eve

These are just some pictures of how we spent more of our day. The girls made sugar cookies,the boys watched several episodes of The Muppet Show, Craig took several naps. There was even a few games of Uno played. Then we had lunch and got ready for Christmas Eve service. We went to the 3pm service and Shoshannah sat through the entire service:)YEAH. Then we came home and cooked our traditional Christmas Eve dinner.. Grilled steak, baked potatoes, salad, and popcorn shrimp. It is wonderful.
We will end our night reading the Christmas Story from the book of Luke.
And of course tracking Santa for my older children! Shoshannah has no idea who he is.

The Celebration Continues... Christmas Eve

One of our family traditions is that we open a family gift on Christmas Eve Day. Usually it is a game and or movie. This year we opened three gifts. One being a new Ono game, Pictionary on DVD,Disney Version, and Pirates of the Caribbean 3. We will be watching the movie tonight. And playing the game when Shoshannah goes to sleep.

The Celebration Continues..Christmas Eve

For her birthday, Danielle wanted to go to Chick Fil A for dinner. Well, her birthday fell on a Sunday so we said we would go on Saturday. Alas, she was sick on Saturday. Bright and early this morning we piled into the van and headed to Chick Fil A for breakfast. I am thinking we should add this to our traditions.

Let the Celebrations Begin... Happy 11th Birthday Danielle

Eleven years ago in Bremerton,WA, I gave birth to our fourth child. A beautiful baby girl we call Danielle.She is so lively and easy going and brings much love and joy to those who know her. We thank you Lord, for giving us the gift of Danielle. Happy Birthday baby girl. We love you!

The Outfit can make the woman or in this case the girl

Notice the presents under the tree? We snuck a few in to see if she would notice..So far so good.

These pictures just show a side of our classy, sassy little girl. She wore this outfit to church this morning and was the hit of the toddler department. Even her Sunday School teacher said she was more sassy acting. Hmmm was that a good thing??