Girls Only - Family Game Night

Some members of my family enjoy playing games. So when Charity and Colleen are in town, it's fun to get together with other family memebers who are free to come and play games for the evening. Just bring your favorite snack and drink. Apples to Apples is a great game to voice your own opinion.

Now and then we would take time out to eat!

Above we have Tammy, Charity, Kara and Hannah.

Have you ever played Catch Phrase? It's lots of fun, but you have to think very fast because you don't want the timer to stop when it's your turn. So as the instruction says, "TALK FAST...PAST FAST."

As always the evening went by fast. But it was soooo much fun.

The Day Before Christmas

It was the day before Christmas and my phone kept ringing. Jan calling from Watertown, Wisconsin. "It's snowing here. What's it doing there?" she asked. "It's snowing here." was my reply. "We plan to leave here around 3:00 p.m. Keep me posted."

Next phone call was from my neice Tammy. "Well, Uncle Dave is sick (he usually is our Santa), so they won't be coming. Aunt Venita said the weather was to dip down thirty degrees and the winds were to pick-up. What do you think we should do?"

I can't remember any year that we have cancelled a Rehfeldt Christmas Eve.

I talked to my brothers, Bruce in Chicago and Tim here in Rockford...Tim was willing to be Santa if no one wanted the job. Do you know who are Santa was? It wasn't Tim. At any rate they both felt the show should go on. And even when Tammy talked to her Aunt Sheila, her reply was, "We can't cancel a Rehfeldt Christmas Eve Party."

We did forego our caroling and had our dinner earlier.

We had around 60 people. And we are so thankful for everyone who came. Thanks to the Berean Baptist Church in Beloit for letting us use their church.

Take the time and read my three-part blogging about this yearly event. The ENDING IS GREAT!!!!

Rehfeldt Christmas Eve - Part 1 - WOW

Rehfeldt Christmas Eve - Part 2 - Santa

Ryan & Santa
Molly & Santa

Mikayla & Santa

Ali and Santa

Adam & Santa

What a great kind face our Santa has!

Rehfeldt Christmas Eve- Part 3- Best Part

"I'M GOING TO BE A GRANDMA! I'M GOING TO BE A GRANDMA!" That's all I remember saying when I unwrapped a gift from our traditional Santa. Normally only the younger members of our families receive gifts from Santa, but somethimes we like to pull a prank on an older member. Well I did threw in a gift from Santa for Dr. Sturgill. At first I thought my sister was getting back at me. Mine was the last gift to be given out that evening.

Judi, my sister-in-law informed me that my mother begin to cry. Since I was standing and she was sitting behind me, I didn't know this. Then Charity, Colleen and Candice were crying. The whole family were so happy for Ann-Marie and Brett!

What a way to end our Rehfeldt Annual Christmas Eve Gathering. I'm still on cloud nine. And oh so thankful to the Lord for answered prayer.

Christmas with the Grandkids!

We met Dave, Camille, Andrew and Brigitte at Red Lobster for lunch on December 22, 2008. An earlier date had to be cancelled because of bad weather.

After lunch we came back to our home to open gifts. On the way over, Dave and Camille stopped and picked up two pies. One was pumpkin and the other was one of my favorite, Lemon Meringue.

We had such a wonderful relaxed time with them. Time always goes too fast when you are with your loved ones. I hope they enjoy their gifts as much as we will enjoy ours. Merry Christmas!

Fun Night With Great Niece & Nephews!

I'm so far behind in my blogging, but I will try to post events that have happened to me even it's for my own benefit.

On December 20th we had Megan, Caleb and Jacob stay with us while their mom and dad attended a Christmas Party at their church. I asked Tammy if they could bring some games they would enjoy playing. They came well prepared.

We all enjoyed a cup of hot chocolate with some cupcakes I had made in advance. Just enjoy the photos. It was a fun night.

I Have Been Tagged

Link to your tagger and list these rules on your blog. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their name as well as links to their blog. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. I have a phobia of heights. Yep, can't sit in a balcony! Afraid to go down escalator. I'm real fun to go shopping with. Always looking for an elevator or stairs.

2. In the summer of 1963 I lived in Manhattan, New York for about six months. That was the same year that President Kennedy was assassinated. Worked in Brooklyn, New Jersey for a government agency.

3. Met my first husband, Robert Lawrence Trotter at Moody Bible Institute. We were married for 32 wonderful years.

4. Believe it or not but I took piano lessons at MBI. Don't know why, but I did. Not at all good at playing the piano.

5. One sad event for me was a miscarriage when Ann-Marie was around five years old.

6. Thankful that Gary, my second husband was willing to take the plunge and marry me. We have been married for six years.

7. I never use to be a reader of books. Now I'm always reading something. Ranging from biographical to a simple love story. Of course the Bible is my favorite. It is God's Word and I am constantly growing in the things of the Lord.


So I will tag 7 people:

Linda, my sister
Michelle
Deborah
Alex
Tammy
Danielle
Charity

Soup Weather

It's that time of year when you enjoy having soup. Since my sister, Jan was coming down along with her family...husband and dog, she asked my mother what she would like for supper. At first we thought we would just pick up some fast food items, but mother said that she would like some homemade potato soup. Being the wonderful daughter that she is, Jan made her delicious homemade potato soup....mmmm good. We did not plan our outfits for that evening, but as you can see, our tops were all in different shades of red.

I don't know how many of you have seen my mother wear glasses, but here she is! Great looking pair of glasses, don't you think?

I told Jan that we needed to get a picture of Darryl with Mom. And just look at the bowl of potato soup! I wished you all could have been with us to enjoy it.