Annual Gingerbread Ornaments

Josh and Sharon Pastors House

We were lucky enough as a family 

to be able to join in on the Pastor 

Annual Gingerbread Ornament 

Making Night!!

This is a fun night of gathering together

 eating dinner, stringing fruit loops, 

making and decorating gingerbread 

ornaments. This year we were also 

lucky enough to the Bales family with 

us again! With four out of six of their 

kids there, our two children, and the 

Pastors two children they 

definitely had a full house.

This year we had pizza, which was a 

lot of pizza at the table to be able to 

feed 14 people! 

Sharon got a great deal of good 

ornaments for her tree this year, 

all of which had their own special 

character to them. I love being able

to look at all the uniqueness of each 

ornament and try to guess which 

persons personality comes out in it. :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS

and

MERRY CHRISTMAS

TO EVERYONE!!

Thanksgiving 2011

So this year we decided to spend Thanksgiving down at my folks house! It was a wonderful fun year full of many memories for sure! We started our wonderful weekend out by adopting a sweet little puppy, who we now call Padawon. She sure is a cutie and a perfect addition to the family.


We were blessed to have Grandma and Grandpa Andrews with us this year for the holiday and are so thankful for the time we get to spend with them. We got to play lots of board games, card games, wii games, and xbox 360 games (for Blake).

The day before Thanksgiving the kids got to help Grandma (Mom) with her bread baking for the day. They always find it the best time when they get to get her with the flour. Ayden learned how to properly roll up rolls to make the perfect ball. The funniest party is she always seems to be in her jammies when she is helping out. Guess I need to remember to be packing more jammies for this reason.

 All day Thanksgiving we all spend the day searching the adds and figuring out what our game plan was for the Black Friday Shopping Day of Fun!!! Thanksgiving Macy's parade was a hit and spending time with family and the ones we are all thankful was truly a blessing. We truly are blessed with the family we have. We can all be in the same room for days and still walk away loving each other and miss hanging out. God is truly and Amazing God and knows what he is doing.

Black Friday was a crazy fun day! Jamie ended up not feeling good, but we had her covered :) So this year it was Dad, Mom, Steph and I all our there shopping away. We hit up several store and had a blast doing it. Our last stop of the day was at Kohl's where Mom ended up buying a shelf that just barley fit into the car with all of us and all the bags we already had. Made for a very fun and interesting ride back home.

Dad having to squish along the window and duck down. Steph and I in the back on either side of it.
Mom driving comfortably! HMMM :)

Over all this was an amazing year for Thanksgiving and a great way to kick off the holiday season.