Tis' The Season

We always exchange little gifts with about 25 of our amish neighbors at Christmas time.
  It is always fun to see what they bring to the house. 
They have such creative ideas and beautiful cards!

This card was made by the owners of Shady Lane Impressions on Beaver Dam Road.
It is a really neat card making and craft store.
You should visit some time!

Homemade bread, jam, pies, seasoned pretzels and cheese, party mix, lots of cookies, a candle in a drinking jar with potpourri, apples, oranges, caramel popcorn, brownie mix in a jar, etc.
(Some items not pictured - they were eaten!)

For our gift we layered hot cocoa mixes in a jar with chocolate dipped spoons to stir.












Joy and Lillia rode their bikes 7 miles delivering the mixes.

Merry Christmas

May you enjoy this Blessed Season knowing that you are thought of kindly, prayed for faithfully, and treasured in Heaven.

Holiday Blessings from our family to yours!

"If there had been no Christmas, there would been no resurrection. If there been no Christmas: there'd been no love, there'd been no peace, there'd been no hereafter for the believer; if there'd been no Christmas."
~Brother Branham

What if Christ had not come?

If you want to read a really good article click HERE.

 

Tying Pillow Class

Faith taught the girls how to make NO SEW FLEECE  PILLOWS.

We made them to fit 12 inch pillow forms.

My Mom printed out a sheet from Creations that we started the class with.

First we cut out 4in. squares from the corner of our 20 in. fabric pieces. 

Once we did the corners we started to cut out the 1in. strips that would be used for tying.

You could use a ruler or eye it.

Everyone hard at work.

And now for the tying.

And the finished product...

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Melissa taught the boys class on how to make coat hooks, key holders, and little boxes out of old license plates.

This is the page that Melissa printed out for the boys.

I thought it was pretty neat!

All done!

Jonah and Hannah were unfortunately sick the day of State Speech Night,
so they said their speeches to us!