Getting ready for Christmas
Evan wanted to make paper snow flakes this year, so we all joined in and tried to figure out how to fold the paper so that it would work. I started out making half snowflakes and three-quarter snowflakes, but we did finally figure it out. I had to abandon the paper crafts book and go and google it. Our window looks so pretty from the road with all the white snowflakes showing through.
So sweet.
When it rains, it pours. And we’re dry!
A couple of weeks ago, we painted our bedroom top to bottom. We thought it was a good idea to spend the night sleeping in our guest room so that our room would have time to dry out. It had been raining that day and continued to rain during the night. We heard drips as we tried to sleep, but chalked it up to the gutter which was just outside of the window. The next morning, the ceiling in the guest room was discolored from a water leak!! We started calling roofers out for advice and quotes. In the meantime, we had a few more rainy days and worried all through the sounds of rain. We were able to choose a roofer who was ready (and happy!) to get to work on the first dry day. They came early in the morning and worked straight through until around 4:30 that afternoon, not even leaving for lunch, so that it could be done before the rain started back the next morning.
While the roofers were working, they found they had to replace wood on three different areas, one being by far the worst and the source of the leak. He said that he wasn’t sure at all how the tiles were even still being held on, the wood was so bad! I might have chalked this up to a bit of roofer’s drama had it not been for the picture:
Evan’s Christmas Story
I went to Evan’s school today and was able to talk to his teacher for a few minutes. She wanted to make sure that I had seen the story Evan had written this week and that she had posted on the wall outside of the classroom. I’ve tried to type it in just as he wrote it. Here is Evan’s story:
One day I was in my bed and I heard the faint sound of bels but not sleigh bels they where the bels that my Grandmo sewed on my stoking. I did not care to look doun stairs because Santa might see me and…
I would get in trouble I even might not get my presents that would usually go i my stocking! so I opend the window as quick as a flash. Then what do you know I saw all of santas reindeer oll exept one. Then I heard the sound of…
hoof beats! I thot about what I had said in my head erleyr that night! I thot about my four year old brother! my brother likes to wake up a lot in the night so I got up realy quiyatly and crep doun each and every…
step untel I got to the veary botem of the stairs. I saw a veary plup little man in a red soot and a flopy hat. I was santa santa did not notes me but I could see everything and I saw trouble! My brother…
was beahind the caoch geting ready to jump out and scare the raindeer that had been in the haos the hole time! I wistperd over to Grayson to come back up stairs but oll he did was nod his hed and boy I was scard…
that he would jump out and scare santa! With out thinking I hureed over to santa and said that Grayson was gowing to hurt his raindeer! Than Santa got eveary thing ready and we oll got to bed but Santa rode away on his sleigh.
Best Pics of 2008
We’ve been going through images from the past year, trying to select our favorites. We have so many pictures that show birthdays, blueberry picking, applesauce making, fantastic trips, and lots of pictures of boys doing favorite things, reading and biking. Could we narrow it down to twenty? Nope. Could we narrow it down to forty? No! The gallery below shows the results, our favorite 83 pictures from 2008… Enjoy!
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