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PK seems to he hogging the bloglight lately. Not really her doing though. For her birthday I promised that we'd shop online for something and finally got around to it last week. Today that gift arrived and her mother brought her by after school to pick it up. This Pegasus is hugable. It is a soft plastic with a rigid, poseable inner structure. I think she's happy with her late birthday gift.

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The other day when my little princesses were gathering up to go home I looked up from my desk to see the younger princess laden for her journey. I wish my eye could have captured the picture I saw because the photo below doesn't quite do it. What came to my mind is that she was preparing to head into 2010 on a wonderful journey, just beginning to create memories of what will hopefully be many,

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Back in July of last year a Princess Tea was held in honor of The Princess's birthday. When their Majesties, King Allen and Queen Christine, received The Princess, His Majesty the King presented her with a gift. She did not know at the time but this gift contained Thank You notes. Among the many lessons that were taught that day she also learned about giving a proper "Thank You" to show

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Winter has come over us here in the heartland. We've had a couple snow days... ...actually, one was at night. I woke around 4am and looked out the window, everything was white. By noon the next day it had all thawed. This latest snow cover isn't very deep... ...but it's sticking around longer. Baby, it's COLD outside. At least the wind hasn't been blowing to terribly. I invited the granddaughters

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At the Christmas gathering my mother handed me this obviously handmade Christmas card... ...very cute Santa with cut pieces of construction paper and other parts notched out of the card itself. But what was written inside is what was REALLY interesting... I am not posting this to voice any type of political statement or opinion, I just found it interesting that this could easily have been written

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For our Christmas gathering we decided to have snack foods instead of a sit down dinner type of meal. This being said, there was no shortage of food. I provided the sandwiches in the background (recipes in previous posts) and the cheese quesadilla wedges on the front platter with the two Tex Mex's in the middle. Lots of finger food that the kids love to eat. Below in the slow cookers are cheese

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I thought my guacamole, cream cheese & turkey mix looked a bland. It obviously needed black olives. Here's the two mixes the next day, side by side. They could be served in any number of ways. Rolled up on tortillas or placed out in bowls surrounded by crackers. I spread them on wheat bread. I wasn't going for 'fancy' so I didn't remove the crusts. And I stacked them as tightly as I could get

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Finished up my Christmas shopping yesterday and got all my presents wrapped. It's a short stack of presents this year... ...but that's because we give out more money cards nowadays than actual presents. With so many choices of things to buy it's much easier to just give them money and let them buy what they want rather than have to return something they might already have had or even gotten two

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For our Golden Wheat AHSGR Christmas party I mixed up cream cheese with turkey and some other ingredients. I didn't have a specific recipe, I just got online to see what kind of mixtures I could find and what the main ingredients were. I had many requests for my 'recipes' so I promised I would write a blog post the next time I prepared them. I was thinking seasonal colors when I looked for

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The Princess had another basketball game yesterday but it was away and I did not attend. Instead I had her brother and sister for the morning and her parents took her. She came home with a teammate so her mom and dad could go shopping so I had all three. Another grandson arrived around 2pm. At suppertime I brought their food out to the studio where they were playing games with K-monster helping

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OK, so this isn't really Santa's workshop and those aren't elves. But they are working on Christmas crafts/presents. These pictures were taken last week in my studio while the grandchildren were painting and watching a video. The studio isn't completely finished yet. Parts of the loft and ceiling are still needing wallboard and it all needs to be painted. Then I need to get my shelves built. In

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Saturday the 5th of December was the Princess granddaugher's first basketball game of the season. It was also her sister's birthday which is why I am only now getting these pictures posted. The game was in the morning and was an away game. Someone fouled her and she had a free shot... she missed but wasn't too far off. They didn't win but they did score. K-monster's first game was on the 3rd. He

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It is the opinion of many members that there is just as much 'food' at our Christmas party snack table as there is at our other meetings with covered dish dinners. I would like to point out the little wedge sandwiches just past the bright green bowl. These are cream cheese sandwiches that I made without using any particular recipe. To my surprise many people wanted to know what the ingredients

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Today is Dad's birthday. He would have been 84 years old today. Dad, I love you and miss you.

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Last Saturday was PK's Birthday party. Each of these balloons contained money. I told her she should wait till the wouldn't float anymore before going after the money. Just to make sure and hang on to them when she heads home. The birthday girl and a friend were deeply engrossed in a movie. But the boys were outside with the Nerf guns, a favorite past time at this house. First was playtime and

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The Kindergarten through 5th grade concert was the other night and my son's three children were performing. PK is in Kindergarten this year. See her standing in the first row center below? His one son (I'm still working on a nickname for him) is in 3rd grade this year. That's him on the center top row in the picture below. I really like the song they were singing here, "Children Go Where I Send

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I had never made pizza completely from scratch before but I was inspired by another blogger to give it a go. She's vegetarian so I don't keep on hand the same ingredients that she uses, but I was inspired none the less. While my pizza dough was making in the bread machine (I substituted 1/2 c. bread flower for 1/2 c. whole wheat). I started cooking tomatoes for the sauce. Since I had more yellow

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When I was a teenager my room was in the basement. I liked it down there because it was like being in a cave. The windows were small so they didn't let in a lot of light and the temperature didn't vary greatly. When I left home dad did some remodeling. The basement windows needed work because they leaked sometimes. When they took out the old wood and wallboard he found some papers folded up in a

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This year we all went to mom's and spent the several hours cleaning out the garage. This was one day that we knew everyone could get together to do this. Mom has no use for all dad's large tools and all she really needs there is what someone might need for minor/emergency repairs, plus some gardening tools. There were also some tools and other things in the house that mom will not use that was

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It's been a year of highs and lows. I've had a difficult time getting back into posting to my blog, or doing many other things as far as that goes. In September I lost my father and there's a void that I'm still in the process of learning how to deal with. I am forever thankful to have been born into the family that I was fortunate to be blessed with. I could not have dreamed of better parents.

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Saturday was Halloween and K-Monster's birthday is a couple days prior so my daughter held his birthday party so they all could go trick or treating afterward. New decorations this year was the giant black pumpkin and black cat whose head went back... ...and forth. There was the ghoul in the old pickup truck, the bones on that dash light up and what's left of the old spider they had built several

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FALL MEETING and Election of OfficersSunday, October 18, 2009 - 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.1:00 p.m. to 1:30, gathering and registration; 1:30-2:30 potluck dinner2:30 to 4:30 p.m., program: Immanuel Lutheran Church909 South Market, WichitaCome enjoy a unique program at our annual Fall meeting. The meeting will include Election of Officers and a presentation of Wheat Weaving by Martha and Marie Voth of

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Does your family take coffin pictures? Some families don't. I remember dad telling me that he had an uncle that didn't believe in having his picture taken, something about graven images. But dad had seen a picture of this same uncle in his coffin, the only picture ever taken of him. On the Tuesday evening before the funeral the family gathered at the mortuary for the official viewing. Dad looked

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Heinrichs, Harold “Harry” C., peacefully joined heavens choir Thursday, September 10. Harold was born December 13, 1925 in Kirk, Colorado to Cornelius P. and Helena (Klassen) Heinrichs. He was the middle boy of five brothers and a little sister. At home Harold learned the qualities of Christ's love that carried him throughout his life. He also learned the joy of song and fellowship with friends

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