Whatever Girlfriends

 Mark and Kevin are playing Uno! Please pray for our friend, Kevin.  He was in a bad accident back the first of October.  He was in a coma for a couple of weeks.  He is improving each day.  God has given him a miracle, for sure.  We are hoping he will be coming home soon.  He will still have a lot of work to do, but he is strong and determined kid.

OK, girlfriends, I'm ready to show you what I have been working on for weeks and weeks.  I told you I was working on something for two special people - it is done!  Let me tell you who, what, when, where, and why.  For as long as I can remember I have given my girls a "Happy December" present.  I just love the Christmas season so much that I am ready to begin the celebration.  So on December 1 I would have a gift for my kids.  They might come home from school and find a Christmas shirt on their bed or I would present them with Christmas socks or a Christmas trinket, maybe cookie cutters or sticker book.  Just something.   For fun!  This year I made: Grapevine Christmas trees!!!!  I had lots of help!  My sister, Nancy, Mark, and Hank all helped me gather the vines.  Poor Hank got poison twice from helping me find vines!  Then I wrapped the vines around a tomato cage using the vines and thin wire.  It took lots and lots of vines!! I also made vine stars to go on

I will try to show you the decorations, foods, and activities we did.  My camera was dying - sad me - so I didn't get a lot of good pictures taken, but you can get the idea. This is the ceramic jack-o-lantern that my mom painted back when we were kids.  I remember it at our house each fall season.  So when she gave it to me I loved bringing it out each year.  I will turn it around so you don't see the face during the Thanksgiving season so we can enjoy it even longer.           My BFF made us this dirt cake - yum!  And Mark added the bones.  :)  All the food was delicious! This is a ghost made of a tomato plant thingy and white sheet!  Instead of bobbing for apples, they were on a string and you had to "catch" them with your mouth - no hands! We had a fire outside to hang around so we could keep warm. A surprise for Trent - he just turned 17!  The cake was a fire breathing pokemon!  We served cold orange punch or hot cider!  One of our activities was a pie eating