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Christmas time is here...

My deepest apologies to all of you faithful bloggers who have been patiently waiting to see this updated... Life has been busy! Really busy! But with all of these posts coming up you should now be caught up! :)

So buckle your seat belts this will be a quick ride through the Kalebaugh's Christmas season!

Happiness and cheer...

A few weeks ago we were invited to visit our friends Marge and Maury.

They made us a very yummy meal with a ton of food! They brought out pretty dishes and glasses that matched the house's beautiful decorations!

They were really excited to show off their Christmas decorations and we were really excited to see them!

A lady that Maurie works with said that she would like to decorate a fireplace sometime. So he offered to let her do theirs. The trade for decorating... Maury made her Thanksgiving dinner! (He is a wonderful cook so it was a great swap! )

I loved theses sparkly candles by the fireplace!

I think they had three trees in their house! This one matched the fireplace, one was a cute little fiber optic one, and the last one was filled with homemade decorations. :)

More decorations... :)

Marge told us that the church in the background was from when one of them was a little kid. I just forget who grew up with it! ;)

The guys relaxing after a huge diner!

Relaxing and looking at the decorations.

This is a personal favorite shot.
I like the wood work with the lights in the background!

Ok I love decorations... So that is what I took a bunch of pictures of!
But I'll stop now...

Really!

This is a pic that Rachel took. She thinks that this angle makes the snowmen look scary!

To finish the evening we ate desert! :)

Marge made a chocolate pie! It was delicious! :D

Thanks M&M for a wonderful evening! :)

Fun for all...

A couple weekends ago we had Kalebaugh Christmas!

To start off I'm gonna show you the necklace and bracelet set that I made for my aunts and cousins. Oh, and the Twins helped too. They each made a set!

Here are a few of my personal favorites! The pink set I worked on until really early in the morning!Mom found these really cute bags to put them in!

We started off the day with eating... That is a Kalebaugh thing. What ever we do we always end up eating something!

Some people enjoyed it...

...more than others.

After a while the kids had all had a lot of sugar! As you can imagine they had a lot of energy! So 'T' brought out fun pads! :)

We decided next year the kids will eat vegetables and water. ;)

Carlie! Cameron's younger sister. She has the cutest smile!

Cousins: Bret, Morgan, Abby.

They are growing up so fast!

Another kid occupier! Christmas ornaments!

This picture is of all the adults trying to figure out the kids project! I think it took one of the kids to figure it out!

Beautiful Jenny!

Too much glitter glue? They figured that one out! They blew it dry!

Big Blue eyes... I love them!

Cecelia, and Carlie. I wonder where she gets her pretty red hair from??? :)

Cousin, Jason and Stephenie.

I'm still trying to decide what is up with the look on Jason's face...

Cousins, Jeremy and Jared.

Aww! Uncle Ron has on of the little ones!

Well... What will they think of the gifts???

They ended up loving them! Such a relief! :)

One of my favorite smile to see! Damon's!

Aunt Louise is doing some sort of a dance... I think. The four of us!

Do we look like a family or what?

The children call their favorite time of year...

Feel Christmassy yet?

Here are some pics of the coolest but the most disgusting gift I have ever received.

We got this really pretty necklace with a pendant on it from one my aunts. The pendant is to be filled with a pearl! Cool right? Well what if you have to dig the pearl out of a clam yourself???

That is what we got to do! It was sooo neat but so sick at the same time! They came with your own little tool to bread through the shell and then pick out your pearl! I think I don't know my own strength... I broke my tool... :)

Rachel thought it was great!

Beck thought it was too gross. So Rachel had to open it for her.

I thought it was a little disgusting but I was determined to open it on my own! :)

Here is mine! :)

Each pearl was a different color and each color had a different meaning.

White (mine) -wisdom.

Cream (Rach's)- success.

Pink- health

Black(Beck's)-love.

Along with these really cute socks!

Snowflakes in the air...

This is going to be a kind of odd post. It is pictures from a really busy but fun day!

That afternoon there was a play practice at the Refuge. But before practicing Rachel got a hair cut! Say good bye to the braids! :)

There it goes!

So what do you think? Pretty cool huh?
Hey Isaac found a good use for all of that hair! :)

P.J.?

Isaac even sounded like my Dad when he was behind the pulpit. He started talking about Moses! ;)

Everyone put on their costume and helped Dawn get everything set up.

Ready Christian?

Gab is going for the mix match look!

Zoe the maid... :)

After everything was set up they ran through the skits.

Beck is the fill in wise man... She didn't have what it takes to be the official wise man.... So kidding! :)

A random shot of "Joseph". I thought it looked kind of cool what do you think?

Isaac turned 5 that day and we got to help him celebrate his special day!

He was only a little excited....
Happy Birthday buddy!
???

Well the trees had to come off of the cake. Why now have fun with them?

After cake Becky and I had a hair cut. While Dawn was cutting our hair she mentioned that she would like to have layers put in her hair. To make a long story short she let me cut it! Brave soul! It was actually really easy and a lot of fun! We just flipped her head upside down twisted all of her hair together and snipped off the ends! I'm so glad she gave me such easy directions!!!

We cut off around 5 to 7 inches! And it actually turned out really cute!

Anyone want a trim???