2013 In The Rearview Mirror

        

Today is the last day of 2013. It has flown by for me and I'm sure it was the same for you. Thinking about the past year and all of the things that happened. I decided to put together at least one highlight from every month:

January: Spending a week at the Gulf of Mexico (Orange Beach, Alabama)

February: First time seeing a movie in IMAX 3D

March: Meeting our friend Amelia from Canada for the weekend in South Dakota! 

April: Turning 16 and recording our EP Metamorphosis.

May: Prepping for Kimberly's Graduation party...and the party itself. ;)

June: Started "Jewberly Emiris"

July: Steve Hurst School of Music

August: 8th year singing at the Nebraska State Fair

September: Sang on Main Stage at National Quartet Convention

October: Tiffany getting engaged and the surprise trip to Texas!!  

November: Thanksgiving in Texas! 

December: Helping out with the Christmas Eve services at church and getting a sander for Christmas! :)

I have also been thinking about 2014 and what the year may have in store. For one, it's going to have a lot of changes, it might even be a year of firsts because on the 9th I will be taking my first flight and secondly I will be staying with my oldest sister in Austin (TX) without the rest of my family for five days. That is two firsts for me in the first two weeks of the year! 

Happy New Year!! 

-'- Jewel

Mounting the Television

This post was supposed to be posted the week of the 15th. Better late than never I guess! :)

 

Another project from Thanksgiving at Samantha & Edwin's!

  

Having your TV on the floor in front of the fireplace in your home can be quite annoying. The time had come to give it a permanent place to live. 

Before we came down, Samantha "mapped out" where they wanted it mounted.

Removing the mantle (and a lot of glue that came with it) was the first step!

Drilling the holes where the bracket for the TV was the was second! (Dad is working so hard!)

 

We put the bracket on the bolts and mounted the TV! (There are more steps to this project but Dad did most of it without my knowledge.)

 

 

It looks marvelous! I love the fireplace! Samantha worked hard cleaning it and decorating it!

 

Hope you enjoyed that little peek into the project!

 

-'- Jewel

 

Snapshots: Hot Chocolate

 

Our cousin Caty came over today! We were really cold so we made some hot chocolate. Since it was too hot to drink at first, we had some time to snap some pictures! :)

 

It was delicious!...after it cooled down of course! ;)

 

-'- Jewel

Merry Christmas!!

Momma's Moment

The project for Mom on Samantha's list was to sew Christmas costumes for the Children Church's Christmas program. Mom was able to finish 9 angels, 3 shepherds and 2 wise men. (One shepherd is also a wise man, that's why she made only two ;))

Mom finished the three shepherds costumes, she wasn't able to get done while we were down there and mailed them down to Samantha!

I think that's all of the projects we did while we were in Texas...I honestly don't remember :)

Until next time... Have a wonderful week!

-'- Jewel