Snow... round 2!

Enjoying another snow day today!

Haneline Family Christmas

We celebrated Christmas & rang in the New Year with Corby's family last weekend. We spent Thursday through Sunday with the family and had lots of fun with cousins, brothers, sisters, in-laws, nieces, nephews... well, you get the point. I got to hold my sweet twin nieces a lot & loved it & listened to lots of loud kids playing and having a blast.

It's always a fun time at the Haneline house. Here's a few pics from our festive weekend.

Trying to get a photo of all 14 grandkids is kinda.... hard... to say the least.

ABC Art

I've seen ABC art pics before and have always loved them. You know, your name spelled out with pictures of things all around us that happen to look like letters. Well, now I know where I can get it! My friend Mamie makes them... woop, woop! Hop on over to her blog and check out this post and a few posts below it too for more pics. (BTW... she takes beautiful pictures too!)

Happy New Year... 2011!

Another year down. Seems like 2010 went by really, really fast for me. But alas, a new year is here & I'm gung ho to get it going. Here are some goals for me to accomplish this year (I'm gonna say goals instead of new year's resolutions)... and these are in no particular order.

- Start a mom/women's bible study book... or even possibly a Bible study group.
- Finish reading Bringing Up Girls and re-read Bringing Up Boys... by James Dobson.
- Say yes more often to my family and no more often to other stuff.
- Go through each room in my house & get rid of stuff
- Re-do the boys room & get a dresser to fit all of their clothes
- Get my business going more and do more advertising
- read to my kids more
- take more videos of my kids... I take way more pics than videos
-transfer all my vhs tapes to dvd

Ok... there you have it. I've blogged it so therefore I'm accountable. What are your "goals" for the new year?

Two of My Favorite Things: Christmas and Snow

And they both happened on the same day! We had a wonderful Christmas! We stayed home this year for Christmas. We normally spend Christmas with family but this year the kids wanted to be at our house so we stayed here and plan to travel later this week to spend time with our families. On Friday my parents and my aunt & cousin came to our house for the Kirby/Cobb/Haneline Christmas celebrations. The kids opened tons of presents and we ate lots of yummy food!
(you can click on the pictures to see them larger)

Later that evening the kids decorated cookies for Santa and it took them forever to get settled into bed. But when they did, we woke up the next morning to lots of presents under the tree... wink, wink!

Chandler got an iPod...Carter got drums for the Wii....Kensley got a Nintendo DS...and they got a lot more stuff to go with it! We had lots of fun playing with all the new toys & games yesterday as we watched the snow fall outside.

What a wonderful treat to get on Christmas Day... well, ours didn't really come until later that day but we woke up to a winter wonderland this morning. The snow started on Christmas Day around 3pm but was mostly rain/snow mix until around 5pm and then the flakes started falling. By 7:30 the ground was mostly covered and was so pretty.

This morning everything was covered in 3 1/2 inches of snow (some parts of the county got even more) and the kids were ready to go sledding. We went to Crest Middle School. It has a "big hill" which everyone loves to go to. The sledding down was fun, but the climb back up the hill was not! The kids had a blast anyways and I got some great pics from it. (Yes, I did sled too... I just never get my picture taken)

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! I am so thankful for time spent with family, the beautiful snow, many presents and most of all the birth of our Savior!

Lotsa, lotsa Christmas stuff

Yeah, it's been a while since I've posted. Been just a tid-bit busy I would say. So I'm catching up today... while I'm home....and should be wrapping presents or something... but I'm blogging. Cause I don't want to get too far behind and have to blog about a whole month when exciting things are getting ready to happen. {giggle}

Ok, first off is Kensley's preschool Christmas program at Aldersgate... they sang the Reindeer Poky song... cute.


Snow! It was very brief but we had some HUGE snowflakes on Saturday the 18th. The kids ran outside in their snow gear (they couldn't really do anything b/c nothing stuck) and were able to catch some flakes on their tongues!


Going to see Santa...this was Kensley's first year sitting on Santa's lap.



Kensley's best friend John Michael spent the night with us a couple weeks ago & they exchanged presents. Two very happy kiddos!


The kids being crafty... I love this!


School parties... Jack, Gracie & Carter at lunch.

Chandler & some of his classmates playing games.


Annual church Christmas program. The kids always perform for us. Look at this big group!

And Kensley's preschool class performed as well.


A pic of the kids in front of the tree. Ummm... they are getting big cause you can't see the tree.

Merry Christmas to You!

In the midst of all the hustle & bustle of the season, I wanted to take a time out to all my friends in blogger land to say...

Merry Christmas to you!

May the joy of the true meaning of this season, the birth of our Savior, fill your hearts and homes with much love these next few weeks. From our family to yours!