Collage of 2010 Christmas

Here are some brief moments in time of the Holiday Season 2010,

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Katlin, Dallas, Ariel.

Ariel's 25th birthday dinner at Cafe Trio

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Mom's grave..dad really enjoys sending mom our love

...via setting balloons free.

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Celebrating Juana's b-day in December.

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The traditional puzzle

(This year, one of Park City, Utah)

(We missed Katlin helping on this one.)

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Great afternoon snowshoeing with two men I love.

(the swede & brother Reed)

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The family on Christmas Eve.

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DeVry women at our Christmas lunch

(look how young they are!)

(Harvest restaurant Thanksgiving Point)

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Shopping at "The Gateway"...(Sur La Table)

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Four years with these fun and interesting women.

(Bookends -Book Group)

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Joy To The World

Christmas is about the Saviour and his great gift to

the world, his life and his mission and perfect

example of love to all man kind.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!

My Little Friend

Her name is Zarriah

She is Justina's daughter (my co-heart at work).

I have known Zarriah for over a year now and she is

such a cute child and very inquisitive.

She came with her parents to the Halloween "Defright Night"

at my home,

she was..

Neytieri from the Avatar Movie.

I let the children pick their very own pumpkin from my pumpkin patch

and she seemed to have loved that experience.

This week I got call from Zarriah (unbeknown est by her mom) asking me if

I had a..."Christmas tree patch?"

I had to smile...I told her that I did not, but that the

swede and I would work on that next spring...

(maybe we could plant a few pines in the side yard.)

Zarriah, I invite you to be the very first person

to cut a Christmas tree from my "patch"!!!

You are my favorite friend!

Dallas is BACK!!

(Dallas is far right)

She 's Back...

..the almost 16 year old returns home after having a 3 month respite in Houston

from her crazy parents and rehabilitation from soccer injury.

1.She is amazed how cold it is in Utah

2. So happy to be with her friends.

3. missed her grammy.

4. cna't wait to drive again

5. loves her new La Roca Soccer wear.

6. plans for moving in the basement and creating a new bedroom.

Sabuda Pop up Card

Here is your very own to make....Robert Sabuda Reindeer Card!!

Click here for three great templates and instructions. Aren't you excited to make your very first pop up card at "Martha" Holiday Central.

Let the count down begin...

10 days until Christmas!!

Burrowing in...

..for the winter of 2010.

One of the ways I have found to embrace the cold white winters of Utah is to...

have a space where I can go and

be creative, listen to music and do

things that I would normally not do during the spring and summer months.

The" swede "becomes my HANDYMAN!!

Hey girls, gather round

Listen to what I'm

putting down

Whoo baby, He's

my handyman

He's not the kind to use a pencil or rule

he is handy with

love and I'm no fool

He fixed my broken heart,

I know that he truly can..

If your broken heart should need repair

Than he is the

man to

see

He'll whisper sweet things, you tell all your

friends

They'll come

runnin' to him.

Here is the main

thing he wants to say...

I'm busy 2

4 hours a day

I fix broken hearts, I know that I truly can

Come-a, come-a, come-a, come-a, come, come

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Come-a, come-a, come-a, come-a,

come, come,

They'll come runnin' to me.....

(James Taylor)

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This year he put up peg boards so that all my tools

have an organized place to go, when I am finished using them.

He replaced all the old fashoined christmas light with LED

ones so we could say that we are trying to go GREEN!

Energy burning ones on the left and the LED "Green" lights on the right.

....on to other holiday projects!