Survey

My survey site only allowed me to view my results for 10 days and one of you took the survey after that 10 days. So I can't view your results. Email me please, whoever you are.

Prayers for Stevie

Stevie has Guillian-Barre Syndrome. Please remember him and his family in your prayers.

Christmas Eve Program

I received the following email request from Weston. He is looking for feedback from the rest of you about what he has planned. I have added emphasis to parts of his email to get your attention. I also added my thoughts in red.

Mom asked me to direct a spiritual program Christmas Eve and I think that I have finally worked out the kinks and I have a rough draft put together.

I have assigned family members scripture and other readings, and we will be singing hymns as well. If you could post the following rough draft of the program on your blog so I can get feedback that would be great. If anyone wants to prepare a special musical number we can work that in as well. I volunteered Lyle to sing a duet with me, hopefully he'll do it, its nothing fancy, just out of the hymnbook, no parts, just melody.

Anyway, here goes:

Opening prayer: Emily
Matthew 1:18-23: Annie
Luke 2:1-7: Mom
Musical number (Picture a Christmas): Emily, Colton, Noah and Luke
Luke 2:8-14: Dave
Luke 2:15-20: Amber
Musical Number (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing): Weston and Lyle
Wise Men Reading: Melinda
Matthew 2:1-11: Nadine
Closing remarks: Dad
Closing Prayer: Grammy


I was hoping we could get Jonathan to videotape it for posterity, I figure if anyone had a cool video camera it would be you guys, and perhaps he would enjoy doing it? (Nadine and Dave have a nice video camera. We actually don't have one and just use our camera, so Nadine would you bring your video camera and have it charged up??)

Don't forget there are hymns (or musical numbers where specified) in between each reading. I figured I would lead the music.

After the program I figure that if anyone wanted to do anything else, ie sing other Christmas carols or songs could do so at that time, or if it works well with the program we could omit a hymn therein. I'm not going to hold my breath, but I thought I would throw it out there if anyone was interested.

Thanks, let me know if there is anything you think would work better or any other ideas.

Weston

After the program what if we told memorable Christmas stories?? Like when we had the house fire?

Monsters Continued

After my last post I made a couple more shirts. All the shirts are the same color of red, which is really nice! I was surprised about that (different brands).

The green monster is Sam's shirt, the blue monster is Noah's shirt and the pink is Emily's. I was hoping if I gave Noah a blue monster and made him look "cool" that he would like it. ;) Again, don't show the kids this or they'll know what I made them!

I decided to put a deadline on the monster shirts. If you want one you have to let me know by December 4th so I have enough time to order it and have it shipped in time.

Monster Shirts

For a Christmas present for the kids I am making them all monster shirts. If any of you adults would like a shirt you need to let me know right away so I can order more monster pieces. The kids shirts are red and have long sleeves. If you would like to have a monster shirt you will need to bring with you a white, black or true red cotton t-shirt with you to CA. I am making Jon and me monster shirts so I bought him a short sleeved black shirt and me a long sleeved black shirt (Walmart or Target are around $3-8 each). I will get the monster pieces for you and show you how to iron it on your shirt. Here is Emily's shirt, please don't show her! :) It is, after all, her Christmas present!!



Disclaimer: The lighting in my house makes the shirt appear orange, but all of the shirts are true red. I noticed the left wing didn't adhere completely so I fixed that after this picture. The body comes separate and then I chose the eyes, spots, etc.

Free Printable Disneyland Countdown

The Crafting Chicks put together a fun Disneyland Countdown to print.
--The Mickey circle you put on the countdown is saved in photoshop. I thought this was perfect because it's a 30 day countdown and I found it just in time for us to use it!
---I saved them in my Google docs as jpegs. This might be easier for you and you can look at them to see if you want to use them!

Here's the link for the Calendar
Here's the link for the Mickey circle

You could also make a paper chain of colorful paper links. That would be pretty fun too.

Comment Problem Fixed

Okay, I think I have the comment problem fixed. If you want to leave a comment please click on the "comment" link at the end of the relevant post. That will give you a pop-up window for entering a comment and then click "publish comment". Hopefully that works for you! If not let me know!

Thanks!!!

COMMENTS

Amber brought it to my attention that she has not been able to comment on this blog. I haven't been able to either. As soon as I figure it out I will let you know. Right now you can either email your ideas or comments and I will post them or you can hold on to what you want and post it as soon as I get it figured out. Sorry about that!

Disney Autograph Books

I created these 4"x6" Disneyland autograph books for the children to use for gathering autographs from the characters at Disneyland. I have included seven information pages for them to fill out with 13 pages for autographs. Each page has a different Disney character picture on it. Do you think that will be enough pages for autographs? Do any adults intend to get character autographs as well? Leave a comment with your answers to my questions please! Thank you!

Christmas Tradition

I was wondering if you would all post a comment on this blog post with some of your favorite family Christmas traditions. It doesn't have to be our family, but specify where it came from please. I thought it might be fun to remember some of our traditions and maybe try to do them this Christmas when we're together. Thanks!

Survey in the First Post

Come on, people, take my survey!!! Annie is the only one that has taken it so far...besides me. Thanks, Annie!

If your spouse took it please take it as well. Your answers might be slightly different (what you want to see, eat, do etc.

Survey

Disneyland Stats of Attendance

Disneyland Statistics

More Disneyland Statistics

Famous Food

Some Famous Foods

More Famous Foods

Character Dining

Character Dining
--upcharge for character meals

Calendar of Events @ Disneyland

December 25th

December 26th

December 27th

Attractions

Rides, height requirements, brief intro of attraction

Space Tours WILL BE CLOSED during our visit.

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