Photo project-day 13

these are a few of my favorite things...

When it comes to Christmas, we so enjoy getting out our most treasured things. So many little items have precious memories that go along with each one. Here are a few of mine: snowflakes, a glass ornament from my husband, a new flower to myself and a very old crochet angel. But these are only the tangible ones, below is what I treasure most! Here are 4 of my little treasures taking an afternoon nap. And one of their favorite things is... making a huge 'pallet', right in front of our tree, then piling lots & lots of blankets and pillows everywhere and finally ploppin' down for a long story, a family game or in this case just a nap. I actually found room to squeeze in there myself this afternoon too. It was great! I really needed the nap. (ps-they don't know I took this pic, ha!)

This is the gorgeous sunset that graces our back yard every evening. What a wonderful God we serve!

photo project-day 12

Since we didn't start this project on the 1st of December, we will add a few extra pics along the way.

When I was growing up, my Grandma always had apples on hand. She said, "An apple a day keeps sickness at bay." So especially around the Christmas season she would make these wonderfully, delicious cinnamon apples for all the grand kids.

I loved them immensely. So this year we made some of our own and they turned out just lovely. Every year when it gets colder, we like to give our little doggies some special, holiday treats too. Here are Lacy, Autum and Reebok(the cat) waiting for something special. They almost look like they are smiling. Well, maybe not Reebok. She's a cat, after all!

DECEMBER PHOTO PROJECT-Day 11

My friend was telling me about a project that she was doing on her blog...it is a photo project and basically you take every day during the month of December and document it with a picture. The picture should show what December/Christmas means to you and your family. Now, since I am a bit behind, I will start with today (the 11th). Maybe I will place 2 or 3 photos in one day...or not...I will most definitely, absolutely have fun with it! Hope you will try it too.

Day 11 Fresh baked cookies..mmm...this is one of the favorite things for our family.

We have had some pretty cold weather here in Alabama. One morning we woke up and it was snowing!! It was so beautiful as it was coming softly down. The children got their coats on and we all ran outdoors to 'play' in it.

My poor little pc

Here we are in the month of December and no posting yet. Well, I do apologize to all my bloggy friends for not posting. My computer is not running too good lately and even though a friend looked at it and fixed some of the problems, it is still not able to run good. It blinks out and the screen goes black and then when we try to turn it off, it stays on indefinitely. But, I am trying to view all of your blogs and that is quite a job for my pc. I have been enjoying it emensely though!!! Hopefully, we will get things running better soon. Till then, Christmas time's a coming and oh it won't be long! Much love, Kimi

Early Winter?

It seems that winter has come a bit early for us here in Sweet Home Alabama. These last few days have brought some cold winds and even colder temps.

Although we have had frost several mornings already, this morning we woke up and there was frost all over the ground...it was everywhere! It was the prettiest morning yet. Sunshine everywhere, glittering mist, brisk air into your lungs!! Just wonderful! "Frost on the pun-kin!", says Grant's Granny. Meaning that it's a 'frosty white' all across the fields, the hills and mountains and also time to bring in the pets, store up the lawn furniture and get out the favorite recipes for baking! Ooooo, we love it. There's just something special about baking when it's brisk and beautiful.

We have a few Holly Berry Trees in our front yard that are producing so many berries this year. I'm told that is a sign of a hard winter ahead. The berries will be good food for the birds passing by later this month. We've already had so many flocks flying by, we knew winter was on its way soon.

It registered 30 degrees on our digital thermometer early this morning.

I woke the kids, bundled them up and out we went. They were picking up tiny pieces of grass with little crystals all over them. It really was beautiful.

I don't think these pics do the frost justice. If you look far out in the middle of the picture, though, you can see the deeper frost that is in the shade of the trees. It was precious to see my sweet children having fun early this morning. They are hoping for some snow pretty soon.