Candlelight

Storm during family vacation in Oct

Such pretty scenery after the snow. It was a heavy snow and the electricity went off. We cooked on the wood stove, burned candles and played games and sang Christmas carols. Was very cozy and made the "soul" feel good and cozy!!

More pics from family time

We played alot of Mexican Train and Farkle. It got loud at times but with alot of laughter!! Gordon and Edna were looking at our west trip scrapbooks.

Family time at Belleville in October

There were 2 puzzles going at the same time. One that mom liked to work on and this one was too hard said mom sooo the kids decided to work on it.
There was alot of reading and just relaxing done too!

Back again!!

Today is 3 years ago that we got the call that pop went to his Heavenly reward. This picture has become very precious to me. This is how we often saw pop and mom walking.
I am so happy that we now have satellite for internet. It is much better than dial up!! I am so hoping to blog more often as I do enjoy that. We are ready for Christmas as far as prep goes. We did cut back this year as we all really "don't need" and there are others that really do need. I pray that this season will bring joy and peace to those that are feeling extra lonly through this season.
We have had a busy year with so much going on. Just wanted to check in again and see how blogging goes now with the satellite.

Preparing for Christmas 2010

anyone else busy out there? It sure is a busy time at the Beitzel house! Besides keeping our working schedules, there are many activities to get everything ready for Christmas. Some things we just aren't doing that we did do sometimes. I wasn't going to put up the village this year, but enough comments were made by the grandchildren, that the village is up and lit. School was cancelled due to weather, so Dawson and Jasmine were here. Dawson picked out the kind of cookies we should bake. We made lemon cookies with a lemon icing on and then they did the sprinkles. We had a fun time doing that together. I will try to post some pictures, but I am not sure if it will allow me to again.

trying to post pics

So long ago that I posted anything on here. I tries to post pics tonight on FB and it was pretty fast so I thought I would try here again.