Skip to main content

The Bunch Wish You a Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful time during the holidays this year. I pray each and everyone of you have a great and wonderful new year. In keeping with tradition each of our children was allowed to open one gift on Christmas Eve after church. T opened his ninja outfit the girls got him. He looks cute doesn't he!

 The kids actually slept until 7am this year! Yay! T received Star Wars themed gifts from us, though D has informed me the movies were mostly for him!

 My sugar addict daughter asked for the large Jelly Bean mix. It came with 40 different flavors. She was ecstatic.

My oldest daughter has become obsessed with Audrey Hepburn. I have no idea where she picked this up since I do not watch any of her stuff, but the blanket is very soft and she loved it.

Every year Santa hides clues for the kids to find their last present. They love the treasure hunt and look forward to it each year. They have said that it is there favorite part......I doubt that. They love everything about Christmas!
L looks in the oven for a clue while the cat supervises.

A solves her final clue and discovers her gift in the washing machine.

For the first time ever, we hosted the holiday brunch. It was surprisingly low stress. I really enjoyed hosting it and having everyone come over. Maybe we will make this a tradition?
Enjoying family time at the brunch.
 My husband and I like to make gifts for our families (in addition to other things). This year we spent most of the year making vanilla, making a key/mail holder, and a couple of clocks. I didn't think to take a picture of the one I sent to our Aunt, but this is the one we made my mother in law.


This is the key holder we made for my father in law.

My oldest and I enjoying Christmas, well I was he was sick.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Bunch's Streak Of Bad Luck Continues

We made great time on the way there! It's amazing how leaving only 30 minutes later can help immensely with traffic. I wish all the shows started at 8 instead of 7:30.  What a week this was! We went to Bass Hall to see Back to the Future. It was ok. Definitely not the best play we have seen. The boys went with us and since the last two shows they joined us for were The Outsiders, which is one of, if not our most, favorite show ever, and A Christmas Story, which is in probably in the top 6, they were really not impressed. However, we still had a nice time doing something different together.  We love Bass Hall❤️ We had opening night tickets and got a GREAT deal! I went in this week and had my polyps removed plus they did a biopsy. I was more sore and for longer than I anticipated. Yes, the doctor said recovery was about 10 days, but I really only anticipated maybe 3-4. Boy, was I wrong! It's been 7 days now and by 10 I think I will be completely back to normal. Unfortunately, sh...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Bunch Have A Fun Week!

D had his awards banquet at a BBQ place we had been wanting to try for awhile. The food was really delicious and not greasy at all.  We have had a lot of expenses thrown at us lately. We bought our new appliances , which were well planned for. However, after that we had 2 cars to get repaired, one of which   was decided that it was too expensive and would make more sense to get a newer, stronger, younger one, I have to get some polyps removed, we owe uncle Sam money for the first time ever (thanks to the rule about the year a child turns 17 you lose the child tax credit even if the majority of the year they are 16), and lots of other little things. You know how it goes...when it rains it pours. Since we were unable to take the rv out because of the tow vehicle being unable to tow with a heavy load, more like us not wanting to risk trying, and since A had a day off work, we decided to go on an adventure to do something that none of us ever had done before. We started with...
Post a Comment
Read more

The Bunch Say Goodbye

  Aunt P picked a lovely cemetery. It was so beautiful and peaceful. For the past 8 years or so we have helped our Aunt P.  We have had numerous visits and conversations over the years, not to mention dinners and root beer floats. We have watched her physical health decline while her mental health was still sharp as tack. Sadly, the last month of her life she had started to have several moments where she didn't know what was going on. We had numerous conversations about her death with her and we are very happy in knowing that she finally has the relief she wanted. The past year in particular was VERY hard on her and she needed help more. D and I would visit almost every Wednesday and Saturday, plus whenever she called for help. It was nice to talk to her. She was witty, smart, knew the answer to just about anything, and did a wonderful job of making you feel special and loved. I once told her that I would really miss our chats when she was gone...I will. I really enjoyed getti...
Post a Comment
Read more