2013
Seven Seven-Sided Paper Stars and a String of White Lights
Artichoke Arrangement
The Spy and Baby coloring.
The Spy and Baby
He also cut out paper letters to spell “Happy New Year” so we’ll hang those up tomorrow!
Decorating AFTER Christmas?! We really live on the wild side around here.
Weee!
Ready…
Weee!
Who’s Walking Who?
Sheba (my good friend’s dog) demonstrating a key rule of fashion: one can never have too much animal print.
Dexie’s Little Cousin, Magnolia
We visited Shaw Nature Reserve today.
Beautiful day
An absolutely beautiful day!
Historic “Bascom” House
Inside the house they had tea, coffee and hot chocolate. Plus lots of photographs, displays of historical artifacts (the Spy loved the arrow heads) and we got a bunch of nice pamphlets (on butterflies, hummingbirds, native Missouri landscaping and a tree ID guide) perfect for reading indoors on a much colder winter day (it was 55 today!)
Fuzzy buds
Frozen leaves
Tiny frozen pond
About ponds in Missouri
I loved the look of these ferns
Lovely bronze color
Another view
So many different seed pods and spent blooms
Sea of grass
Golden grass
Little silver dried flowers
I spy my sister
Spy Sister?
Aunt Spy? She needs a Spy Garden name. haha
Dreamy
Baby and Smoochie
The Spy
Empty Pod
Little Yellow Seed
Woods
Some type of nightshade? Gooseberries? Ground cherries?
Who’s that?
Always love a good deer fence! (since Spy Garden has its very own deer fence)
Onward!
A sod-house
Beautiful View
Reminds me of a Rothko painting
Landscape
Grassy Path
Gray Grasses
A teepee!
Teepee Top
Spy Garden Family Shot
Golden chevrons
Weeee! (Baby and me)
Yellow and Blue
We can’t wait to go back!
For more info on Shaw Nature Reserve click here. These pictures are nice but they don’t even do the place justice, it is gorgeous!
Christmas Eve:
Joseph and a little lamb
Two little lambs
After the Christmas Eve Service. The kids all did a great job!
Building a fire
Very cozy
My sister and her puppy
Toasty Warm
Christmas morning:
First look!
Thankfully Santa didn’t eat all of the cookies!
Baby on her new rocking horse
HAhahaha
Mmmmmmmm
A white Christmas (inside anyways!)
Gingerbread Church
I love building with gingerbread and royal icing!
I tried to make stained glass for the windows with sugar but it was a little thick so I just piled it next to the house instead
The “stained glass” is very yummy (hard candy caramel) and the gingerbread is tasty too (yes we will definitely be eating this delicious church!)
Another view. The bell in the steeple is made from the hard candy caramel.
A very old ornament; one of my favorites!
Merry Christmas!
