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Howdy! I've been working away at the new catalog, products, etc. so this week I really fell behind on the blogging…thanks for taking it easy on me, I promise you, you'll love the new prints and cards! Anyway, on Monday it was our thirteenth wedding anniversary, I gotta say it hasn't always been rosy- you know, kids can kinda get in the way with good hang-time with your mate. But for the most part it has been simply wonderful. Andy and I went to dinner, on I think, so far, one of the coldest nights of the New Year, I...

Hello friends— a last hello from 2011 and a big anticipating hello of 2012! I don't know about you but the last year has brought, A LOT! Both good and bad (I suppose not unlike every year) but this year the goods were really, REALLY good and the bads seemed kinda really bad- not a lot of bad things personally, but to the people I really care about so it became pretty personal. Anyway, most of us try to take stock at the end/beginning of a new year. So dum, dee, dah, dum: here are my resolutions and To Do's...

Every year there seems to be so much emphasis on the buying and giving of gifts that Andy and I hope to carve out a bit of reality and focus for the girls at Christmas. In our house we celebrate the birth of Christ as the centerpiece to our Christmas and faith. We hope to instill that in our girls. Some of the ways we do that is to anticipate the birth in several ways. First we make sure the fisher-price nativity set is out and the girls have a chance to see all of the people that God used...

We have two traditions that involve light. The first is that we celebrate the advent with our Christmas Pyramid Carousel. We enjoy one in the kitchen and one in the dining room. It is such fun to light the candles and discuss the reason for the season. My husband is a wee bit swedish so it is a fun tradition. We are also lucky that we live in a fantastic old neighborhood in Des Moines called Waterbury. Every year they put out over thousands of luminaries on Christmas Eve, it is just lovely. We usually spend Christmas Eve at Andy's...