Another Christmas Project!

I am SO behind with the fun Christmas projects I wanted to do with the kids this year. It is almost Christmas. I just need a few more weeks! At least I am not embarrassed to continue our Christmas projects into the month of January...

Well at least we did our clove and orange ornaments this evening. Actually these cute little Clementines were on sale so I thought they would be perfect!

Our supplies. I greatly underestimated how many cloves we would need. Oops. No time to get more. We will make do.



Odell(9), Naomi(8),Grace(6),Josh(9),and Anya(8)



Anya,Joel, Ekie(9), Lily






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A Very Busy Day!

Today was a very busy day!

It started with a children's Christmas program at church



and then in the afternoon was time for our

5th Annual Frye Caroling Party!

I stupidly forgot to take pictures of our actual caroling party so here are a few random before pictures.

Picture of the chairs all ready for our caroling guests I took last night



Before the guests came Lily was eyeing the treats as I set them out on the table




We had a lot of fun and a lot of people came to carol,visit,and eat! Mrs. Shaffer took this picture of some of the carolers.



There was a group of us who stayed back in the warmth of our house to chat and eat. So those of you who are not fond of the cold or caroling come anyway next year! Stay in the warm house with me and the food!


And a friendly note to the neighbors: please answer your doors next year!

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Nothing Like the Smell

of cloves and oranges around Christmas time.

I thought I could sneak in a few minutes of time alone to make a sample of an orange and clove Christmas ornament that some of the kids would be making later this month. I did not want anyone watching or 'helping' because I did not want the project to be not as exiting when the time came to do the project with the group. Well, it seems that Joel and Lily have a 'sense' that I want to be left alone for a bit and go hunting for me. In the end though, how could I refuse the help of two eager little children!

Joel working hard



Joel working hard and Lily being cute.



Anya (8)snuck in to see where Joel and Lily disappeared to and just in time for a picture of our sample ornament.



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Happy 45th Jeff!!

You are a great husband and father!!

We love you!!!

You work hard and sacrifice so much for us!

You deserve way more than we can give...

But we hope you had a special day anyway!!!



A few cooks hard at work stuffing shells for Jeff's birthday meal

Alan (13)



Joel (6) and Lily (2)



A very hungry but happy guy!


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A Few More Random Christmas Projects

Here were two more Christmas projects we did earlier this month. I do not have pictures of the kids actually making these ornaments but thought a sampling of their efforts was worthy of sharing.


This first one we do every year. It is the good old egg carton bells. I think we have a zillion on our tree just from this year. I decided to toss most of last years to make room for this years bells.




This second project turned out very pretty. Christmas start ornaments.I think this picture features Grace's,Ekie's, and Nolan's.





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A Camera Test

Our two cameras broke within a week or so of each other last spring which left us with a whole summer and fall of picture less days! Finally we scratched up a little extra to get a new one. It is not a top of the line model more like bottom of the line but a camera none the less so I will not complain. We actually remembered our yearly reports to AoH will be do soon and the reports need pictures to accompany them so a camera was moved to the top of our need list.

Here are our first test pictures

Goofy dad



Lily (2) wearing a jelly face quite well



My two wild ones Lily and Joel (6)



Nolan (11) Very handsome eyes on this boy




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Our First Project

Here is our first Christmas project of the season!


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Our Countdown to Christmas Begins!

Here we go with another Christmas countdown! The year has gone very fast!

Just a little background~ every day in December up until Christmas day Jeff puts a little treat in a paper cone for each of us. This year I decided little stockings would be better than the paper cones. The paper cones kept ripping. We could also use these little each year. I also thought it would be cute to hang the little stockings like this instead of our mini tree.



Hey, it seems my little stocking is missing! That Lily seems to think she has two stockings of treats...Hers and mine!
Good thing she is so cute!

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A Frye Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Not bad for a phone photo is it?



As you might figure I was the photo taker.

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Testing

I've been computerless since May.What started out as a summer blog break has lasted much longer than just the summer because our computer issues. Well since we still do not have a computer and might not for a while longer, I thought I would try blogging from my phone. I lost my password for my A Patchwork Mommy blog so I will use this old blog of mine for now. So far I am finding this phone blogging a little hard but maybe I will get used to it. I wonder if I can figure out how to post pictures... Well off to iron everyones clothes for church. Warmly,A Patchwork Mommy