Sunday, December 12, 2010
We finally saw Santa!
The kids are in bed, Aaron is having fun with the guys at church watching football (alas to the Metrodome!!! How sad! It's such a part of the Mpls skyline!), and I scrapbooked. A relaxing end to the day. Well, mostly. I really need to clean our room! Off to do that now!
~JG
Monday, December 6, 2010
Kraiz
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Kraiz
Here are some pictures (thanks to Grandpa Dick's awesome camera!) ...
Friday, December 3, 2010
Charlie Brown Christmas
I read this on Focus on the Family and thought it was so true!
By Jim Daly
I was only four years old on the night of Thursday, December 9, 1965 (45 years ago!), but to this day, I can tell you where I was and what I was doing - watching the debut of A Charlie Brown Christmas on CBS in our southern California home.
It was an instant hit, much to the surprise of network executives, but surely not to me. (I assumed the whole world was watching!) Creator Charles Schulz argued with the bosses at CBS over a host of issues. At the time of its creation, studio personnel thought it was too religious (Linus quotes Luke 2:8-14) and too amateur (all the voices were of kids, not professional actors). They also believed the theme music was too contemporary for kids’ tastes (Vince Guaraldi’s jazz soundtrack is now a classic and instantly recognizable by all) and that the lack of a laugh track left the production feeling flat and too contemplative, but in an overly simplistic kind of way.
Isn’t it interesting that all the things we like about it are the very things Hollywood didn’t?
Thursday, December 2, 2010
It's a miracle!
Ellie: I want to listen to the CD about the White Witch and about Aslan the lion ...
Aaron: You mean, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe?
Ellie: Yeah. I just can't say Wardrobe.
Aaron: You just said it! You just said wardrobe.
Ellie: (pause) HaHa! It's a MIRACLE! It's a miracle of Jesus!
Gotta love those little unexpected miracles whenever they show up! Ha!
~JG