Red and Green

 Ahhhhh . . .  (long sigh)

 At home after our church Christmas service.

Had to get the tree in there or you might miss the significance of the shirt and tie! HA

Look at these two!

Could they secretly be Santa's elves?!? 

New News

Haley and Ken got going and left the house early this morning. They have been trying to get around to this for ages. Haley is now the proud owner of a . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . driving permit. Run for your lives!

Revolutionary War Dress Fabric

Haley has started her dress sewing for our history study this year.

She's been pouring over her fashion history books getting ideas to implement. Should be fun to see what all she comes up with. I love her creativity.


She got some great ideas for what she wants and will of course be altering the pattern. You know she can't just make it the way it says. She wants it to be authentic. "smile"

Matthew's clothing will include more exciting things like skins, knives, hats, canteens, and maybe a pistol! I love studying history this way.

Mexico

Dear friends, I thought that you might like to hear that

I(Haley) have added a new stamp to my passport. Mexico is the fifth foreign country I have visited. As some of you early blog followers might remember two years ago Gretchen went with Dad on a business trip to Curacao in March of 2007. Every two years Dad's business takes their customers on a company trip, and since Mom still does not like hot weather and Gretchen is married and has a baby Yea......Oh sorry, :-) any way the long and the short of it is that I was able to go with Dad to Los Cabos Mexico! We went the first week of March, thankfully before the swine flu problem. As you see this post is a long in coming, but if I had posted about it before the weather here got nice, some people might end up being jealous and that would not do.

Waiting to welcome us.

We had a suite and a normal room which was really nice,
they were adjoining. First there was Dad's room.....

and then there was the dining/living room........

and my room.


In case you are wondering where Los Cabos is, it is on the tip of the Mexican peninsula that is beneath California. Los Cabos is between the towns Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo, Los Cabos is also where Gretchen and Kyle went for their Honeymoon.

On the second day there, we went site
seeing, first we went to San Jose del Cabo, which
is the older and quieter town.


The yellow van in the foreground is a taxi,
most of their taxi's are that size.

After seeing nothing but brown at home it was refreshing to see vibrant
colors and plants that did not look like they were dead. :-D

On one of our free nights Dad and I enjoyed dinner here.

This place was a luncheon/dessert place.

An electrician's nightmare.

Our tour guide took us though various art gallerias.

Then it was on the Cabo San Lucas the " wild" town,
and the Glass blowing place.

I had never see blown glass in progress,
so it was a fun treat for me.

I can not see how they can stand the
heat in the middle of summer!

When they were done, they took a piece of paper and
touched it to the hot glass and it went up in flames.

Then we went to the flee market. I do not have any good pictures of it. If you picture to yourself a room crammed full of bright colorful tickets, so many that you do not know where to look first, plus getting turned around all the time because it is practically a labyrinthine maze. Then add the noise of people talking in both Spanish and English. Then you will have a pretty good idea of what it was like.

The Harbor.

I will be posting more pictures later.

Haley

Happy Mother's Day All!

Mother's Day 2009!

"Why God Made Moms"

( The following answers were given by Elementary School
Children to the following questions )

Question----"Why Did God Make Mothers?""

The answers:
1. She's the only one who knows where the
scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

Q-----"How Did God Make Mothers?"

1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my mom just the same like he made me.
He just used bigger parts.

Q----"What Ingredients Are Mother's Made Of ?"

1. God makes mothers out of clouds and
angel hair and everything nice in the world
and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men's bones.
Then they He mostly used string I think.

Q----"Why Did God Give You Your Mother And not
Some Other Mom?"

1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other
people's moms like me.

Q----"What Kind Of Little Girl Was Your Mom?"

1. My mom has always been my mom and none of
that other stuff...
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my
guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

Q----"What Did Mom Need To Know About Dad Before
She Married Him?"

1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is
he a crook? Does he get drunk on beer? Does he
make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO
to drugs and YES to chores?

Q----"Why Did Your Mom Marry Your Dad ?"

1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world.
And my mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that mom didn't have her
thinking cap on.

Q----"Who's The Boss At Your House?"

1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to
because dad's such a goofball
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She
sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a
lot more to do than dad.

Q----"What Would It Take To Make Your Mom Perfect?"

1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside,
I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.

Q----"If You Could Change One Thing About Your Mom What
Would It Be?"

1. She has this weird thing about me keeping
my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would
know it was my sister who did it and not me.

"Giggle"

Someone's Birthday!

Haley had a birthday last month!! I was going to put up pictures, but we only took a few and I wanted more.
So I dug some out from the past I had on the computers.

It has been really fun to look through these.
What memories!

Yes I liked to sew and dress the girls alike.

The only thing that would have been more fun was to have more girls!


Gretchen had waited ten years for a sister. She was thrilled and they are still really close.

We've always enjoyed hats!

Ravinia!

Well here is where we went after dinner for this year's birthday. The birthday girl planned the evening. You know Ice Cream is good even when the temperature is well below freezing.


Happy Birthday Haley. May you find Jesus near every day of the year! We love you.