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sunset on the way home from work to end the year 🙂 i have had such a great time doing this blog! i may not keep up as well as i should most ttimes, but im totally going to continue to do a picture-a-day next year too! not only am i amzed at the pictures ive ended up with, but im also amazed at all that ive done this year! and im so glad i have all of these memories recorded now! 🙂 i hope next year is as memorable as this year has been for me!
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sad 🙁 all my mommy-made christmas cookies and aunt-made chocolate covered pretzels are all gone! they were great while they lasted tho! i still have chocolate covered peanuts though! 🙂
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puzzle time! mom and dad gave james and i a popular mechanics steam engine puzzle for christmas. think the puzzle part of it was for me, but the picture on the puzzle was for james. i started it this evening while i was watching tv. it took me 2.5 hours to separate the edge pieces, put them together, and put together the wording at the top of the puzzle. surprisingly eventhough the puzzle is only 500 pieces, its pretty a challenging puzzle for me. 🙂 HUGE puzzle pieces compared to the pieces of the puzzle i was putting together over christmas at home!
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mom gave me a money bottle that keeps track of the change you put in it. i decided to count all of the nickles and dimes i had already saved and put the times in the bottle. $74+ worth of dimes! and almost $30 worth of nickles. woot woot!
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i always love our christmas tree at home. mom and dad do such a good job of decorating. i still need to find an ornament for mom for this year. we usually try to get a new ornament for every year, but i just couldnt find one that i liked this year….although as i write this, an idea came to mind. ill have to do some looking and see if i can find the one i want. be looking for a picture of the ornament (if and when i find it, lol)
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wonderful christmas! great time with family and great gifts from family (and family friends). so glad i was able to share the holiday with the ones i love 🙂 we had monkey bread for breakfast, which turned out awesome and i cant believe i didnt remember to take a picture of it! mom even made brownies today to as a “happy birthday Jesus” cake 🙂 it was awesome! then we went to my aunts house to do christmas and dinner over there. always a good and interesting time! 🙂
the pic is of one of my christmas prizes. i got a puzzle with 9 pieces, 300,000 ways to put it together wrong, and one way to put it together right….30 minutes or less and i got it together! woot woot!!! imma have to try it again and see if it was a fluke or if im really that good, lol 🙂
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we usually go to midnight mass on christmas even. even though its late, its always a beautiful mass and the church is always decorated so nicely. this is a pic of the nativity scene in the back of the church.
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on the road again… 🙂 always a long, but good time 🙂 on the way home to visit family for christmas! we went to the grocery to get stuff to make chilli for us on christmas eve. i saw this in the produce section and thought only in louisiana is it was funny. real bottle of wine, by the way 🙂
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picture of one of james’ little ones, tyrone, either protecting james’ bags or trying to prevent him from leaving….or maybe he just wants to go with? who knows 🙂 just thought it was cute
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mom started angel pockets with me when i was very little for the 25 days of christmas, a prize for every day. now we both do angel pockets for each other. its always always always fun to open my prize for the day! these are a couple of the ones ive received this year, and as you can tell spike is very interested in my prizes too!