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Monday, December 29, 2008

A Christmas Of Giving And Love



This year we wanted to find a way to help someone for the holidays. We have a man in our ward who serves at the prison and holds LDS church services. He gave us the name of a family that was in need of some help for Christmas (their father is in prison). It was a Mom with two teen age children. We got together with the Hale family and divided up the list of the things that they needed. We spent some time shopping and wrapping, Cindy even made some homemade rolls for their Christmas dinner. On December 23rd our family and the Hale Family met in Peoria to deliver the goods. All twelve of us entered their home single file, each with their arms full of pretty wrapped packages. It was a good feeling to see the smile on their faces. We sang them a few Christmas Carols and then went on our way.
The Next morning we all got together again and put together some little Christmas bags full of helpful things, when you are in the hospital for an extended stay. We then loaded up and headed over to 
"Banner Baywood Hospital". They have a floor there called "Rhodes Rehab". It's for recovering stroke victims. My mom spent some time there a couple of different times, it is a great facility and I really appreciate what they did for my mom. 

This is Mom on her 81st Birthday 2005 
she spent is at "Rhodes Rehab"


Getting our gift bags ready


Brother and Sister Love

We Caroled to every room on the 3rd floor,
and delivered our little goody bags.
Rachel and Melanie even played a piece on the piano, it was so sweet many were in tears. Thanks to the great harmonizing talents of Dave and Cindy's ability to keeps us on tune and add some variety to our repertoire. We didn't sound half bad!


Brothers



It was really a lot of fun and I know that it 
brought a little Joy into the hearts of those who had to be 
spending their Christmas in the hospital


Annual Christmas Eve Family Photo




We still line up by age to come up the stairs on Christmas morning

Brother Lovin

Father Son Lovin

Good old fashion marshmellow gun fight

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas Homemade Style

Ben got me one of those fun digital photo frames
 and filled it full of Pics of him, they are a crack up
Align Center
Notice the tree hugger?!

Roni has become a DOMESTIC DIVA, she really got into the Christmas spirit this year, for about 2 months before Christmas she did scrapbook night every Tuesday. She made this amazing calendar for her dad for Christmas. Very impressive! 
Way to go Roni!












Roni got me all caught up in the fun of surprising someone with the perfect homemade Christmas gift. So I made a photo memory book for each of my kids.

This is the outside cover, 
they each have there own name on them of course
inside the front cover
inside pages:


























Every Wednesday night Roni got together 
with a friend for Sewing night.
She made these adorable aprons for me for Christmas
This one is reversible
Didn't she do a great job!

Tyler got in on the homemade action also, 
he did this cool frame for Roni