Monday, December 27, 2010

Praying for a Miracle...

Are you hoping for any miracles come the New Year?  This is a shameless plug, but we are!!  If you feel like adding something to your prayers, add us!

We need a renter for our beautiful house in Texas!!  Spending $3000 in mortgage payments (between both houses) is killing us....and is about to start killing our credit!  So...

This year we're praying for a miracle!


Sunday, December 26, 2010

Merry Christmas!!

We've had a great holiday season--full of family fun, sparkling lights, shopping, gifting, and thoughts of the Savior.  I'm ready to take down all my Christmas stuff tomorrow and get my house back in order--and try out and set up all my new things~!  Thanks to everyone for your love, generosity, and the great family traditions that make this time of year so special!

Extended Craven Family Christmas Party.  Good food, good company, traditional nativity, spirit and fun!





Our Christmas tree, Harold the 4th.  (WAY better looking than last year, but still just as dead! :)


Christmas Eve with the Woods.  Traditional mexican feast (we have MASTERED tamales' around here!!), and a new tradition...go to a movie at the Theater.  We loved Tangled--but couldn't get the girls to look at me for a picture!

Opening our Christmas Jammies!

Christmas morning.  Katelyn woke up, came upstairs, saw her stocking and said, "Oh! Santa came to our house!!"  Love the morning hair!




Mike got his remote controlled airplane!!  It crashed, but that was to be expected.  This is the face of one happy man!


Just a quick overview--if you've got better pictures, send them my way please!!

Thursday, December 23, 2010

It came, it went, call me updated...

Here's the quick run-down of what you may have missed....

Katelyn was a princess, Josh has BYU football player down!  We had a ward party, family parties, trick-or-treating, and general Halloween festivities.



Katelyn and Max--her ward party date.

I thought Mike was dead one morning in the Farmington Canyon.  He wasn't.  He did get some good pictures though!



My Grandmother passed away.  It was an emotional week, one filled with memories, Spirit, crying, and goodness.  Love my family, love my Grandma. I love that yesterday, on her wedding anniversary, she got to share it with Grandpa.



We went and saw Dad, Ky, and Cousin Brent perform in Savior of the World--fabulous show!

(Beards are fake...in case anyone was wondering! :)

Thanksgiving was yummy!  We celebrated Grandma's life with all her traditions--the BEST stuffing (even Mike agreed), jello, my FAVORITE rolls, and banana cream pie!  Mike fried a turkey--just as good as people say it is!  Baked, played, cried, slept, and chilled all day.  It was great!




Cute hair--a bonus of having a fabulous hairdresser in attendance!

I feel sad for the families that don't make these beauties on Thanksgiving...


Katelyn and Josh get along famously these days--laughing, running, playing.  It's fabulous! (Contrary to Josh's face, Katelyn is his favorite play buddy!)

 Mike and Katelyn discovered  a flight simulator on the computer...many an hour has been spent flying at our house, and I know what Mike asked Santa for!

We went and saw the Temple Square Christmas lights with the Woods and Grandma.  Josh makes a cute snowman--Katelyn makes a great grumpy one! But, cousin Aly soon arrived and all was well in Katelyn land!




And that, my friends, brings us current--or at least mostly!  Merry Christmas!!

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Anybody else think it's time for a new post?

I'm thinking it's time for a new post...how about you? :)

I bought more storage space, so one is coming soon...I hope! :)



Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Saw this on a friends blog...

I laughed right out loud when I saw this! Hope it helps get you to Friday!


Amen!

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Okay...this is cute!

Heard about this site and tried it out tonight...pretty cute! You input all the information and they generate a message from Santa for your child.  (And it's one of those times that I'm glad my husband has such strong opinions about naming our kids.  'Katelyn' is pretty hard to mess up!  No silent q's or extra y's in her name!)


Video Here


I know it's not about the real meaning of Christmas, but isn't part of the magic of Christmas the part where little kids believe?

Enjoy!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Christmas Card 2010...Have you ordered yours yet? Get an extra treat when you do!










With Love Chartreuse Christmas Card
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View the entire collection of cards.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Free Christmas Cards...

Does anybody else LOVE Christmas cards?  And, while the e-mail versions are good, appropriate, and cost effective, I still love getting actual cards, in my hand, to read and to hang up.  This year, I've already started buying and stockpiling stamps so I can send mine out without a budget crunch!
And so, in the realm of cost...I found this GREAT deal!  

50 Free Christmas Cards to Bloggers from Shutterfly.  

Anybody else love Shutterfly?  I do! :)  In fact, another Shutterfly giftcard is HIGH on my Christmas wishlist...hint, hint!  I haven't perused the options yet, but I will soon and then, come Christmas, you'll be seeing great Christmas cards from yours truly!


I haven't actually used Shutterfly before for my Christmas Cards.  Usually I make up my own and get them printed at Walmart...but believe you me, I've always wanted to.  So cute.  So simple.  So many choices and variations that mine is bound to be unique--(not to mention it's MY own pictures)!


You can check out their options HERE!


In the past, and currently, I use Shutterfly for books and photo collages. Come to my house and you'll see them all over Katelyn's room--one from each year.    I got a shutterfly giftcard for my birthday last year and used it to make 2 books about our time in Texas.  They sit on my coffee table with pride.  Come on over and you can check them out!


Does my post sound like an infomercial?  Well, it is, of sorts! Check out how you can get this same deal by clicking HERE.

Enjoy! 



(Still haven't purchased more space yet...pictures will come at some point!)

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Deals, deals, deals!

Check out these deals...Christmas is coming (and I don't know about you, but my purse isn't so fat this year!)



Merry Christmas!

Monday, November 1, 2010

Halloween 2010

We had a fun Halloween this year, and like everybody else, we had party after party after party.  You would think it was Christmas!  We enjoyed our ward Chili Cook Off and Trunk-or-Treat (Katelyn is turning into quite the little flirt...she prefers boys over girls and everyday I hear, "_____________ (fill your latest boy here: Max, Bryson, Michael, Owen...) is my FAVORITE friend!")

Katelyn had a preschool Halloween party and loved it--we went Trick or Treating upstairs to each of the individual bedrooms. It was so cute!

And lastly, we went Trick or Treating on Saturday night--but not in the rain and coldness, no, not us!  Wanna hear the best secret ever? Dicks Grocery does trick or treating...warm, free candy, and quick--in about 7 minutes we got 40 houses worth of candy.  Although our car died in the parking lot, this is a tradition we'll be doing each year!

Okay so...pictures coming.  Has anyone else run out of storage space on your blog? Apparently, I just hit the magic amount--!  I get to buy more storage....yippee! :)  But, seeing how I'm home sick, laying down with no desire to move, I'm going to have to wait until I get the energy to go find my wallet!  Check back! :)

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