To our Grandma and Grandpa Wilkins in California:
We love you and miss you so much! Here's some Christmas Greetings from your Montana grandkids to you.
Samantha and Logan : A Short Christmas Concert
Luke sort of lets me video him
Rebecca "talking" to the grandparents
(When she crosses her two little fingers, that's her way of doing "I love you" in sign language. ) :o)
Merry Christmas!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Ornaments 2009
First of all, I am sadly not a good photographer. Secondly, the camera is about 6 years old. So forgive the quality of these photos and let me tell you anyway how excited I am about our Christmas ornaments this year! I'm not even sure why.
I grew up from the time I was 4 getting my very own Christmas ornament every year. It's a tradition I enjoy still and have continued for the last 10 Christmases since I got married.
Many years we get the ornament to coincide with something we did that year, but with my kids still being little right now there's not always a major event to match an ornament to. It occurred to me that my mom did many years where the whole family got ornaments of a similar theme. My favorite one is a little ceramic mouse climbing on a star, so I thought it would be fun to find some ceramic ornaments and take the time to paint them all oh-so-cute. Looked around a little bit and they were either too expensive or not that cute. (And seriously, would I have really gotten them done in time?)
Enter a visit to Wal-Mart. Lots of things to complain about with that store, but every once in a while I find a silly cheap thing that is just what I wanted! I came across a collection of gold tone ornaments. They were only (as you can see in the pictures) $2.50! I found some that worked for our family and thought they might be okay.
At some point I wondered if there would be a way to get color onto them. Paint seemed like it would flake off and be hard to do. I remembered some markers we got to color the pumpkin at Halloween, but they were too watery to stay on the metal surface. Then I grabbed my black fine point Sharpie marker and started to color on Logan's penguin. It worked! I found some more markers in other colors and went to town on the ornaments. I think they turned out pretty cute for the minimal cost and effort. I love it when a plan comes together!:o)
Luke's Snowman
Rebecca's Puppy
Ross and Janet's Angel Kids
Logan's Penguin
Samantha's Kitty
The "Before" look
I grew up from the time I was 4 getting my very own Christmas ornament every year. It's a tradition I enjoy still and have continued for the last 10 Christmases since I got married.
Many years we get the ornament to coincide with something we did that year, but with my kids still being little right now there's not always a major event to match an ornament to. It occurred to me that my mom did many years where the whole family got ornaments of a similar theme. My favorite one is a little ceramic mouse climbing on a star, so I thought it would be fun to find some ceramic ornaments and take the time to paint them all oh-so-cute. Looked around a little bit and they were either too expensive or not that cute. (And seriously, would I have really gotten them done in time?)
Enter a visit to Wal-Mart. Lots of things to complain about with that store, but every once in a while I find a silly cheap thing that is just what I wanted! I came across a collection of gold tone ornaments. They were only (as you can see in the pictures) $2.50! I found some that worked for our family and thought they might be okay.
At some point I wondered if there would be a way to get color onto them. Paint seemed like it would flake off and be hard to do. I remembered some markers we got to color the pumpkin at Halloween, but they were too watery to stay on the metal surface. Then I grabbed my black fine point Sharpie marker and started to color on Logan's penguin. It worked! I found some more markers in other colors and went to town on the ornaments. I think they turned out pretty cute for the minimal cost and effort. I love it when a plan comes together!:o)
Luke's Snowman
Rebecca's Puppy
Ross and Janet's Angel Kids
Logan's Penguin
Samantha's Kitty
The "Before" look
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