Hello!

Yes, it's true. I have been convinced by 'certain' members of our family to get back to blogging again! Although truth be told, I wasn't terribly hard to convince! I've missed blogging, and especially now that summer is here I have more time!
So the blog has gotten a face-lift... new background, new colors, new and updated info and even a new name! So I hope you'll all come back and start reading again, and that I haven't been permanently branded as a deserter! :P

I hope you're all having a wonderful summer!

~Emily

Good Bye!

I really wish that there were more than 24 hours in a day!

Because then maybe, just maybe, I could find the time to blog, and enjoy doing it! But unfortunately, 24 hours is all I get, and I need to be wise in my time management, so the blog has to go. :(
Is that a run-on sentence Hannah and Susanna? :)

I don't like being this busy, but it is where the Lord has me right now, and it is just a season for me. When I do have free time, I have other things I would rather do than blog. It just isn't my "thing" anymore!

I'm not going to delete it, (there are alot of events and things cataloged on here!) I'm just not going to post anymore.
Maybe I'll print out some of it, and make it into a book like journal or a scrapbook someday! Wouldn't that be a fun project?

Thank you to all of you who have faithfully checked for my unfaithful posting, and reading and commenting. I loved hearing from you! Look at it this way, now maybe I'll read YOUR blogs more! :P

Yours very affectionately,
~Emily


To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven;

-Ecclesiastes 3:1

A Christmas tree with lights, and a new floor!

One of my favorite Christmas-time sights is our beautiful tree, lit and decorated, and decorated and DECORATED! Our poor tree has so many lovely ornaments, it looks like it might fall over! But we love it, and think it's perfect!

And we all love our angel, but because of a few technical difficulties, she leans forward! Maybe she'll fly this year! :)

Does anyone else have all their Christmas shopping done? I do! And what a relief, it's always so good to have that done.

Dear me, I've been so busy, but I really can't think of anything else to post! But we're doing our annual Christmas cookie baking with my aunt and my grandma, so I'll blog about that!

I hope everyone is having a blessed Christmas season!

~Emily

Christmas is Just Around the Corner!

Hooray! My favorite season is finally upon us. I love Christmas, and everything about it. The music, the decorating, the family and friends, the music, the cookies...I get excited just thinking about it!

My siblings couldn't WAIT to put up the Christmas tree, and today we finally got to do it. But then, (there's always a "but then" in good stories right?) when we went to put the lights on it, only one little string would work! :( Daddy did every thing he could think of, but they are just too old. So the tree part will have to wait until we can get more lights, but there's still the nativity scene and all the other fun stuff to put up!

We decorated every available surface while we listened to everyone's favorite Christmas songs. Let it Snow, and Jingle Bell Rock remain two of our favorites!:)

Whew, What a mess! Decorations, nativity scene pieces, dead strings of lights all over the place!

And then I spilled this sparkle stuff ALL over the floor, Oops. I was wearing socks, and by the time I finished vacuuming up the sparkle, I had found a new meaning for the term twinkle toes!:)

It made us all giggle, and we laughed about twinkle toes for quite awhile!:)

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and that you are all as excited for Christmas as we are!

With Love,

Emily

How Firm a Foundation

Verse 1.

How firm a foundation ye saints of the Lord, is laid for your faith in his excellent word! What more can he say than to you he hath said, To you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?

Verse 4. (my favorite)

"When thro' fiery thy pathway shall lie, My grace a sufficient shall be thy supply. The flames shall not hurt thee I only design, thy dross to consume, and the gold to refine.

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms."

Last night, daddy took me up to Dave's, so I could finally get my new gun! I am so excited to finally have a hand gun again, it felt SO odd not to have one! (My other one is on consignment at Dave's) It was like... missing my right hand, and it was even worse when we'd go shooting!

This gun is will be my carry-gun when I'm 21, and in the meantime will be a target gun. It's also a "pretty gun" (Now we both have "pretty" guns Mrs. Weese!!:) It is a light, silvery lavender color, and I just LOVE the name.

It's called the Lavender Lady. Isn't that just so feminine? :) It's a .38 special, for my fellow gun ladies that read my blog, and hope the weather will be bearable so I can put at least one box of rounds through it on Sunday!

As I type, Eloise has been in her bed snoring like it was going out of fashion! She is so funny, and just now I called her name, look at that sleepy face!

Well I hope you're all having a lovely, windy Thursday!

Love,

Emily

Harvest Party Pictures

Here are some pictures of the harvest party we went to on Friday evening. We had such a wonderful time, and it was lots of fun to dress up in our historical costumes!

I'm sorry the pictures aren't all that great, but the lighting isn't very good for picture taking. :)

We took the pictures in groups according mostly to time period, and all of the ones from my time period I don't have yet, but when I get them I will post them!

From back row, to front row, left to right.

Colonial period:

Ali, Krista, Anna, Isabel, Lydia and Elizabeth

Regency Period:

Hannah and Jessica

All the guys just did a group picture, they were mostly cowboys, but Bradley was a revolutionary war general and there was a civil war costume here and there. And half of the young men weren't even in the picture!

Phil, Zachary, Bradley, Matthew, Isaac, Luke, Carson, Teddy and Joe.

Thank you so much Criss family for putting this FUN night together!

Happy November All!

~Emily Lauren