Christmas we celebrate

So because we wanted a layed back day tomorrow we made the big dinner on Christmas eve. This way there will be plenty of left overs to snack on tomorrow. Then settled in for a fun game of seafarers of Catan. Shelly's intro to the game . We each picked a Christmas story or game and then opened our Christmas eve gifts...

And as the hour draws late we have Ron read "Twas the night before Christmas. Followed by a family Prayer and sleepy time , so Santa can come.

Merry Christmas!!! Started out with a wonderful breakfast eggs, bacon, french toast and fried potatoes. yummalicious. followed by checking out our stockings. Santa was good to us.

So this year we got each other one gift that was something wanted, actually we knew about them ahead of time but weren't allowed to play with them until Christmas morning.

Ron's special gift was a 9mm gun. Mine was a wii game system, I didn't say we needed them we wanted them. And the wii will be hours of fun for us all.

Pat just enjoying life, As he hands out his gifts.

Shelly joined us and handed out her gifts.

We just had a layed back sorta day. Chillin and bowling on the wii. no rush just enjoying the fun and joy of each other and the day. Pat and Shelly left around 3pm to spend time with her mom .

and the festivities came to an conclusion by the annual finding of the pickle Once again ole eagle eye Pat found it.

Ron and I enjoyed left overs, talked with each of the kids via phone. and watched our new movies.

Ode to Christianna!!!

Today is Christianna's sixth birthday!! So here are a couple recent pics We have of our second granddaughter. She is our pill. If there is trouble lurking she will manage to find it. But she is adventurous willing to try anything. And we love that spirit she adds to the mix that is our family.

We are thrilled for this your special day and we wish you the happiest birthday ever. We'll bring your present up when we come up to visit in a couple weeks. We love you a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. See ya soon birthday girl.

fun times with friends

Each year we do a night of Gingerbread house creating, this year was no exception, but we had 2 nights of creativity. Pat and Shelly ended up with thiscreation. Complete with a cavein caused by alledgedly being landed on by santa, I suspect a constuction defect?!?!On the Sat afternoonthe Currry family came over

These are their creations Laura(my advisor in young womens and her daughter Brin.

This is Keely and Cole we had lots of fun and a bit to much candy. December is also filled with gifts and fun with friends this was at my Sewing Diva friends home.
Karen and Dorthy.

Here are Mona and Judy one friend was not able to attend as she had taken her hubby to the hospital. But all is well with him now.

Sew much to do soooo little time

My question is where does the time go? I have big plans to get all these fabulous gifts made for Christmas and then I get caught up in several projects and can't seem to get them all done in time. My plan was to get the things together to mail by Monday. Well it's Wends and you guessed it the package for family is lacking the sewing projects and the one for a friend is lacking the tie I 'veg put where I'll remember it and I've forgotten where that is. I have about five weeks till the quilt retreat I'm in charge of and its also not even close to being pulled together. So here I am with another day of rushing to get things done and not having enough time. What I'd like to know is why when you are waiting for news, time drags on but when you need to get things done time flies by. I can't get that. Anyway I'll get back with pics when I finally get caught up. No I haven't got the house decorated or the Christmas cards in the mail yet. Two more projects that I plug away at slowly.

The Christmas spirit arives in our Utah home

Welcome To the Lyndaker home... Let Smokey greet you as he does all our friends this is the snowman room. The princess,or castle room and the tree follows that theme

My sewing area where quilting is the theme, actually I leave this tree up all year long.

This is one of the three bathrooms, The quest bath done in red, our master is the blue one and the basement bath is cowboy theme, see fun for all (even when you have to go.

So this is our bedroom tree theme Angels done in blue and white oops I put this in twice and forgot the Santa room but you get the idea

The family room tree this had all the old world ornaments on it

And yes we had plenty of snow to make the whole season wonderful

this is from the front door showing our very white winter view.

And so were all decked out and ready for the most holy time of the year. when there seems to be peace and love in all our hearts. The air is crisp and there is an air of surprises brewing in the thoughts of so very many. All mad possible because our older brother Jesus decide to come to earth as a baby to show us the way to come home to our Heavenly Parents. What an awesome time of year. I love it. And wish you all the most wonderful December ever.

The Ward Christmas Party

So the party was complete by this jolly fellow dressed in red. A fun time was had by all ... as we got into a energetic sing along with each table having a different day of Christmas Ours was Lords a leaping.

As you can see young and old all really got into this one

And naturally the Mc was our not so shy Scott Solomon!!!!

We had a wonderful program to start the evening followed by a wonderful dinner, and ended with the sing along. so all and all a fun evening.

December already?!?!

So it's December 6th and I'm mid decorating . Yes the house still looks like Christmas exploded here but it is actually coming together and should be looking fabulous by nest week.
So what's the hold up you say? That would be the fact that I'm busy trying to get all the gifts made and in the mail by next Monday or Tuesday. So Ive been dividing my time between sewing and decorating. I still have two quilts to finish but We'll be delivering them next year so there isn't a major lack of sleep, just a minor one, he he.
We have had no snow yet here anyway still in the 40's and 50's during the day. But getting in the teens overnight. Lucky we got the outside lights done a couple weeks ago still need to decorate the porch a bit. It's late , but we have computer issues. Ron thinks their is water in the line so when its frozen it works but in between it is not so good. Anyway I'm gonna sign off. Tomorrow we have our ward Christmas party. And a work party on Mon. So if all goes well I'll send pics in a few days.