Snowflakes

It was Grandparents Night last night!

Every Thursday we have been blessed to have both sets of Grandparents over for dinner. :-) We try to do something different each week. We've had missionaries or neighbors over that night, done theme meals, told stories, played games, read aloud, sung hymns, given reports, done crafts and on goes the list.

The night started out like this. . . . . . . . . . .

and ended up like this.

It has become a family tradition. Every year since the kids were little we have made cut-out snowflakes. Then we attach them to string and hang them from the ceiling in the dining room. They stay up way past Christmas. Usually until spring thaw.

In the spring I put them away for safe keeping. Then every year sometime during the year they get moved and I can't find them until after we've made new ones. (I think that's really how the tradition got started!)

You can't go wrong and like real snowflakes every one is different! Nate is this year's best at making round snowflakes! Haley did a really creative one for Kyle and Gretchen.

Haley's had Kyle and Gretchen's initials on it with kissy lips and hearts.

Here's a better close up of it.


The Grandparents made some as well. Unfortunately I got the camera out after G&G Lainio left and Matthew had moved on.

Here's one that I made. It has a boy, a girl, hearts and houses on it.

When we finish and get them hung I'll post a picture.

"Come now, and let us reason together," says the Lord, "Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool."

Isaiah 1: 18

PS I still haven't found last year's flakes. =)