Christmas Countdown - 2012

[caninemom3]

In honor for all the Canadians celebrating Thanksgiving today, my granddaughter and I are about the watch, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!

This is so cool !! I haven't seen this on TV for quite a while...xo

 

[caninemom3]

I hope you stayed within the lines. cheesy

I never stay within the lines.......:wink:

 

[xmas365]

Good evening,

I am very tired tonight, rough day at work getting caught up from a busy weekend. I was running like a chicken with its head cut off most of the day. I did get some great news today, almost an early Christmas gift if you say. My vacation time for the week after Christmas was approved, so I will be off from 12/25-1/2/13 I was shocked it got approved, since they have been so adamant against vacations in December for the last year or so. I am so ecstatic about that right now. Just watching Jaws 2 now, probably won't make it up for QVC tonight.

Have a great night!

 

[caninemom3]

Wow. I bet there weren't many dry eyes in the church. You were blessed to have a dad like that. I hope I can be that kind of parent for my son.

You and your wife already are parents like that...They are both SO blessed to have you two..........xo

 

[caninemom3]

Good evening Christmas family !!

I am so whipped and everything is hurting. UGH. It was really chilly here today so when I finished this afternoon, we made a fire in the fireplace. I am hoping the weather forecasters are off as far as this Winter here....They keep saying it will be warmer than average....I WANT SNOW !!!!!

Take care Christmas family. Big (((HUGS)))) for all ESPECIALLY:

Ella, Harlowe, Snowball, Gomez, Ophelia, Sidney, Alex, Merlin, Snickers, Victor, Daisy, Diva, Mickey, Palmer, Mouse, Bo, Chico, Meca, Alvin, Charlie, Gary, Bailey, Jerrold, Irving, Martha, Uncle Julio, Missy, Scooby, Sasha, Jacob, Cracker, Bunny B, Penny, Pocket, LuLu, Bear-Bear, Stripey, Holly, Fate Puppy (London,) Buster, Missy and all furkids everywhere xoxoo

 

[Christmasstar]

I've been watching Halloween Wars on the Food Channel where teams have to concoct whatever Halloween theme they are given with a momen't notice !! It isn't strictly cakes but there is cake involved and it is amazing what these teams come up with !!! xo

did amazing work on those pumpkins! I love watching these competitions, always get at least one good idea from them.

 

[lauriebear]

Good Monday morning everyone. Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian friends.

We had a very good weekend. The Casting Crowns concert Saturday night was great. We had a very nice day at church yesterday. We have Sunday School at 9:45, Worship service at 11:00 and finally Sunday night service at 6:00. Just enough time in between services to eat lunch and watch some playoff baseball.

Back to work today. Temp was 45 this morning with some light rain. We are forecast to reach 50 for a high with a low of 38 tonight.

Sure hope Accuweather is correct with their winter forecast. They say we will have "much above normal" snowfall. Here is the link...

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/forecast-snow-days-for-winter/83754

Have a blessed day everyone.

MGR so glad you enjoyed the concert thx for the link. Church was very lovey yesterday, we went to the 9:30 service as I had some paperwork to do for the business. We are planning to have next week service outside, hope the weather is nice, I LOVE when it is held outside. Over the summer we held a Wednesday service at the beach, that was amazing.

I agree...that cracked me up!!! :lol:

Right Udntker son William is adorable

Here's your QVC schedule for this week

Tuesday 10/09
12am Bethlehem lights
2am The joy of Christmas
10am Christmas Shoppe
1pm You're home with Jill
6pm Christmas Shoppe
9pm The joy of Christmas

Saturday 10/13
8pm Bethlehem Lights

Sunday 10/14
4am Bethlehem lights
8am Bethlehem lights

I was so busy this summer I didn't realize how much I missed these messages until I just saw you post it thx Made

Good evening MMC! I hope everyone is doing fine. I woke up this morning with a thought that it's already a month and one day since I came to Scotland, and it's already my 4th week at the university. I thought 'How quickly time passes'. It really does. :] I had only one lecture today but my lecturer was frightening us all about our final assessments. It really made the things even worse as knowing the fact I had already been scared about exams and essays at the end of the semester. ^^ Anyway, the good news is I already have my tickets printed for my flight to Lithuania for Christmas.
Have a good evening (or day) everyone! gif[/IMG]

Great news glad you have your tickets squared away. Remember don't overwhelm yourself, one day at a time, we know you can do it

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I took the boys fishing all day.
I'm exhausted. And now going to bed...
Tomorrow it's shopping with my girls!

Hope everyone is well! Im thinking of you!!!

Here is one of my 8 year old boys fishing:

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What a lovely picture, how cool you take them there it is beautiful, look at your son he looks so confident

In honor for all the Canadians celebrating Thanksgiving today, my granddaughter and I are about the watch, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!


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I love when Snoopy starts making dinner!!!

 

[Christmasstar]

I have to take one daughter home and pick up the other one from work, so I am going to sign off now because I want to go to bed when I get back.

 

[caninemom3]

did amazing work on those pumpkins! I love watching these competitions, always get at least one good idea from them.

It is so inspiring how creative some folks are........The thing I kept thinking when I was watching was that my Friend Christmasstar would blow them all away with her genius !!!!! (((HUGS)))) my dear friend xo

 

[lauriebear]

It really was, and it even had a nice surprise. The new windows were too expensive for Nancy and me to be able to buy one. At that time she was home with the kids, and wasn't working at all. Anyway, after I read the dedication for our family window, I sat down. Then they called me up again. Apparently, Dad bought another window with Nancy & my names as the givers.

He's been gone 7 years this month, and he's still surprising me.

cheesy

Oh my Brad that is well I am speechless, what a beautiful gift, what a special man. I am so happy that Sunday was so wonderful, you deserve that and more.

 

[ballcoach]

Brad,

I'm a tough son of a gun...

The fact that your Dad bought a window in your name...it made me gasp and brought tears to my eyes. What an awesome moment that must have been for you!

 

[Seawaters]

LOVED the trailer for this movie!!!

Here's a WalMart link for Courageous: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Courageous-Blu-ray-DVD-Exclusive-Anamorphic-Widescreen/19490416

I own all four movies they've produced, and I buy mine directly from the church here http://sherwoodpictures.com/

 

[lauriebear]

The answer would be no. Thanksgiving is strictly a North American holiday. It was started to give thanks for a strong harvest that would help our first settlers make it safely throughout the cold winter months in the new world.

Thx for the heads up, l've done a lot of Blogging over the last two years on Thanksgiving but it was always from an American point of view. I never even consider other countries didn't celebrate it and my MIL is from and still live in Settle, England. I knew England didn,'t but never thought of all the others wonder what they celebrate that I don't know about, love looking into this kind of history.

thank you everyone for the Thanksgiving greetings!
Undrtakr, love the pictures! Got home from our dinner and realized I totally forgot to take pictures!

We had a great dinner with family. Enjoyed turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, brussel sprouts, meatballs, cauliflower, pickled beets, onions and pickles. For dessert we had pumpkin cheese cake, pumpkin pie, rhubarb, strawberry pie, apple crisp and buckets of whip cream, and ice cream.
Mulled apple cider, tea, coffee and assorted cold drinks were used to wash it all down.
We talked, played with the kids, talked, played games, talked, arranged the family Christmas party, talked, closed the door to the living room because the guys were talking louder than us women in the kitchen!

In other words, we had a great time!

Sounds like a wonderful Thanksgiving glad you all enjoyed CS

Good evening,

I am very tired tonight, rough day at work getting caught up from a busy weekend. I was running like a chicken with its head cut off most of the day. I did get some great news today, almost an early Christmas gift if you say. My vacation time for the week after Christmas was approved, so I will be off from 12/25-1/2/13 I was shocked it got approved, since they have been so adamant against vacations in December for the last year or so. I am so ecstatic about that right now. Just watching Jaws 2 now, probably won't make it up for QVC tonight.

Have a great night!

Yay so happy you got the time off you wanted

I have to take one daughter home and pick up the other one from work, so I am going to sign off now because I want to go to bed when I get back.

Good night CS....
Good night MMC think I will turn in soon too

 

[Seawaters]

The same thing happened to me, too, CAH!

Made, I am not sure if it's just my computer but when I hit "read more" the link didn't work. I will try again later.

EDIT: Nevermind, I got it working now. Hmm... Interesting! lol

 

[ballcoach]

Man, I love reading about Thanksgiving from my northern friends! Awesome! Taker, the picture of William was so funny! Christmasstar, you day sounds almost like ours...you just didn't have any football...but you had a lot better food! I'm so happy for y'all and jealous at the same time! I can't wait for ours.

 

[Seawaters]

I sm SO, SO, SO jealous!!! If you go across the bridge, the first house on the right was ours. My BIL lives there now.

Thank you for the prayers and thoughts. It can be tough but she is still getting around. Even with the cancer, mom can out walk my dad who has emphysema.

Sorry you are forecast to miss most of the winter weather. Weather forecasts are often wrong so you have hope.

Lord willing, we will be visiting our parents in Gastonia for Christmas. My brother, son, and I will be walking through your hometown of McAdenville, (Christmas Town USA). Kind of a family tradition but can't get my wife to walk the 4.5 mile round trip.

 

[Seawaters]

Our Thanksgiving dinner was so good. The mushroom bread pudding was a real surprise; even Hubby liked it. I think the roasted cauliflower was my favorite. The fingerling potatoes with bacon cream was very tasty; so was the mesquite-grilled turkey. Definitely a "do-again."

Hey now how are y'all doing... Today is a little cold and raw here; we have today off for Columbus Day, so I decided to honor our Northern cousins and have a "mini" Thanksgiving Day... As it is Monday night there is Football Texans at the Jets, I have Turkey Breast, mashed potatoes, gravy, almond string beans, and Apple turnover... Mini Turkey Dinner... With all this "talk" of Thanksgiving I was aching for a dinner like it...

I am going to attempt to read what I missed over the weekend but that is easier said then done we sure have a lot of posts how cool is that though!!!!

 

[Seawaters]

I just read your post, so I am a little late. But I have some of the wine right here. So here's to you and yours!!!

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I can't wait to read if you liked it!!! I am having a "Mini" fest today we are having our bottle with it tongiht so at around 6:30 EST I will toast you my CA / MMC friends.



Tee hee - right it sounds better then my menu for sure!!!



YAY!!! Me too SW!!!



Hmmm, 2004, Hmmm, 2004... I was very sadden by that baseball year... No we in my house have never forgiven the Yankees for such a debacle... It was a hard lump to get over, don't know that I am...

 

[Seawaters]

I was so lucky to live there!!!

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praying for your mother & your Christmas time visit to Mcadenville sounds like a wonderful time you share w/ family. i love that place.

 

[Seawaters]

Sweet!!!

♥ Happy Thanksgiving Canada ♥

I took the boys fishing all day.
I'm exhausted. And now going to bed...
Tomorrow it's shopping with my girls!

Hope everyone is well! Im thinking of you!!!

Here is one of my 8 year old boys fishing:
(well, they turn 9 next month)

Goodnight everybody!! ♥