A Picture is Worth....

So, as you can see from the previous post, I am working on catching up on the blog! Yay!

I figured it might be best to present the major events of the last couple months to you in the form of pictures and captions. This way, you won't have to be submitted to several thousand words of drivel. :)

Here goes:

It all began many years ago....

Yep, that's me! Crazy, huh?

I suppose we needn't go back that far though.

How about, say, Thanksgiving 2012. 

Tons of AMAZING food! Yum!

We were able to fit nearly twenty of us at one table!

Although we had to use some plasticware, cloth napkins
 and homemade name tags jazzed things up a bit! We tested the
hypothesis that a spaghetti noodle will function in the
 place of long match when lighting all the candles...
whoever came up with the idea never tried it. :)

Christmas Preparations! 
This year, I made most of my Christmas presents by hand. Some months ago, my sister brought up the idea of making Christmas-themed pysanky Easter eggs (how is that for contradictory?). Anyhow, I took the idea and decided to make egg ornaments using the pysanky wax/die method. It's been so much fun!

It starts with drawing your design on a blown egg. Then
one adds wax and die alternately to apply color. Once
the final color has been applied, the wax is melted off
to reveal the design. 

I had made Our Lady of Guadalupe before, but this one
turned out better than before. Thanks be to God!

I made this egg for my brother, who is an avid
Corn Husker. :) 

Eggs that tell a story are definitely the most fun to make.
This one has a game of frisbee on it! 

An application of nail polish will add a finished look!

Of course, one cannot prepare for Christmas without
 baking some Christmas cookies! This was the first time I
was introduced to "painting" unbaked sugar cookies...
Never. going. back.

Christmas! 
This year, Christmas was a bit toned down due to the flu, but it was grace-filled nonetheless! Thanks be to God for niquil and sudafed though! We were blessed to have my brother and sister-in-law join us part of the time!

Prince of Peace

 

A family of Huskers. 

The wonders of cream cheese and ranch mix. 

Yeah. um. These are the best chocolate chip
 cookies in existence. Their name?
"I want to marry you cookies" 

The beauty of the Nativity is that it looks
forward to Calvary.

Ok. This is embarrassing...

Ok. So here's the thing. I have a plentitude of things and pictures to share with you but am not sure where to start. The ironic thing is, despite the fact that things have been rather quiet around here lately, I  actually have sat down to write fairly regularly. Hence, my post page looks like this:

Yep, that's right. Three fourths of recent posts are unfinished and unpublished. Hopefully this isn't a gauge for life. ;) Anyhow, I hope to get caught up soon!