The Day After Christmas Party

It was the day after Christmas and all through my house

we were cleaning and cooking for :

A Party of Hill Cousin's...

We had a festive Mexican dinner of tamales, rice,

beans, enchilada, chips, salsa, salads and yummy desserts.

(sorry my pictures did not turn out of the food.)

..in this picture,(left to right) is the youngest grand child Ally,

Jeana(my sister)Nina (a cousin) and my father.

Cousins: Leslie, Angie, and Gary

Here is my Uncle Sheril (my mother's twin brother)

He is the patriarch of our Hill Family.

Cousins: (left to right) Jeff, Kara, Diana, and Von

More cousins: (left to right) Tracy, Liz, Nicole, Adam and baby Evie

Aunts and Uncles: (left to right) Aunt Ann, Uncle Sheril, Aunt Kathy,

Uncle Richard, Aunt Vicki

more cousins...Christopher, Tracy, Mark and my dad

I could not have asked for a more special time to eat,

drink, and mingle with all these wonderful people.

I love them all...(and all those that weren't present!)

The Christmas Card

It's time to get the Christmas card ready and mailed out.

Every year this is a love-hate thing with me.

This is really the "swede's thing...

He loves to micro manage this undertaking and frankly,

- more power to him-

Dallas' friend took these photo's last Sunday when

there was a heavy thick fog hanging

over our yard, it was in the mid 20's!

I think it added to the imagery.

Wishing you all a heavenly/earthly

MERRY CHRISTMAS

From

Joel, Melanie, Katlin, Ariel & Dallas

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DeVry Holiday Lunch

Recently I posted on my Facebook status,

that my company holiday party would be a potluck luncheon.

I think my post came over as negative, not that I was disappointed

that we were not going to a restaurant or some activity to

celebrate the season, it was because the mood in

the office had taken on a very somber atmosphere.

I wasn't sure if this lunch would be a happy one?

But thanks to Sarah, who is positive and

a happy person, our luncheon outcome was successful.

Sarah is our campus Career Service Director,

she is the one who helps students find

a job in this "hard to find a job" environment.

Here is the set up of our lunch.

Appetizers, salads, potatoes, ham, roasted chicken, desserts.

Can you tell by this picture the

different personality types I work with?

Here is the Sandy, Utah DeVry University Staff (minus one).

HaPpY Holidays!!

Table Top Tree

The inspiration for my table top tree came

from a recent Martha Stewart segment.

This Birch tree was made by one of

Martha's craft directors; Hannah Milman

I love how she used the Martha Stewart "Woodland" line of ornaments.

She had availability to fresh moss..

(living in Utah, I don't have that available

to me in the nurseries this time of year.)

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This is how is how mine turned out.

A few months ago the swede and I

found a downed Aspen,

we used a log from our cuttings and I gathered

blue spruce limb and red berries from my dad's yard.

We drilled holes in the trunk and anchored it to a base.

I found the tin planter at a thrift store for $2.00

The bulbs around the base are narcissus(paper whites).

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The picture below is a star I made out of

milled wood sticks glued together.

I hot glued juniper limbs on it to give it a more earthy look.

Tis the Season!

Christmas Past

It is fun to look through old photo's,

you just never know what you'll find and when you

do there is more to the photo than just people's pictures.

This photo is circa: 1963 (or there about.)

It looks like Christmas time.

This is me and my siblings playing a game

(on the left back-notice I am picking a bowl of nuts)

(check out the back right of picture to see the game)

SKUNK

SKUNK was played with these instructions:

DESCRIPTION
Each player rolls two dice as many times as desired during a turn, earning points
equal to what is rolled on that turn. A player passes the dice at any time. If one
skunk is rolled, then points earned on that turn are voided and if two skunks are
rolled, then all accumulated points from all turns are voided. Penalty chips are a
part of this game too. The first player to get 100 points or more wins.

I must have been around 5 or 6 years old.

I don't remember playing this game...but I love looking at

the fabric of the table cloth and the awesome

wallpaper we had in our home.

I hope to post a few more nostalgic Christmas photo's.