My mother-in-law, Rozanne Priebe, is an amazing artist.  I’m so lucky because I have many of her original pieces of art.  My favorites are her Santas.  Please take a few moments to look at the pictures below.  These are just a few of the Santas from her artistic imagination.  I love each one equally.  A […]

Displaying our Dickens Village each year is quite a chore.  A few years ago we decided that it should be displayed above our kitchen cabinets. It looks beautiful there, but it’s no easy feat to get it there.  The one good thing that comes of all of this work is that the tops of my […]

My grandma Grace had so many talents!!  One of them was knitting.  She made sweaters for us when we were little.  Grandma made us personalized Christmas stockings.  I can’t image the time she put into making these.  I love pulling these out every year knowing that this was a very special gift she made for […]

I know most sane people have one, possibly two Christmas trees in their homes.  I think we all know that I am not sane when it comes to Christmas.  I HAVE FIVE TREES!!!  The tree here is the tree in my family room, the one I look at the most.  It holds my dearest ornaments, […]

For all of you who have taken their children to see Santa, you know that it can be a blessing or a curse.  For us it was a curse more that it was a blessing.  Cameron wasn’t sure about sitting on Santa’s lap.  This picture is when Cameron was four – this was a success! […]