A Merry Christmas to All!!!

Christmas at the Fryes is very fun.

Christmas at the Fryes can not be out done!

Christmas at the Fryes is a party and a half!

Christmas at the Fryes will make you want to laugh!!

Haha. I am a poem momma! Christmas just does that to me.

Anyway, here is a peek at our Christmas day festivities!

The Frye Kids 15 with dad .

oh...umm...Santa.

I mean Santa.

Dad just stepped out for a bit.



Pretty Joyce



Now Cyrus,isn't there some sort of rule that ones children can not grow bigger than Santa?




Elena's FF5 Toboggan. Now for those who are not as hip as I am that stands for Family Force 5 winter hat.

Stay looking fly, yet warm, this winter with a FF5 Toboggan.



A picture of Alan just because



The food



And more food



A full table



The overflow room for those who were planning on eating ALOT and needed that extra space for expansion.



Tasty!



A dad who only thinks he is going to win against me. Not a chance!



A little suspense.



A chocolaty face



A line of cars



and SO much was not captured on film!!

Polly Pocket action
Tea parties
PS2 game testing
Coloring
and just your general teen boy horsing around.

AND a certain cat (yes,you Nicky!) who decided one of our bowls of salad had a sign (written in cat language of course) that said "cat knock this salad bowl onto the floor and lick off all the cheese from each lettuce leaf because we only wanted the lettuce anyway".


A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS from the Frye household!!

Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

A Little Christmas Eve Action

A little popcorn stringing.



I just love the look of popcorn garland. It looks so old fashion.



Twelve of the kids waiting for The Grinch Who Stole Christmas to start. Umm...I am all for family unity unless it is being packed like sardines in one small room that smells like spaghetti, popcorn,feet, and some other unidentified odors. Needless to say, I skipped this Christmas Eve activity. Sorry kids.



Walmart was giving away free Poinsettias today! Ah, this was my little Christmas gift for myself. Thanks Walmart!!



I hope you are able to get a little sleep!!

I am guessing we will not.

Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

The Eve of Christmas Eve

Two posts in one day!

Now that means there was lots of fun going on today!!!

Actually, the Christmas tree project was a few days ago. I tend to be a little behind with my posts.

BUT here is what you would have found going on if you rang out bell this evening!

Ha! Our friend Stacey A. over at Two Savvy Gals did. By the way, Thank you SO much Stacey for thinking of us!

Anyway, I bought this just beautiful ornament fabric panel this past fall so some of us were working on making ornaments.










umm...one of us napped



Anya and Elena made cookies!





A few kids were watching a dvd, two kids were dog sitting for a few hours, and one child was weight lifting.

That was out Christmas Eve Eve!!!

Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy

Fake is Great!

Jeff grew up with real Christmas trees.

I grew up with artificial Christmas trees.

We have had years of tease banter back and forth about which is best.

Real always won out.

But we usually never had money to actually buy a real Christmas tree.

So many years we were tree-less. Some years we were not,though. If one waits until Christmas eve there are some real cheap trees around...if you do not mind the Charley Brown looking ones or dumpster diving.

The past few years I had secretly prayed for a artificial tree to be passed our way. Finally last year one did!!!!

I was SO booed!!

My answer to prayer was not greeted with a lot of fan fair or rejoicing by the family.

We put it up anyway. Better than another tree-less year, right?

Guess what I heard this year?

Many family members (all who were the biggest scoffers last year) vocalising how nice it is to actually have our artificial tree because we are guaranteed a tree this year!

SO here we are on 'tree day' last week.




How very pretty!



Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy