something beautiful created by nicole--

these are pen drawings with watercolor--

swallowtail butterflies of Virginia--

accomplished in a couple of days--

using internet photographs of the butterflies copied from a cell phone--

she is planning a series of similar projects to hang together in her home.

thought you'd enjoy!

Kateri and the beach box from Mormor

today tee and the littles stopped by briefly to pick up the beach box from Mormor

everyone was interested in the amazing variety of stones, shells and miscellanea it contained!

I think the sea urchin was the first in the box.

(aunt jeanne supplied Kbird with a steady supply of pomegranate seeds)

what do you suppose this is?

"I don't know, but i like it!"

everything has a place

"hmm, where should this go?"

"more please, i am waiting!"

this takes some studying!

this is interesting, too!

reserved on the tray, after she tried the smaller boxes :-)

What a delightful trip to the beach!

Oh, thank you Mormor! 

Kateri is already enchanted. :-)

here he is!

some recent holiday pictures...

what could be more wonderful than Christmas?

the basher all ready for his first Christmas

Santa on his Signal Hill rounds on Christmas Eve.

We went to the Christmas Vigil at All Saints at 6pm--

which was absolutely beautiful!

and some pictures from Christmas Day...

Mimi and Daniel enjoying his first Christmas :-)

.....well you should see this guy smile!  

i wish we had captured one of his grins!

the gals enjoyed their dolls, bouncy balls and duck quackers

but most of all

the dress up sets from mimi

princess K

princess C (and quacker)

I am so sorry to have not gotten pictures of Ken, Laura, Mikey, Pat or Peter!

...that is a very good new year's resolution...

Otherwise, thanks be to God 

for a blessed Christmas!

and may we be all God's own

and do His Will

 in 2015!

a beautiful sunset at Chincoteague

silly

two sillies

thank you for the prayers,

the g-littles

are doing much better!!!

so it's a little grey and wet outside

and it's easy to feel like the

vultures on the lamp post in the picture above....

i guess they don't know enough to get out of the rain

what odd-bodies!

but it's also just 3 days til Christmas...

so

would you like a Christmas tour

of

this guy's bedroom?

he really loves the Christmas spirit!

His decor

is basically a tree

lights, of course,

(and yes, 

he does sleep in a box on the bunk bed....)

and 

ornaments

Merry Christmas!