Faces of the Nativity - A celebration of Jesus Christ

I Love Christmas!

I love the decorations.

I love the warm tastes and smells.

I love the gifts.

But mostly I love the special spirit and feeling that come over so many people around the world.

I get annoyed at people changing things around and taking the reason for the season away.

I may be politically wrong here but really, if it were not for us religious people that celebrated Christmas and Hanukkah and other such things there would not be a "Winter Holiday" so please stop taking it out of the school system and such.

I Love that the school my kids go to still says we are having a Christmas Concert and such.

We don't leave anyone else out but it also keeps us at our roots of why we have this season.

So in helping to keep the Spirit of the Season our Wonderful Church as put together a display that  helps us remember that feeling of peace and love.
We have almost 500 Nativities from all over the world set up for anyone who wants to come and see.
It is free because we don't want to make this feeling something that excludes people.
It has a spiritual reverence about it that bring about the spirit of love and giving.
I used that amazing place to create this years Christmas card picture.
Want to know more about what it or where we are check out our  Facebook Page
And for those who are unable to come due to distance or illness I took a few pictures to share.
Enjoy.

 

Festival of the Trees

So Last week PG started off the Christmas season with their annual Festival of the Trees.

Even though we have lived here for 6 years this is only our second year going to it.

Sam and Jordan volunteered with their leadership group at school 1 day during the week.

I was able to join in with Sam for a while on his day to make sure he would be ok.

He did great during the morning that I was there.

It also meant I got to have some time to check out the displays with no kids around.

They were all breath taking!

I was able to take a few pictures while I was there

Here are a few of my favorites.

Mike took the boys down on Thursday and enjoyed some Dad time with them.

Ben spent Saturday Volunteering there as well.

The best part of this event is that all the money raised goes to support Northern Health and we get a better heath care system up here just for enjoying some beautiful Christmas trees :)

How do you start the Holiday Season?

Crazy Saturday

This past Saturday was truly what I call a crazy day.

It is the reason I called this blog My Crazy Life.

Josh had to leave by 9:30 to watch a friend at a hockey game

I had Sam, Matt, and Tom who had Primary Presentation practice at 10am that finished at 12:30

Claudia had her first Dance recital at 11am but needed to be there for 10:30 and it didn't end until 12:30

Ben needed to be organized to head down to the Festival of the Trees for noon for his volunteer time of 4 hours he needs for his Leadership camp application.

Yeah, if you can't guess I felt a little like a chicken with it's head cut off that morning!

After I picked everyone up... Sam and them a little late, thank goodness they were late getting done I had 1 hour to get ready to take Sam down to the movie theater so he could watch his first movie for his article in the school paper.

Mike got home from work just a few minutes before we had to leave so that was a little stressful.

of course in between all that I have to feed these 6 hungry kids and make sure they have the energy to make it through all these activities.

Man the life of a mom with kids involved is really tiring!

I really enjoyed Cloe's dance recital but next time I need to make sure someone comes with me because trying to record a video with one hand and take pictures with the other resulted in not great versions of either.

But I did get something and that makes me happy :)

I really enjoyed watching Arther Christmas with Sam and watching him take notes during the movie for writing his review was cute!

I will post his articles after the paper comes out.

In all it was a good day and makes me feel great to be a MOM!

My kids were happy and what more could I ask for?

Enjoy the video I took of the dance recital (Cloe is the white blob with a blue flower in her hair) and some of the slightly blurry but fun pictures I took in the other hand :)

 

Men's Hearts Shall Fail Them

This video really made me think about how would I feel in that same situtation?

Would I be able to stay calm or would my heart fail me out of fear?

Am I ready to meet my Father in Heaven?

 Are you?

My Daughter, The Artist.

Cloe has been going to daycare now since July.

It is a wonderful place with great teacher that have brilliant ideas for fundraising.

This latest fundraiser is so amazing.

They had all the kids make Art work that they put into a gallery on the wall with only numbers on them..no names.

The parents then came along and voted for their top 3 pictures.

Those 3 pictures would then be auctioned off and the money would go into the funding.

Well trust my daughter to be the one to break the rules.

A lady for some business (no idea which one) LOVED Cloe's picture.

They went to the coordinator and asked if they could just purchase her picture instead of chancing it would go to auction and they might get it.

They of course had to come to me to ask for my permission to do this.

OF COURSE I SAID YES!

So Cloe's picture was purchased before they even found out who the top 3 were.

So I took a picture so that we would have a copy of it and I thought I would share it all with you.

I also took pictures of the top 3 that were picked 2 days later.

Enjoy!

Some Photo Fun

I have been having fun with photos lately :)

Photo shoots for Christmas, pictures of my kids, and lately Pictures for the school.

Sam and Jordan have joined the Journalism Club that was just started up.

The amazing kids in this club have published their first paper and I have to say I LOVE what they named it.

The Harwin Lions: Actually Interesting News

It is a newspaper for kids written by kids and I am a fan.

Well I thought I would share with you the passes I made for Jordan and Sam.

I whited out some of the info but please enjoy.

 

Some Green Screen Fun

So I have been busy lately between Kids, Tax Class,  and Many other things including my photography.

The most fun I have been having is the Green Screen photos I took at the Church Halloween party on October 29th.

It takes a little work to change out the background and I got better at it the more I worked on the photos.

I miss it now that I am done them.

I would like to thank Google Images and those amazing talented people out there that helped find some fun backgrounds to use.

So I thought I would Share some of my favorites with everyone here.

Enjoy!



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