The Scent of Molasses and Cloves!

I didn't realize that molasses smelled SO good! And so Christmasy! Mmm...

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This evening I began baking the first of many Christmas goodies that will be for our Zielinski family Christmas party this Saturday! It's coming up fast and we're really excited! I saw a pretty picture of a gingerbread cookie on the cover of a Baker's catalog and decided I wanted to make some! So here's photos of the batch I made and hopefully they'll make it safely to Saturday without getting eaten! (The picture of the candy canes are just . . . well, they looked Christmasy and added to the "festive flare" of the post! :D)

~Annie

Now That Christmas Is Coming. . .

We've been getting out our violins and flutes and practicing glorious songs of old to perform for Christmas! On Elizabeth's 16th birthday, our good friend Rachel came over to practice with us! And may I say: "Two violins are better than one!" =D It was simply a blast!
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So this really gets one into the 'Christmas spirit. We've selected several songs to be rehearsing for our church's annual 'Christmas Sing' this month, and we're looking forward to it immensely!

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Also, for those of you who are getting out the Christmas movies, here's a few titles you should consider adding to your list!
Christmas In Connecticut
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
The Christmas Card

Happy Holidays!
~Annie Z

Fall~Old West Harvest Fest!

Annie and I with some of the other workers!

Gideon worked over at the roping a lot!

Liz and Gid ! :D

Panning for Gold!

Trading in their gold for candy! :)

Annie helping children make candles!

I hope your having a fine Fall!

Annie, Gideon and I have started working at the Old West Harvest Fest every weekend! It's a lot of fun to do!

You can go on a hay ride,make a candle,pan for gold,feed the animals,and learn how to rope. Little kids can go on a old west wagon train ride! All the workers dress up in old-west clothing! So it's a lot of fun to work at!

I hope you enjoyed looking at the pictures! :)

God Bless You!

Happy 6th Birthday Christian!

Sorry it's been Forever sens we've posted on here! :O :)

September 21 was Christian Reese 6th Birthday!(though we celebrated it the day before). We weren't able to get any pictures on that day because none of our camera's are working at the moment! :) Hopefully we'll be able to put some new pictures up here soon!

I hope your have an amazing Fall!

~O Give thanks unto the Lord; for he is Good:

for his mercy endureth for ever!

Up North For The Festival!

We're at the lake!

Lovely Chloe!

Angelise! (Beautiful picture!)

Annie and Lindsey by the lake!

We got to see our cousin well we were up there! They came over one night to our house after dinner!

Trying to get a group photo.

talking in the back yard. With grandma Zielinski!

It must be a interesting book!

Uncle Andy,grandpa&grandma Z and dad with Angel.

Lindsey, Chloe, Annie and Gid were all in a run/walk for life race!

It was a lot of fun watching them. =D

They went right past our house! We all cheered them on as they went by!

GO GID!

Go Lindsey!!!!!

GO CHLOE AND ANNIE!!!!!! =D

Later that day our grandma Pfiefer came up see us, and took us out to the Craft Show and to ice cream! =D We had a really nice time!

The ice cream was so good!

Gid and Cloe in the shirts they got for running!

(Gid's taller then Cloe!)

We went to this really cool booth!

Look at all the pretty stuff!

The next day grandma Pf went home.

Good bye grandma!

We all went to the parade with lots of our family!

Fun,fun!

We had lots of fun!(can you tell?)

Alison and Annie!

Some of us cousins.

Awwwwww

We all went back to grandma and grandpa Z's for lunch!

Chloe,Annie&Angel with our cousins little boys

Having our lunch in the back yard. :)

All of us older girls went for a walk down to the lake after lunch!

So cute of us all!

Getting Sophia up for the Fire Works!
They were so pretty!

Time to go home after a amazing week!

We had a great time in Roger City for the Festival the first week in August! We got to see lots of our family, which was great! It's always a really fun time for us all! I hope enjoyed looking at all the pictures I put up(even though it's a bit late).

We've been away at family camp so hopefully we'll put some pictures of that up soon!

I hope your having an amazing summer! We are!

God Bless!