The Living Christ

Every year for Christmas, our little family does a "Gift for Christ" exchange. Like the little drummer boy, we can't do anything that would equal the gift that we receive from Christ, but it's our little way of showing the kids the true meaning of Christmas.

In past years, there have been songs sung, pictures drawn, stories or books read. This year Steven wrote a Christmas story, Kim read a story, Logan sung a song and the 2 little ones colored pictures.

For my gift this year I wanted to do something special. I decided to take apart the lines of "The Living Christ" a proclamation the First Presidency and 12 apostles put together in 2000 and put them together with pictures to help my kids better understand the meaning. So I delved into the world of digital scrapbooking (Side note...I do love the easiness of digital scrapbooking, but I miss the feel of paper and glue doing the "real" thing. I think I'll continue to do a mixture of both).

I showed my friend and she loved it! (Thanks for the praise Tamera.) I had Steven post it on his website so she could access it and print it for her use. Today, I just thought some of you might like it also. Here are a couple of my favorite pages:

Title Page

Just really love this quote and the ribbon:

Love this pic:

Love the door knob on this one (and yes, the SLC temple is pretty, but if the Meridian one was done, I'd totally have that pic instead....I may just update this page when it is):

So here is the link: http://rayznkids.us/galleries/LivingChrist

The images are 8 inches by 8 inches. I think I adjusted them on the copies I printed to 7x7 and mounted them on black paper.

Feel free to check it out. If you like it, print a copy for your family.

Snowy Day

So far this year, it has been pretty dry up in these parts. Today we finally got some snow worth writing home about. Of course, the boys wanted to go out and play. After some nudging from Neelie, I decided to bundle them up and send them outside.

Here is Evan eating the snow....by far his most favorite activity. At one point, he had fallen on his bum and couldn't/didn't-want-to get back up, so he sat there and ate snow for a while.

Logan looking all smiley. Could be that he had just barely gone outside.

Owen also eating the snow....is that just a boy thing? Notice the snow piled up on the BBQ and chair...it's up to the bottom of the car in the background.

Just couldn't resist showing you this happy little face. Look at those rosy cheeks! And gloves covered in snow. He was having a blast and stayed outside the longest of the 3.
Here is Logan and Owen having a "snowball" fight. Really they would just pick up a handful of snow and chuck it at the other one....most of the time not hitting anything.

The boys had lots of fun playing in the snow that fell this morning. It got probably 4-5 inches deep...deep enough that Evan was having trouble walking. They spent about 20ish minutes outside. Then they came in for Noodle Soup (Ramen) and Chicken Nuggets to warm up.

Unfortunately, for these guys it warmed up in the late afternoon/evening and instead of snow we got rain. Who know what it will look like in the backyard tomorrow. At least they got to enjoy some snow today.