Matthews Family Herald

There's Micah tuning his guitar while the rest of the kids keep working on the Christmas tree.











Here's the tree with all the lights in the house off. That was back with the star still glowed. It. . . just . . . quit working recently. . .






This is Leon, one of the boys' best friends here in Germany. He also made Ginger Bread Man and began to dispatch him shortly thereafter. Those eye glasses are very typical of the German look.















Another shot of the kids working with Mom on shaping their ginger bread persons.







Here's a group photo of those popcorn balls mentioned in an earlier post.








Nathan proudly displaying his creations.






Hannah thought hers would make great ear rings.







Eden got an ouwee on her finger while hanging ornaments on the tree. I had to make her a bandage right quick.










Here's one of Micah's recent spray paint art work items. He did this one around Thanksgiving.



Awe, Mary getting some blanket toy time. . .











Another one of Micah's pray paint creations. A really good one, I think. Don't forget, he has his own website at: http://www.spacepainters.blogspot.com/
We are still working on arranging so that if a person wants to compensate him for supplies and time and trouble, he can apply his spray paint art practice making something for you. Let him know what you'd like.

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Jacob came up with the cool idea of drawing something on the magnetic sketch pad and then adding action figures to make the event complete.

This pencil sketch was done by Hannah. We've been reading more "Little House on the Prairie" and watching "Homestead Blessings" DVDs. Click the picture to enjoy a larger version. Click this link to see about the Homestead Blessing "West Ladies" http://homestead-blessings.com/


Jacob's ginger bread man pleads for his life...












But to no avail...





Hannah has made Eden lots of paper doll mermaids. Eden is holding one up here for you to see.










All of the mermaids are displayed to the left. Here's a great drawing Hannah did of her on our someday farm. . .





Here's the gingerbread cookies we made for the family next door with the same arrangement of husband, wife, one boy and one girl.










Eden was working hard on her gingerbread person.









This is Micah's popcorn ball man.














Jacob's a good brother.







Heather put together some homemade "good smelly" air freshner items found around the area and then put them in containers like this basket around the house. Makes a nice atmosphere.










Mary Ann here looking intently at this baby. Another "What chu talkin' bout Willis" moment.

Do you recall me mentioning that Hannah makes doll clothes out of wet wipes? Well, she does and here's an example of one.