Merry Christmas!

Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas!

"And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered.
This census took place while Quirinius was governing Syria.
So all went to be registered, everyone to his own city.
Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the ciy of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his bethrothed wife, who was with child.
So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered.
And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn."

Luke 2:1-7

Later this baby would grow up, be tortured, and would end up dying on a cross for you and for me. And would you believe that this baby named Jesus was God's only son? His only, perfect son. So Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice with our sins on his shoulders. Now because of this, we can have a relationship with God which was something the people in the days before Jesus couldn't have.

We celebrate Christmas to remember how God gave up His son for us. And how Jesus was born into this sinful world. Remember this as you celebrate Christmas tomorrow!

Our cat, Collar Dude

We all love our arrogant, annoying, cuddly, and sweet C.D. Ana and him especially are best friends. We have had such good luck with our cats. Although a couple of them have been arrogant, they all have loved us and have been sweeter than most cats. Junior, (one of our cats that ran away), was extremely sweet. Whenever he was held, he would put his little paws up on our shoulder so he could see what was going on. One time he even licked Lucas's ear everytime Luke turned to take him outside. It was like he was pleading to please still be held. He also became a mother to our kitten triplets, (his younger brothers and sister), when their mother refused to feed and take care of them. I think we all miss him a lot. Grizzly was my best friend cat. He was attached to me more than anyone else and would even nose my face when I clucked at him. Once in a while he comes back, but Collie always scares him away again, even though they're brothers. Stitches was our mother cat that gave us our five other cats. First two, then three kitten litters. Pepsi is still with us. She is very fat and her tummy sways as she walks. She is the talker of all our cats. She always is telling us something! Splotchy, (Ebony), was given to our great aunt because our neighbor threatened to shoot our cats if they were on her property. Splotchy was the wanderer so we had to find a new home for her. Gus was one of our first cats. He was wild when we got him, but we tamed him and he soon became very sweet and adorable. So anyways, this is the story of our 7 cats! But this post is about Collar Dude. Long story about the name.

The poor cat suffers betwen the two youngest. Right here he is being buckled into their doll's stroller.

He didn't stay there long.

Mom helped next.

And he was actually pretty content. He sat there really nicely just staring at everyone and everthing.

Ana was able to push him around everywhere. And both of them were happy.

The End

Pumpkin Carving, The Process

Lucas has amazed us these last two or three years with some extroadinary pumpkin carvings. The finished pumpkin looks like it was very hard to carve, and though it was quite the process and had many hand cramps along the way, it was actually pretty simple.

Lucas chose a humungous pumpkin this year. I mean HUMUNGOUS!

I mean it looks like it should have its own chair like a person. It was big.

That's just one of the bowls of guts. But going back to the process... Lucas started with cutting off the top, and reaching his hand in and taking big ol' handfuls of guts. Fun...

Lucas had drawn what he wanted his pumpkin to look like and then he cut out letters and shapes and taped them to the pumpkin.

He next used a poker thingy from a pumpkin kit to punch holes around the letters and everything. This is the hand cramping part.

This was it when he was finally done with all those holes! You can kinda see how it's punched in.

Up close..

He next took off the paper. You can faintly see the bats and the word, FREAKY.

Now Lucas used the holes as a guide as he cut. The holes make it so much easier!

And he kept cutting and cutting and cutting...

After punching out the pieces, this was his pumpkin.

Ta Da! A finished pumpkin. A finished interesting pumpkin. A finished, interesting, freaky pumpkin.

The rest of us stuck to triangle eyes, noses, and a smilie face. BUT SOME OF US HAD TEETH! (We couldn't let Luke outdo us)! :)

Bad News today about court date

Go to http://www.emwantsmore.blogspot.com/ to read about it.

Court Day

As I said on Em Wants More, today is court day. We are all praying and we need your prayers too! If we pass court, we will travel 8-16 weeks later. So we could leave as early as February!

Merry Christmas! And a Happy New Year!
Emily

The Best Big Brother in the World and Ana's Beauty Salon

How many 13 year old brothers will let their 5 year old sister do their hair? Sorry about how blurry the pictures are, I was peeking around the doorway to take the picture! Lucas even left a barret in his hair and we were hoping he'd go to my game with it in!! But he took it out!

Ethan's Recipe Book, Eat if you Dare

Ethan was watching me make pizza one day, and he decided to come up with his own recipes! Delicious, right??

Sarah's goldpancake bread
10 cups of milk
8 cups of sugar
70 drops of vanilla

Mix until you arm hurts!! put it on the stove 299 degrees put 800 pepperoni's on it!!!!!!! then serve
by, (buy), lots of pepperoni

No kidding, this is what it said. No changes at all.

Recipe for Phil's biscuit pizza's

ingredients

2 cups of flour
1 spoonful of cornmeal
1 full cup of milk
2 corn on the cob's (cut up)
1 cup of salt
2 spoons of sugar
4 teaspoons of shortening

bake for 50 min,, 359 degrees when it is out put sauce, pepperoni, and cheese then in the oven for 15 min. then serve

But that's not all of these recipes...

Anne's Cupcakes

1 cup of salt
2 cups of milk
4 cups of shortening
2 drops of vanilla
3 cups of flour

put sprinkles on it put in 15 min. then serve

So go ahead, try these recipes. But don't expect me to come over to help eat them up afterwards. I may be Cook Ethan's sister, but I also know that's too much salt!!!! And vanilla!!!! ANd milk!!!! AND sugar!!!!