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The Best Christmas Movies

I love Christmas movies! I sometimes pull them out in August and watch them then :) Today, I’m going to list **some** of my favorite Christmas movies. The Best Christmas Movies… 1. It’s A Wonderful Life My all-time favorite. We watch it every Christmas Eve :) *Sigh* Photo Credit: www.imdb.com 2. Annie (1999 Version) The soundtrack is A-Maze-Ing!!!  PC: www.imdb.com 3. Christmas in Connecticut I love this movie! It’s so funny!!  PC: www.moviepostershop.com 5. Scrooge I love this version of Dickens’… Read more »

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Favorite Holiday Traditions

Christmas Eve is my absolute favorite holiday, even above Christmas! Here’s what we do… 1. At somepoint during the afternoon we bake and decorate Christmas cookies for Santa. 2. We always go to our church’s Christmas Eve service that evening. I love the end of the service when we light our candles and sing Silent Night (my favorite Christmas song). 3. After church, we go and pick up cheese pizza and take it home. 4. We eat the pizzas while… Read more »

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The Best Christmas Books

There are perhaps no days of our childhood lived  so fully as those  we spent with a favorite book. ~Marcel Proust There is nothing as magical as a child curling up in her mother’s lap to hear a Christmas book. Begging to hear just one more story before it is time to go to sleep. Traveling to far off lands found within the beloved pages.Books at Christmas time are even more magical. They spark one’s imagination and spur on the… Read more »

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The Exploding Box

Story Time… Last Christmas Eve, my family and I attended our church’s Christmas Eve candle light service as we do each year. Afterwards, unbeknownst to me, my friend had a scheme to give me the most unforgettable Christmas present I had yet to receive.Somehow, my friend had managed to plan a big plot to deliver a large, ominous, black box to my family and have them place it in the back of our van– without me knowing it. I knew… Read more »

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My Favorite Ornaments

One of my favorite things to do at Christmas time is to look at Christmas ornaments on people’s trees. It’s so cool to see the different ornaments they have collected over the years.So, today I’m going to give y’all a peek at my family’s Christmas tree and some of my favorite Christmas ornaments. Here we go… My Favorite Christmas Ornaments: I like this one because we can plug it into the strings of lights and then the fireplace will light… Read more »

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Christmas Decorations

I always have loved Christmas decorations. I wish we could leave them up all year!For the 2nd day of Christmas, I wanted to give y’all a peak into my home so y’all can see the beautiful decorations my family has accumulated over the years. The Lovely Christmas Decorations… We have two Christmas trees. One with colored lights, one with white lights. I like the one with white lights best. White lights seem more traditional and more Christmas-y to me. Which… Read more »

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I survived my 1st Semester of College!!

…And it’s Christmas Time now! *Whew* Finals were intense. The tests themselves weren’t that bad; I just hated how the only thing to do all week was just studying. That’s it.And all my friends were studying too, so I didn’t want to interrupt their studying to hang out with them. There was nothing else to do. I couldn’t even go to class to pass the time! (And if I was wishing to go to class, you can bet I was bored!)… Read more »

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It’s Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you’re having a wonderful day with family and friends!Today is relaxing for my family. (Saturday we’re going to my Grandparents’ for Thanksgiving with our extended family.) We woke up and watched the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, while eating our traditional Thanksgiving morning oatmeal. Then, we started to watch Miracle on 34th Street. Later today, we’re going to have a Thanksgiving meal, just the four of us. Every year at Thanksgiving, my mom places five kernels of… Read more »

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Jousting Tournament

During my Sophomore year of High School, my English class and I read Ivanhoe. The unit was a blast. My English teacher had the brilliant idea of assigning each student a character in the book. Then, we created blogs and we had daily writing assignments to post on the blogs, and we were required to write in character. It was so much fun! I was Prince John, and I greatly enjoyed being the villain. (This was also a monumental unit… Read more »

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Halloween Timeline

My Halloween Costumes Through the Years… Age 3~ Piglet Age 4~ Piglet again :) Ky was a bumblebee Age 5~ Super Girl and Superman Age 6~ A rubber ducky (from the VeggieTales “Pirates who Don’t do Anything”). Ky is one of the pirates Age 7~ A duck again. Ky is a cowboy Age 8~ A basketball player. Ky is a football player. In the last photo, Ky is joined by his buddy Tay. Age 9~ The Statue of Liberty. Ky… Read more »

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