Resolution
I am going to try to post at least one picture or little tid-bit here everyday this year.
Archive for December, 2004
A Good Christmas
We had a wonderful holiday and hope everyone else did too!
Christmas Eve dinner was, as usual, great. There was so much good food and Steve and Honey’s house looked so pretty (Daniel was a little worried about the snowman in the bathtub though). All the kids opened their Christmas pajamas and then the first round of homemade gifts were exchanged. David had Chad’s name and made him a really cool little wooden box. Aunt Bobbi had Daniel’s name and made Daniel a beautiful Christmas book all about him. He LOVED it so much that he did not want to let anyone else see it! It really is a wonderful book and it will definitely become a Christmas tradition to read his book at Christmastime.
It was then time to head home and get ready for Santa. Daniel left cookies and milk for Santa and a carrot and water for the reindeer. We read a few Christmas stories and then off to bed. Tommy and Austin stayed with us this year and it was so nice to have them here on Christmas Eve night and on Christmas morning!
Christmas morning Daniel got up around 7 and went to wake up Uncle Austin. We all went downstairs to see what Santa had left and to open presents. Daniel got tons of stuff (multiple playsets, lots of games, a bike….the list goes on and on), David got DVDs, books and a new monitor, I got a bunch of cool books, a new watch(from Daniel), a red hand mixer, red cookeware, a pot rack and DVDs!
After a quick ride on his bike, we were off to Grandma and Buddy’s. We had some yummy snacks and some ham and biscuits and then opened even more great presents! Then we exchanged the second round of homemade gifts. I had Honey’s name and knitted her a candy cane scarf (and now I can finally knit in public!). Steve had David’s name and made him a really cool remote box (which we really needed!). Daniel had Austin’s name and made him a picture cube and wrote ‘To Uncle’ on the bottom. And finally, Robin had my name and drew me the neatest picture. I think she called it a two-point perspective, it was from the movie "You’ve Got Mail," and it showed both the book stores decorated for Christmas, it’s really cool!
Thank you to everyone for all of our gifts and your wonderful company! We had a a really good Christmas!
Slight Delay
I will (hopefully) be posting more Christmas pictures and such sometime tomorrow, but I am going to have to rebuild my computer tomorrow (read-David will be rebuilding my computer for me) because it’s been acting weird for the last couple of days.
If no major problems arise, I should be back online by tomorrow evening and able to post.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!
Merry Christmas!
Just a quick post to say Merry Christmas and post a few pictures. Click here for the pictures.
Check back later this afternoon/evening, I’ll be adding more pictures from last night and today and finishing up the 12 days of Christmas.
Merry Christmas!
Love,
The Sidlingers
Minor Adjustments
I’ve been making a few minor adjustments to the photo albums, so a couple of them might be unavailable for the next few days. They are all still located to the left, but you now have to click on the photo album title rather than the picture to view all of the album.
In the process, I’ve added two new albums of pictures of the last three days.
On the eleventh day of Christmas…
My true love gave to me, eleven UPS deliveries (online shopping is great!).
Three cool Christmas websites.
Bread and Milk!!!
The ice is coming, the ice is coming!!
Ok, so maybe we should wait and see if it is really going to do more than rain, but I had to join in on the weather hysteria the local media has going on.
Hope you all have your bread and milk.
Stay safe!
On the tenth day of Christmas…
My true love gave to me, ten pounds of fruitcake.
Yes, I brought our bathroom scale into the kitchen and weighed the fruitcake batter. It was exactly 10.0 pounds. I forgot to take a picture of the completed cake before I gave it to Grandma, but it was just as heavy.
Three cool Christmas websites.
On the ninth day of Christmas…
My true love gave to me, nine buckets of water (see The Great Flood Of Aught Four).
Three cool Christmas websites.
