we had our christmas with derek’s family on sunday. his sister’s family spends christmas with the dad’s family, so the best day to get together was nine days before christmas. although, i’m not complaining. i kind of like spreading out the toy influx. the grownups sat at a fancy pants table with fine china. the […]
christmas
christmas cookie elves.
last weekend, i gathered up mountains of flour and butter and sugar and chocolate and sprinkles and went to work baking cookies with (and mostly without) the lid kid elves. i started out making cutout sugar cookie dough. anna was quite helpful (she just ate sugar, mostly). isaac was not interested. they proved to be […]
gingerbread hizzouse.
here is a way belated post of our gingerbread house construction from last week. it was last tuesday’s advent calendar activity, but then anna took a super long nap after school and we had plans for the evening, so we moved it to wednesday and here’s how it went down… all of the decorations, assembled […]
charlie brown christmas quilts,
volume 2 and 3.
after i made frankie’s top secret charlie brown christmas quilt, i found the charlie brown quilt on fabric.com for so cheap i couldn’t not get it. the problem was, i needed 1/4 yard of all the different fabrics and fabric.com operates in 1/2 yards only. so, i bought enough fabric to make two. one for […]
oh christmas tree. 2012 edition.
finally. thanksgiving is over. and it’s socially acceptable to listen to christmas music. and put up decorations. i may or may not have already starting the former. the latter we attended to yesterday and today… rather than hit up any black friday (thursday?) sales, we rolled the mile-ish into downtown (ha!) lewisville to our favorite […]
the last wny post.
(this time).
welcome back for the final installment of sarah and isaac and anna take new york. here is an account of our last two days there. on friday, we loaded up the kids (including rob’s girlfriend’s son, evan) and headed to lovely rochester, for a trip to the strong museum of play. we took this obligatory […]
the not-so-top-secret-anymore christmas quilt
awhile back, i made this quilt for my uncle for christmas. i couldn’t post it at the time, because i think he reads my blog, so i only posted it on flickr. last year, i was chatting with him and he said, “make me a charlie brown quilt” (in mostly those words). i wasn’t sure […]
christmas. belated.
a long time ago, it was christmas. and i took some pictures. with my phone. and i kept thinking that once i sat down to sync up my phone, i would get the pics and a glorious blog post would follow. then, i didn’t sync my phone. and the pictures got shoved further and further […]
christmas tree assembly.
my mom and grunkle frankles were here for thanksgiving and black friday. while we kept it pretty low key on the biggest shopping day of the year, we still went out to pick out a tree, all the way to downtown lewisville. woo. anyhow, we did a little time lapse video. [youtube_sc url=yLoRfNr60Cs width=560]
2011 handmade gift project
this year, just before thanksgiving, we had to tighten up our budget a bit. nothing like some americans are having to do these days, but enough to put a crunch on christmas. so, i decided to make as many gifts as possible, from supplies i already own. and boy, do i seem to own a […]