You can see the new pictures in the Christmas 2009 photo album in the left sidebar.  Click on the link and to enlarge the pictures you can click on one and then click next to go through them.

Adelyn has the best little fun personality.  She says, "Who is it," all the time! Or, "what is it, " and points.  She laughs a deep hard laugh and has a fake one, too.  She knows my nose and her nose, but grabs mine if she can.  She will cuddle when she is tired, but when she is not she is on the go!  Not walking yet, but very close.  you can tell we are having so much fun together!  She wears me out and it is a blessed good time for sure!

Here is Adelyn in the little rocker that my cousin, Billy, had at my grandparent's home. i'm guessing it is over 50 years old at least! Now Adelyn enjoys it!

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My Fresh Find is this hand seeder that we will be needing soon!  If it ever warms up. LOL The snow was pretty big flakes today, but I'm ready for me some Springtime! :O)

Today my Fresh Find are these really cute team squeak shoes for kids!  TOO CUTE!

Well, my arm is re-attached as in I have the computer back.  All installed with Windows 7, I could not be happier with the results!

I cannot even count the number of times I was going to look up something last night and today, add something, work on something and I had to tell myself, “NO”!!!

It is sad that we depend on the computer like we do to exist.  I think my computer is the one thing that would be really hard for me to live without although I enjoy periods away from it…at my choosing! LOL

So, I’m writing this blog from Windows Live Writer and I think it is going to be good.  One of Thai’s finds for me.  He is just so good!

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The snow was beautiful today softly coming down and NOT sticking!!!  I would really love to have Christmas with our daughter and her family this weekend!  :O)

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I spent two hours on the phone with Tracfone today.  Our son and Clinton both have been with them for years.  Well, our son is no longer with them as of today and Clinton won’t be much longer!!!  Oops, too bad TF.  Bad customer service or should I say NO customer service means I move on…hee-hee-hee!

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Pretty much a day of waiting.  I’m not good at that, but God is good in that!  I got a note today that said, “God loves knee-mail.”  Isn’t that right?  Get on my knees and be thankful!  We ARE a blessed people…you & me!

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My Fresh Find is this cute night light cuddly!

Installing Windows 7 so my computer is in Thai land. As in Thai Trinh. LOL I am blogging from my Blackberry. Who would have dreamed we would have this technology? Wow! So much in my lifetime has happened. Crazy!!!

I have a small family.  I grew up with my dad, mom, and my brother.  Although, my brother is 7 years older and for the biggest part of my growing up years I was an "only child."  He was out of the house as soon as he could be.  You know how we are when we are in high school...think the world is calling us? LOL 

My dad died in the late 90s and so now it is my mom, who will be 80 this next month, my brother and me.  Not a big family!

My family celebrates Christmas on Christmas night.  It was a small group this year because the weather limited several getting here.  We missed them.

Here is a picture of our mom from Christmas 2009.  She looks awesome and acts like a woman half her age!!! LOL

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My brother, John, is married to a WONDERFUL saint of a woman, Debby.  Especially putting up with my brother! LOL  Of course, my husband has to put up with me so...there ya go...he is a saint of a man!  We are a part of the "hard headed" Dayton family!

This is my brother, his wife and my mom this Christmas...so glad we could spend it together!

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Our cousin, Janis, and her family spent Christmas with us again this year.  It has been a blessing to see her family grow up.  We should congratulate Beau on passing the Bar.  Kate is next!  Dad, Steve, is surely a proud papa, too!

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We played Bingo, as is our tradition. We talked memories.  It was a fun Christmas night!

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My Fresh Find is this really fun digital music mixing machine for older kids!!!

Adelyn wishes you a merry day from their Wichita Falls motel room on Christmas!

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Cocoa beans at their best!  My Fresh Find is this yummy chocolate!  I need some!!!

In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. (Hebrews 1:1-3)

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As the scripture says, Jesus came to provide purification for our sins. God wants us to be pure. Sad thing is we have these sin thingies that keep taunting us.  Oh, we chose to do wrong.  No one makes us do bad things, wrong things.  The old saying, "the devil made me do it", I laugh at because we have a free will...we just chose devilish things.

The wonderful thing is that Jesus was born pure, lived pure and offers us pureness through his provision.

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Brant drew my name for Christmas.  This is our nephew.  I love those boys, Brant & Brock!  Any-who, he gave me the perfect gift...original art.  Look!

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Love it, love it Brant!  Thank you!  He also gave me the best smelling organic soap from So.A. P.  (South Austin People) so, it is my Fresh Find today!!!  Check their products out!

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Remember the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?  Michael Angelo was our son's favorite character.  We have a picture of Aaron with him that is really cute, but i think he might shoot me if I posted it! :O)  So, I'll post this instead...

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Cowabunga Dudes...an exclamation of rejoicing from the 90s...and we will rejoice at all this snow we have!

It is perfect weather for a little sledding!  Isn't the snow beautiful?  I don't like a white Christmas so much because our kids need to travel to get here, but it is fun to have snow!  This sled was our sons and was used by both our kids.  It sure holds some good memories and deserves a spot in our home!

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MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Adelyn seems happy with her Christmas stranded midway to Ushka's house...

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Now, here is a great sled for you for the next good snow...my Fresh Find!

As I was reading on-line about Christmas I found some interesting tidbits of information.  Did you know that celebrating christmas predates the birth of Christ.  Seems the Europeans have the longest "dibs" on the holiday in the winter solstice, as the beginning of longer days and the rebirth of the sun.

Many other celebrations were recorded through time that fell around this season.  It wasn't until the fourth century that the church decided that Christians needed a December holiday to rival solstice celebrations. Church leaders selected Dec. 25 for the Feast of the Nativity ( A.D. 336).

Throughout history the celebration of Christmas did not always have a good reputation with Christians.  Christmas was actually banned from festivities in the late 1600s. In the late 1800s and through the 1900s, Christmas became a holiday of "old traditions" where the focus was on the real reason for the season.

By the 20th century, we started to see the commercial side of Christmas.  You know...stores selling decorations in October? 

Christmas gift-giving has its roots in the Three Kings' offerings to the infant Jesus. Some countries still celebrate the traditional date of the Magi's arrival -- January 6 or Three Kings' Day -- with a Christmas-like gift exchange. We should celebrate that, too.  Or, we can just give gifts from Christmas through Three Kings' Day!

Was Jesus really born on Christmas Day?  No one knows really.  The Word does not give us that specific, but in Luke 2:8 we read, "And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night." so, it seems that maybe since they were out in the fields at night with their flock that just maybe it was in the spring when the babies were being born.  Does it matter, really?  No.

What does matter is that God created us and loved us so much that he came to us in Jesus and left us with the Holy Spirit.  It is through faith that we accept this without questioning details, knowing that it is for us, his children that all this happened.  I find that AMAZING.

Merry CHRISTmas to you and yours!!!

Read more here: http://christmas.howstuffworks.com/traditions/christmas.htm

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Ugly is the new pretty when it comes to fashion.  My Fresh Find is so ugly that I like them!!!

I love this song and I wanted to share it with you. My best times are my alone times when I am still and grow in God.

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Still by Watermark

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The more I get alone
The more I see I need to get alone more, more
Cause just when I think that I'm alone
Your Spirit calls out to me
And even silence has a song
Cause that's when you come
Sing over me
Still, let me be still

Let me be OK
With the quiet in my heart
Still, I want to be still
I'm so quick to move
Instead of listening to you
Shut my mouth
Crush my pride
Give me the tears
Of a broken life,
Still

Oh this world, it falls around me
And flutters all its beauty in my eyes
But let me choose the solitude
Simplicity has always simply changed my life
Cause even stillness makes me move
Cause that's when my heart
Learns to dance with you

Still, let me be still

Let me be OK
With the quiet in my heart
Still, I want to be still
I'm so quick to move
Instead of listening to you
I'm your child
Tame my heart
Obedience
To me impart
Still

La la la la la, Hold me
La la la la la, Cleanse me
La la la la la, Change me, Oh God

Change me while I am

 Still, let me be still

And know that you are God
And you are always enough
Still, I want to be still

To take all that I am

And simply lift it up
Shut my mouth
Crush my pride
Give me the tears
Of a broken life,
Still

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My  Fresh Find today is fabric. I like the link I've attached...fun.  Then you can make this simple full skirt!!!

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