The Nativity Story Starring the Felker Clan

Over the Christmas holiday, our family got together and decided to take a wack at acting out the Nativity Story. It was quite fun to see the nieces and nephews and some of the adults act it out. I didn't get a picture of it b/c I was helping her, but Kayley was one of the angels and she was really cute the way she did it with her really quiet voice. It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to next year's showing, we'll only charge for ages 12 and older to attend! :) We hope everyone had a great Christmas holiday!

Should I Go Into Business?

Well, I have to say that I was pretty impressed with myself with this gift I made for my Mom and Otto. I promised Michelle that I would post a picture of the finished product, so here it is. It was rather easy to do, just a bit time consuming as I did it by hand. All I did was buy a $4 black fleece blanket from Walmart and 1/2 yard of orange fleece material. I cut out an "M" and a "U" and then stitched them on with black embroidery thread. I probably spent about 3-4 hours on it! I love it so much that I'm going to be making myself one!

Christmas Pictures

Well we hope that everyone had a great Christmas this year! We sure did! The fun part was seeing the excitement of the girls about Santa Claus and their presents. We had fun with the Carles on Christmas Eve, especially with Uncle Jud being so willing to be the reindeer and having all the kids climbing on him!! :) The girls got what they wanted as Kayley was able to get her Pocahontas doll from Santa (the only thing she really wanted!) Cora of course was looking around for Santa Claus when we said "Santa was coming" or "Santa came." This age sure is fun! It is just going by way too fast! I remember our Christmas with Kayley when she was Cora's age and it only seems like yesterday! I'm just trying to savor every moment I can! We hope you all had a great Christmas and that you all will have a Happy New Year this week! Oh and please keep reading as I've put a few more posts up as I haven't posted in a while! Hope you enjoy!

This Is Our Cora

Well, the other day I tried to decide what Cora is, a hoarder of food or a houdini? She was helping me with the dishes the other day and I found these pretzels in the silverware holder and then when I was finished I found her eating on this chocolate bar, which she must have hid it a few days before and then found it again for later. Then she is also a houdini as a few nights ago she started to wake up around 4 in the morning and just cry and cry. Well, I let her cry it out and by the 2nd night Nick and I both heard a thump and she had fallen out of the bed! So, we had one more setting that we could lower the crib and then set up a fort around her bed in case she did her trick again. So far, so good as she has not fallen out and she has also gotten over waking up during that time...for now at least! But, until then, the girls love to jump on the mattress by the bed!

What We've Been Up To

Well, I realize it's been a while since I've posted something. The holidays just get you so busy! Here is a collage of pics that we've been doing. We've baked lots of Christmas goodies, attended a freezing cold Christmas parade in Springfield, played in the first official snow that left remains on the ground, and playing in our snow-wear.

Merry Christmas

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Here's our Christmas Card this year...hope you all enjoy and have a Very Merry Christmas this year! Best wishes to all this year! Be sure to click on all the small pics on the sides so you can see them larger and read the captions.

Happy Belated Birthday Sammy

I know this is a day late as Sammy's Birthday was yesterday, but we wanted to wish him a happy birthday! Sammy used to be Nick's buddy as you can tell when we first got married. We were "ToTo and Neck" to Matt and Sammy was always attached to Nick's hip! Sammy turned 6 yesterday and we can't believe he is getting so big, much less that all our nieces and nephews are growing so fast!