December Fun and Some White Stuff

Hola and Happy December!

front yard lamp post

LITTLE BIT OF SNOW. We are starting out the month with a dusting of snow this morning! I took a couple of pictures. Just light snow, not too much today, but enough to tell you it's December :)

raspberry bush in backyard

CHRISTMAS BREAKFAST. We had a fun weekend, with a Christmas party/pancake breakfast at the church on Saturday morning. FIRST it was a challenging feat of spreading cords all around the whole gym and beyond, to accommodate all the griddles and waffle irons going. After tripping a few circuits, they did manage to do it!

There were amazing selections of different types of pancakes -- blueberry, coconut, even chocolate chip and mini MandM's. Also fancy types of waffles, with tons of toppings!

Then there was hot chocolate bar...you could add peppermint, candy bar bits, sprinkles...the table was full of options!

ELF spaghetti (Internet photo)

Of course, there was the 3-year-old who combined the food on the breakfast table with the chocolate bar ingredients...she brought back a pancake that looked like when ELF (movie) dressed up his spaghetti! There were sprinkles and candy AND syrup on top of her pancake. Her mother's gag reflexes kicked in, I think. She said, "We are not eating that..." The poor child was very distraught.

NYC reflection

JOB SEARCH. Frank has interviews in NYC today. The job would be in Waltham, just 2 towns over from us, so we're hoping. This is about his 4th round with this company, and would be an interesting opportunity for him. Crossing fingers!

NYC pigeons

He has also had a couple of phone interviews with other companies (in Boston and Cambridge, MA) and recruiters the last few days, and tomorrow.

We thought it would be really slow between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and we have been happy to be wrong about that! It would be SO great to get a new job this month. (I know...just like we've said every month! Ha. Thanks for keeping us in your prayers :) )

PUZZLE TIME. We're re-discovering our games and puzzles. It's fun to just play a quick game as a 15-minute breather or part of date night sometimes. Here's a puzzle Frank pulled out yesterday. The Grand Canyon is so amazing!

Christmas 2005

summer 2016

YOUTH DANCE. Kara had an 'ugly sweater' dance at the church in Belmont (30 minutes away) last weekend. She took a sweater but I told her it wasn't ugly enough :) :) I didn't get a picture before she zipped out the door but here are some pics of all 3 kids, I've just been browsing through.

NEW AWNING. And, here's a picture of the awning we had put on, as the final piece of the hail damage renovation. It's just for shade in the summer, stretches out about 10 feet. (The old one was faded, kind of a puke green, and torn by the hail.)

Well I should probably get to my "Monday list." I have exceeded my allotted blog time! I just have so much fun with pictures, I could keep going and going.

Hope this week brings good things your way!

Love, Kari