Driving that train

I wish I had a house big enough to put climbing structures inside. This is one of the boys favorite as the get to play engineer really high.

Gotta love sweet tea and chicken nuggets

When the weather turns bad and you have two toddlers with cabin fever what do you do? We grabbed the grandparents and grabbed lunch. We seem to frequent McDonald's indoor play land often as the weather is worse. The kids love climbing high and shaking around in things.

Our First Snow

It blew in December 5. An early snow, a beautiful snow. It did not last long as that is okay for we are expecting a noreaster this weekend. Those scare me. I will be at the store today stocking up on pellets, butter, and scrap booking stuff. This will be a nice time to bake our Christmas cookies.

The first snow came down all day and did not stop till the evening. But at that point the children were ready to go out in it. We bundled up and the boys helped Daddy shovel out the car.

However as for me I stayed out there long enough to snap some pictures and delight in the enjoyment of my children but then I retreated back inside to the warm fire!

Thanksgiving Pictures

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. My family including my parents went to Gettysburg to an old historic restaurant. It was delicious and the kids behaved! I will have to go back there again. We have not done Thanksgiving meals at home in so many years I truly don't remember when was the last. I enjoy going out to really fine dinning on this day and splurge.

However this year for Christmas we will be having it here. My husband and I will make a meal to remember. I have been thumbing through the cookbooks and writing down what appears is going to be a fest to feed family and friends. I am looking very forward to Christmas.

thanksgiving

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Rockettes

I admit it I am a parade watcher. My favorite ones to watch are the Macy's parades. Thanksgiving morning me and the boys cuddle up on the coach and just watch the parade all morning. I love the brief acts from the Broadway shows but I have always, always been fascinated with the Rockettes. I just love them. Their precision and grace, their beauty, but most of all their high kicks. I wish I could have been a rockette but as a short 5'2" my dreams are shattered. So for now and forever I am resigned to watching them.

Dear Christina,

Every time I try to leave you a comment I get "comment submission error". So I shall leave you a message here. I am fine. I am leaving tomorrow for Selingsgrove, PA. It pretty much is smack dab in the middle of Pennsylvania. I supposedly am going to be staying in a wonderful place with a very high King size four poster bed, antique furnishings, and I believe I hope a fire place. It sounds good but lets see.

My camera broke! I am devastated. No pictures of this room, no thanksgiving pictures and it defiantly puts a wrinkle in my plans. I wanted to get a good picture of the boys for a holiday card but now I have to figure something out. We are sending it away to be repaired so I hope it is back by Christmas.

Speaking of which...I have also been Christmas shopping. I bought my niece the rose petal cottage collection. This is great on many levels. 1 She will love it. 2 I love her so I am happy to spoil my sweetie. 3 I don't get along with her parents and this toy is supposed to be HUGE. :)

As far as Thanksgiving goes....have it catered. It is so much easier, less stress and less clean up.
Can you believe it is almost here? I am gearing up for black Friday. Mapping down my route and hitting it early, and I am one of those 5 am shoppers. Do you do black Friday? I don't do it every year but every other. I usually need that much time to recover.

I have been home the last few days. Cleaning a lot! Such an endless daunting task. I also took Gregory to his ridding lesson yesterday. He did well the horse was so stubborn I would have swore he was ridding an a**.

Lastly yes those pictures were with to makeup or touch ups. However, that was a better day. If you would see me right now not as pretty.

Have a great day!


Karen

mornings

My favorite part of the morning besides my oldest saying mom its a new day or my baby opening my eyes saying wake up mommy is coffee by the fire.

I love getting warmed up inside and out. This is one of the many perks that make fall and winter wonderful. Since I always enjoy my mornings with kids my best buddy wanted to take a picture of us together in front of the fire place too.

But after I am warm here is where I am for the next hour or so. Catching up with all of you guys. And yes this is me before the shower, hair and make up. So I must retreat to the bathroom now and get cleaned up for church.

Halloween

Halloween Halloween, trick or treat, our costumes can't be beat! My little darlings kept chanting that cute diddy all day and night yesterday. And truly they couldn't, they were so cute!Evan was a lion.

ROAR!!!!!

Gregory was a monkey.

Humm what candy should I choose?

Wait for me!

They got the hang of it

And got real tired after 2 hours of Halloween.

Medieval Times

Last night the hubby and I took a date to Medieval Times. It is a dinner theater focused around the medieval them. We sat in the front row and were able to see a fest for the eyes of horsemanship and jousting. We had a great time. I wish we would have brought the children as they would have loved the show. However, they would have been unhappy with the meal. You ate it all with you hands. Drank your soup from a bowl, ate a half a chicken by pulling it apart, and with your fingers grabbed the ribs. My hands were a mess. But it was fun.

The Hiding Place

I am not a book reader. I do enjoy them but I am a slow reader so I would much rather just watch them on TV. I love magazines but are short and easy to find time to read. A few weeks ago I was at the church library. A wonderful place I love to go and am so grateful we have. I went there to look and see what was new. Up on my favorite shelf, the audio shelf, I saw a shinny red DVD looking box. I grabbed it and it was not a DVD but a book on CD. I was excited with these long drives I make every day this would entertain me, and I did not have to read it. It was called the hiding place and looked like a mystery, so I thought. The next day i put it in my car and started listening. It was a biography about a family in Holland during the Holocaust.

This intense story is a superbly produced drama about the lives, sufferings, and triumphant joys of the ten Boom family. Imprisoned in Nazi Germany's Ravensbrook concentration camp for helping to save the lives of Jews by harboring them in their Holland home, Corrie ten Boom and her sister, Betsie, suffer inhuman treatment at the hands of Nazi prison guards. The love between the two sisters and toward their God deepens as their trials intensify.

An old watchmaker in Holland. His two spinster daughters, Corrie and Betsie. Simple, ordinary people. Yet these three unlikely heroes became the center of a major underground operation. Their operation: to hide Jewish refugees from the occupying Germans.
These kindly, law-abiding people broke every rule in the book to save the lives of the men, women and children being hunted by the Nazis. They built a secret chamber in their home, smuggled in food and supplies, procured stolen ration cards. Yet even when they were betrayed and sent away to the dreaded Ravensbruck concentration camp, they managed to create another Hiding Place for those around them...
Recorded in London, England, and also in Holland – at the actual house in Haarlem where the ten Boom family sheltered Jewish refugees – The Hiding Place is a Radio Theatre production unlike any other. The all-star cast includes Wendy Craig (Radio Theatre’s The Chronicles of Narnia) and Isla Blair (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade), and features a stirring original score by Jared DePasquale.
The Hiding Place is an unforgettable true story that shows the cost of standing for justice and humanity in the face of evil.

I loved it I was so excited to listen to it every day. I can only hope to one day have even half the faith of these people. I so strongly recommend it to every one. The version I listened to was great it was like being at the theater.

Here are some links:

The version I listened to.
http://www.radiotheatre.org/products/hidingPlace/

The link to her museum:
http://www.corrietenboom.com/

National Harvest Apple Festival

We we to the National Harvest Apple Festival this weekend and had so much fun. An event we look forward to all year. It was huge better than last year. We ate awesome food. Pit beef that was so yummy topped with horseradish that actually made us go wow.

Barn Games

Evan try to hula hoop.

He is so fast and always on the go.

I had so much fun tossing the stuffed apple balls at Gregory. He loved to play this game.

A hay fight

Watch out Evan!

Now lets get Daddy.

Haha this is so fun.

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