13 Goals For 2013

After some thought and prayer I have decided on these 13 goals to strive for in 2013-

1) Read the New Testament through every month. 

Pete and I do this together every morning. We have accomplished this once already but our hope is to read through 12 times this year.

2) Read the Old Testament through 1 time. 

This pretty much equals 2 1/2 chapters a day. Not bad at all!

3) Crochet at least 4 blankets for the Truman hospital. 

4) learn to knit and make 4 small projects 

5) have 6 $30 dinner parties 

6) switch blog over to .com

7) apply for all adoption grants and loans possible

8) fund raise for adoption ( make a written plan for fundraising) 

9) become even more active and deliberate in Landon's schooling everyday. By this I mean- don't just get through a text book but seek to actively TEACH at every opportunity. 

10) Go on at least 1 date a month with my husband

11) redecorate our bedroom 

12) redecorate Landon's bedroom

13) organize the craft room 

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The Failed Blogger

Well here we are- Dec. 25! And I failed completing my challenge to myself to complete 100 Christmas projects in 100 days. I had to stop my plans about 13 days ago because of a lot of  unexpected actives that came up. We had many hospital visits, a funeral, and family business to attend to that was completely unplanned.
I am not sorry I started this project! I had so much fun attempting all of the crafts and projects!  And I got so much done! I was sad that I couldn't finish, if for no other reason than that I have not exactly been in the Christmas mood the last 2 weeks.
I plan on taking a relaxing fun filled day with my family as we stop to remember Jesus Christs birth, and that he came to die to save us from our sins and give us peace with God!
I have plans to continue this blog with new challenges and ideas at the beginning of the new year! If you have any ideas for projects, crafts, or a fun series let me know!
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Day 86: Hot Chocolate Bar

We had a blast at our annual youth Christmas party at church. This year we treated the kids to a hot cholocolate bar! We had all different kinds of marshmallows, candies and spices to add in, peppermints to stir with and homemade hot chocolate!

Josh wanted to make sure he was in the picture :)

Pete told me that people love gummie bears in hot chocolate just to bother me but I bought them anyway.

Here is the link for this awesome crockpot hot chocolate but be warned it is VERY sweet! Pin It

Day 85: Wooden Nativity Set

I am FINALLY able to write a blog!! The last 2 weeks have been like none others! Please continue to be patient with me while I get our lives straightened out again! This won't be very detailed but here it is.
The wooden Nativity set was supposed to be made with blocks of wood and silhouettes of the nativity characters. I couldn't find any printable silhouettes that were the correct size of the blocks. So we ended up printing these awesome coloring pages and Landon and I had an afternoon of coloring! Then we cut out all of the characters and mod poged them on painted blocks. We just used the left over blocks from the Christmas mod podge sayings gluing some of them together to make them the right size.

Landon has had a lot of fun playing with these! Pin It

Project List: Week 13

I accidently blogged about personalized roasting sticks last week instead of the crochet dog sweater so that project will go on this weeks list. And the list is...
Crochet Dog Sweater
Block Nativity Set (mine is much different than this but this is the idea)
Ruffled Apron
Lumps of Coal
Fire Crackers (crackers)
Tulle Christmas Tree
Pumpkin Cheesecake Bites

I bet you are all busy busy on your Christmas activities by now! Have fun!





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Day 84: Coffee and Cookies

One of Landon's activities on his "25 days count down" was to take coffee and cookies to the library workers. This was a real fun activity that Landon and the workers enjoyed!
We started with cold bottled coffee and some large store bought cookies.

We pulled out 4 sandwich bags and placed 2 cookies in each bag. Then, we tied the bags around the coffee bottle with Christmas ribbon. 

 

This is not a very good picture but you get the idea. After we tied the cookies on all 4 coffees we placed them back in the coffee box for Landon to carry.

 

He had a great time being the delivery man and telling everyone merry Christmas!

(and checking out a movie for later)

 

Needless to say Ms. Ann (above) and the other library workers were very excited to receive Landon's gift! This should definitely be a tradition!

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And the Winner is...

Today was the last day to enter our drawing for a Christmas box of homemade goodies from this blog. After entering all the names of those who "liked" our Facebook page I drew a name and the winner is...

Jessica P.

Congrats! You will be contacted via Facebook

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