Our Vining Christmas Gathering 2010

Our Vining Christmas Gathering

Our Thanksgiving Table Setting!!

Well once again, I'm always to busy to get a picture of the food spread or pictures of

the family except for these two. We had 23 family members present this year.

Ten adults & 13 children. It fills up my home. We had lots of yummy food, good

visiting & being surrounded by family is the best & contemplating our bounteous

blessings!! Thank you for being such a great family!! Oh & we had some fun playing

a good ole game of Croquet afterwards. It's sort of a family tradition now!! That or

Bocce!!

FOR THE BEAUTY OF THE EARTH

For the beauty of the earth,

For the beauty of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies,

Lord of all to thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the beauty of each hour

Of the day and of the night,

Hill and vale and tree and flow'r,

Sun and moon and stars of light,

Lord of all to thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise.

For the joy of human love,

Brother, sister, parent, child,

Friends on earth and friends above,

For all gentle thoughts and mild,

Lord of all to thee we raise

This our hymn, of grateful praise.

I'm thankful for all of the above!! I led our women's choir in this hymn for our ward

conference sacrament meeting & was pleased it turned out well. And helping out with

Ashley's family & baby Evalyn. And that's what I've been doing lately!! I also just

passed indexing 15,000 names for family search indexing & well on my way to 16,000

mark. My goal was 5,000. So wow! I guess it's become a habit now!!

Thanksgiving Time Dinner & Blessings!

And this is the newest bundle of sweetness! She has the cutest coo's!!

This is my lovely new dining set that I promised to blog about awhile back!

Acutually we've had it for about 3 months but some of the family are seeing it

for the first time & we had our first Thanksgiving Dinner around it!!

I love the patterns in the woodwork & the look of the wood grains. It's called "The Madrid"

Big Sister - Little Sister! Emmery & Evalyn

Emmery's first time to hold her little baby sister Evalyn. She lit up like a light-bulb, she was so pleased!!!

Won't they have fun growing up together! I can just see them in a few years!!

Our little November girl! She was born on Kelly's brother Terry's birthday!! November 10th!

We bought her a newborn outfit & it was almost to little. She was a pretty big baby!!

Newest Heaven sent blessing! Baby Evalyn

Newest Arrival! Baby Evalyn Noelle Fleming - Born Nov. 10 2010

The Happy Fleming family on new baby Evalyn's arrival!! Evalyn weighed 8lbs & 14oz. barely short of 22 inches.

Ashley looks great! She was pretty drugged up after having to have a "C" section with

this little one who decided to do a flip flop the last week before delivery. But I guess

now-days if one goes into labor & the baby is breach it is an automatic "C" section.

Mom & baby are doing fine, just need a little recoop time!!

Sean says he's pretty tough as nails, but after this one he had to have a little sit down!

My Diaper Cake Creation!!

The finished product after all the attempts. I thought it turned out quite lovely don't
ya think? I was finally pleasantly pleased. Sigh!!!! It's always nice to say, done.............!!!!We were in the process of planning a baby shower for Ashley & I had gone to a little
boutique place we had visited earlier after our Mother's Day Luncheon in May. I had
wanted to go back & get an antique silver platter I had seen there. Well the platter
was gone........ but I had fun looking around anyway & I saw a diaper cake similar to this
but it was done in greens & different flowers, so I thought OH, maybe I could try to
make one of those for a table decoration for the shower. So I had fun searching for
the items & Wha-la!!!!! Well it wasn't that easy. I called all the girls asking where I could
find some diapers that were mostly white on one side after purchasing three or four
packages of diapers that tuned out to have all kinds of characters & colors on them.
So Ashley made out getting extra diapers!! I finally cut strips out of white trash bags &
triple folded them & tapped them around the layers to give it the whiter look & that
did the trick!!!

Oh........& it's sitting on my new dinning table in case you don't recognize it & I'll

blog about it later & get some good pictures. Another project done!!! Shopping for

a new dinning set!!!

Here's a close-up details, I wanted you to see the cute polka dot ribbon.....!!

Wow!! It's been a long while since I blogged. We got a new computer tower, and eveything

had to be swithched over. And everything looked different & when I downloaded my

pictures I couldn't find them for awhile so hence I'm way behind & will have to catch

up a little bit later!!!!