Anne's Christmas Story

The day I Saved Christmas By Anne Chambers
An Elf's Tale
If you want to read a sad , horribly boring,dull , and depressing story you should stop reading right now. For mine is a merry story a Merry Christmas story really. Maybe I should start the story now.
Once upon a time I was working at the workshop on a boringly average day.I had woken up at the same time I always do 4:00 a.m. . The time right now was 11:00 a.m. .I was working on building a life size toy horse that you could ride. At the moment I was working on making the horse stronger and faster. A lot of children wanted life size toys good thing that was my specialty.
The kids sometimes wanted mythical creatures others wanted normal animals. I made them all.The kids probably wouldn't get their toys this year.You see Santa was really really sick. He was going to die really soon. The Christmas spirit wasn't strong enough this year. Santa wasn't going to make it for next Christmas. We needed to find the new Santa soon.
"Those poor kidos," I said. "They probably won't get there Christmas presents." Maybe Frost (Jack Frost is whom I am referring to) knew a cure to Clause's illness.If he did he wouldn't give it to us to make Clause better. You see Clause and Frost are brothers.
They both liked a certain girl that you now know as Mrs . Clause. Frost liked her but so did St.Nick. Frost decided that they would have a contest to see who he wanted to go out with. Clause won of course ,but Frost never forgave either one of them. Frost had tried everything he could think of even jealousy. Nothing worked . Crazy idea maybe I could find the new Santa. I could use my source of magic. A magic candle. You see if any human has magic in them that magic wants more and more magic. At that very second the candle pulled me to were the new Santa house was. I explained everything he came with me.
When we got to the North Pole Santa was almost dead. He told the new Santa everything he could before he died. Santa had an amazing burial! The new Santa is one of the best Santa's ever.
Well my tale is over. I hope you enjoyed my tale little elf girls and boys.
The End

Decorating for Christmas

I love decorating for Christmas.

I especially love reminiscing about the stories behind the ornaments and remembering the many friends we have shared Christmas with. Cory has a number of mini-ornaments he brought back from his mission to Russia. Jane was helping me with those.

First she pulled out this ornament and said,

"Here's a daddy"

Then she gave me this one and said,

"Here's a mommy"

Then she gave me this one and said,

"It's Jesus!"

Thanksgiving

This year we had Thanksgiving at our home.

We had Cory's and my parents, Eleanor (and her friend Natalie), Kristen, Erin and Chris and their kids, and my Grandma Kramer. This was only the second Thanksgiving I remember having with my Grandma, so it was extra special.

We're so thankful for a great family and a chance to spend time together.

We're also thankful for all that yummy food.

HALLOWEEN FUN!

We carved pumpkins:

Don't you love these

Jack-o'-lanterns?

The girls went to a Halloween Party. . .

Our little Princess came back as Blackbeard Jane

When HALLOWEEN arrived,

ANNE was sick (she would have been ELLA ENCHANTED)

ABBEY (BELLE), CHEERLEADER OLIVIA,

and PRINCESS JANE

and last, but not least

MULLET-MAN(a.k.a. CORY)

Real Salt Lake is in the Playoffs!

Those of you in Utah know that I have enjoyed going to Real Salt Lake games the last few years with family. My brothers and I have really embraced soccer. However, being a fan of Real Salt Lake has been a lesson in futility. On Saturday Real Salt Lake needed to tie and/or beat the Colorado Rapids to make the playoffs. When Real was down by a goal with only a minute left we had all pretty much conceded that the season was over, but then a miracle happened.

Falling in love with Daddy

Every night our family writes in a gratitude journal as part of our bedtime routine. We take turns mentioning something we were grateful for that day. The other night while we were beginning our routine Olivia wanted to kiss Cory on the cheek, she kept kissing Cory "one more time" or "this time on your lips," then again on his cheek, and so on for a few minutes while the rest of us took our turns. When it was Olivia's turn to say what she was grateful for, she said, "I'm grateful I could fall in love with Daddy tonight."

We have a new nephew!

We have a new nephew, and I was finally able to see him yesterday.

Welcome to this new world little Christopher Neal!