My New Favorite Teacup

Tracy / January 16, 2015

Thank you, Joshua and Kylie, for the lovely Christmas gift. I’ve never seen a cup made like this- I’ve excited to get to use it! It was beautiful.

Jacob’s Gift

Tracy / January 14, 2015

Jacob won the prize for most exciting Christmas gift this year. He bought three used go-carts. He’s worked and worked on them over the past couple of months to get them ready for Christmas. (He’s also planning to sell a couple of them. It was an investment for him, too.) It was cold Christmas. (Jacob never gets cold unless he…

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Birthstone Necklace

Tracy / January 13, 2015

I’ve been trying to find jewelry for mamas with “larger than average” families for years! I was shocked and actually had tears running down my cheeks when I opened this lovely gift. Courtney made it. Each little stone represents the birthstone or the birth pearl for each of my children. I’m so proud of it and she did such a…

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Owen’s Bunny

Tracy / January 3, 2015

He has a big sister who loves him a great deal and worked very hard to make this little guy a special bunny for Christmas. He *loves* it!

2014 Parade Float

Tracy / December 12, 2014

Small town Christmas parades are the *best*. Last year, I mentioned wanting to build a family float. I wasn’t sure at that time how elaborate I wanted to build, I just wanted everyone to work together. I wanted to meet new friends in our community. I wanted to build memories and have fun. My family has all helped in one…

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2014 Christmas Socks

Tracy / December 12, 2014

Woot! It’s that time of year again!! This year, we added Kylie to our yearly tradition of new Christmas socks for the Lambert ladies. I always gift them right before we make our trip to Christmas Village. It was an especially sweet evening with our newest addition to the family: The Snoopy socks are MINE!!! 😀 I’ve been wearing them…

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I Can’t Remember …

Tracy / January 23, 2014

if I shared these gifts, or not! This has been one of the best Christmas gifts we have given our children in some time! The ants stay busy and provide spiritual lessons for our family. Ants work hard! It just happens that the week before the caterpillars arrived, we were reading about the life cycle of a butterfly. When they…

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Another Christmas Gift

Tracy / January 14, 2014

My sweet friend Jan, gave me a very special gift for Christmas this year: She made the ladies in our church a coffee mug using this tutorial Courtney wrote on her blog! I just adore it!!! Thank you, Jan!

Sweet Gifts

Tracy / January 8, 2014

We received many very thoughtful gifts this year for Christmas. This was definitely one of my favorites: It was given by a precious little friend of our family. She gave it in our new little one’s name. (If you aren’t familiar with Samaritan’s Purse, please click through the link to read more!)

A Favorite Christmas Gift

Tracy / January 1, 2014

My children place a lot of though into the gifts they buy…this one brought me to tears this year: It was unusual and so beautiful.     They used the Bible verse that inspired the title of this blog,  Psalm 128:3. I have no idea what made them choose this gift, but the tree on the front reminded me of…

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More Christmas Photos…

Tracy / December 30, 2013

Are you tired of them yet?? I think I’ve taken more Christmas photos this year than the last several years, combined! –Making breakfast….these two were in a hurry to get to the gifts! Jessa and Matthew making cinnamon rolls while piggies in the blanket were baking Courtney starts my day with the perfect peppermint mocha….. Our Christmas trees hanging in…

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