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| A month may not seem long for some, but we're not often away from each other and it seems like it was more then 3 weeks at times! |
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| Following making the banner, and cleaning the rest of the room the night before we went to pick Matthew and Micaiah up, Mom and I found Marscel fast asleep perfectly poised in the middle of writing a letter to the boys. |
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| Upon arriving in St. Louis we headed to the ice rink... the last day it was opened of the season. |
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| Ready to cut the ice... |
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| One of the boys had the idea for everyone to wear a hat. It's funny how many people asked where we were from because "I've never seen anyone dressed like you while ice skating" :-) |
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| Since we could only go in one direction we swept in wide sweeping circles in one long chain breaking apart to avoid running anyone over and re-linking again. |
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| A stroll in the park |
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| Micaiah helping wash the dishes... Hannah height |
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| Capturing a few more memories of the memories that were captured |
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| Taking DDR to a new level... the ultimate arm exercise |
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| Nothing beats farm fresh eggs! |
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| The race is on! |
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| Coloring with Coreen |
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| "Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one’s youth." I can't wait to see the newest little Niednagel blessing arriving, Lord willing, near the end of the month! |
5 comments:
We sure had a blast with you all last Monday!! We will definitely have to do that again. :)
We'll be praying for safe travels for you all this weekend and look foward to seeing you again - we'll miss you while your're gone!!
I'll look forward to emailing Baxter with you, Melanie. I'm really enjoying doing that together. Be sure to post pictures of your new niece/nephew -can't wait to see them!!
Love,
Savannah
Looks like you had a lot of fun! St. Louis is a great place. :-)
A couple months back I saw that you all went to a masquerade and made your own masks...my brother and I are going to one in a month or so and would like to make our own masks. Are there any tips you could give us, or a website with a tutorial? Thanks so much!
Hi Joanna
For the boys masks they followed this tutorial they found on youtube for the base:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdKlqp-aiSM
After it dried they painted it with acrylic paints, and for Matthew and Micaiah, a gold leaf pen, gold puff paint (for the squiggles), and for one side they stamped a music stamp on paper and dipped it in water to soften the paper enough to form it to the mask. They glued the ties to the inside with a strong glue and good size ribbon (at least 1/2 inch thick).
For Pa and I, we bought a basic form at JoAnn's, cut it down to a smaller size and covered it with fabric (putting the glue on the inside of the mask and stretching the fabric to lay smooth over it)and for mine, decorated with a button, feathers, and little crystals.
I hope that helps and that you enjoy making them!
Thanks! Making our own with plaster looks really fun, but I think we'll go with mask blanks for this project because of our time constraint, school, life etc.
Thanks again!
Aww! Such adorable pictures! I love the ice skating ones. You all look so cute while embracing "winter wonderland" :-) Love and miss you all..these pictures make me miss you even more!
Love in Christ,
~Alina
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