Monday, December 20, 2010

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 25 "Happy Birthday Jesus"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 25
"Happy Birthday Jesus"
credited to the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir






This is such a special song! My girls love hearing it!
May we all remember that Jesus is the reason for the season!

Merry Christmas everyone!
~Hannah

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 24 "Night Before Christmas" & "Silent Night"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 24

Two songs for Christmas eve!


"Night Before Christmas"
By Amy Grant





"Silent Night"
By Andy Williams


25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 23 "Christmas Canon Rock"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 23
"Christmas Canon Rock"
By Trans-Siberian Orchestra




25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 22 "Unto Us a Child is Born"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 22
"Unto Us a Child is Born"

Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, Susan Gritton, Sara Mingardo, Mark Padmore, Alastair Miles and the Tenebrae choir performing Handel's Messiah. http://bit.ly/OSVpV Recorded in December 2006



25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 21 "Emmanuel God with us"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 21
"Emmanuel God with us"
By Amy grant




This is not the best video, But I LOVE this song! It is probably my favorite Christmas song!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 20 "God With Us"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 20
"God With Us"
lyrics and music by Namulauulu P. Pouesi



This is another amazing song! I just found it while looking for my song for tomorrow! This is a wonderful praise and worship song and the video goes well with it!
Hope you enjoy and are inspired!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 19 "O Little Town of Bethlehem"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 19
"O Little Town of Bethlehem"
By Jim Reeves


I just love this song!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 18 "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 18
"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
By Kutless

Wow! This was the first time I heard this song done by Kutless! They did really good!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 17 "O Come, O Come Emmanuel"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 17
"O Come, O Come Emmanuel"
by Selah


I love how Selah sings this song and their music! Amazing!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 16 "What Child Is This?"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 16
"What Child Is This?"
By Martina Mcbride

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 15 "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"

25 Days Of Christmas Music

Day 15
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" By Bing Crosby



I can hardly believe that it is almost Christmas! Yippee!

I found a few things at the Dollar store yesterday. Most of it is stocking stuffers, but I hope to get some more things later, even if it is late for Christmas! My children love gifts everyday of the year! Lol!

I think it will be a special Christmas though!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 14 "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 14
"Hark, The Herald Angels Sing"
By Nat King Cole



I love the lyrics to this song!
Hope you enjoy!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

L. Tremain Antique Collection Promo Code!


My Butter Bell Crock Giveaway may be over, but the L. Tremain company is still offering some great sells/promo codes! Right now you need to check out the Antique Seven Piece Ceramic Collection!

The beautiful 7 piece Antique Collection set, comes in 4 of their most popular Antique colors: White Linen, Ivory Rose, Rouge and Sea Spray. This lovely set adds a rustic decor to your kitchen or can be sent to that special someone in your life as wonderful holiday gift!

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I love the Ivory Rose set (pictured above) and the Sea Spray set (below) is also so lovely!

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Butter Bell Crock Winner!

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Friday, December 10, 2010

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 11 "On a Snowy Christmas Night"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 11
"On a Snowy Christmas Night"
By Elvis





"Give thanks for all you have been blessed with"!

"For You Know The Lord's Been Good To You"!

This has to be one of my Favorite Elvis songs!

Hope you enjoy!

Thursday, December 9, 2010

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 10 "Do You Hear What I Hear"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 10
"Do You Hear What I Hear"
by Third Day



I Love this song and Third Day just makes it better!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 9 "The Little Drummer Boy"

25 Days Of Christmas Music

Day 9

"The Little Drummer Boy"

By The Harry Simeone Chorale






This is my favorite version of "The Little Drummer Boy"!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 8 "We Three Kings"

How about two versions of "We three Kings"?

The first is:

We Three Kings
By dc Talk

And I didn't know they had a Christmas album!

The next is:

"We Three Kings of Orient Are" written by J.H. Hopkins sung by Tonus Peregrinus

This video has beautiful images! And if you want to learn more about the images, I posted some info below the video! Enjoy!





Images:
1. James Tissot: The Wise Men Journeying to Betlehem (1886-94)
2. Sir Edward Burne-Jones: The Star Of Betlehem (1888-91)
3. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Adoration of the Magi (1753)
4. Joseph Highmore: The Adoration of the Magi (1750)
5. James Tissot: The Adoration of the Magi (1886-94)
6. Diego Velázquez: The Adoration of the Magi (1619)
7. He Qi: The Magi
8. Albrecht Dürer: The Adoration of the Magi (1504-05)
9. Rembrandt: Adoration of the Magi (1632)
10. Federico Barocci: The Adoration of the Magi (1561-63)
11. Albert Herbert: Epiphany (1962)
12. Gentile da Fabriano: The Adoration of the Magi, detail (1422)
13. Jim Janknegt: Adoration of the Kings
14. Hieronymus Bosch: The Adoration of the Magi, detail (ca. 1495)
15. Leonaert Bramer: The Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1633-35)
16. Jan de Bray: Adoration of the Magi (1658)
17. Quentin Massys: The Adoration of the Magi (1526)
18. The Three Wise Men, African Mafa
19. Carlo Maratti: Adoration of the Magi (In Garland) (ca. 1700)

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 7 "O' Come All Ye Faithful"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 7
O' COME ALL YE FAITHFUL
By NAT KING COLE

I love how Nat King Cole sings this beautiful song!

Hope you enjoy too!

Win $500 Gift Card to Kmart & $500 Gift card to Sears! At Flying Giggles and Lollipops!

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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Pictures that Make me Smile!

I love pictures! They hold so many happy memories and things that make me laugh!

Here are some of my favorites that I have taken over this year (2010) and why they are so funny and special to me!

First,
Our adorable girls! Here they are wearing some new skirts that mommy made them and they were running around and being goofy! I ask them to stop for a picture and as soon as I took it, the oldest princess breaks out in a goofy dance! Lol! The youngest always smiles so big that she closes her eyes! Lol!



Next, my niece!
There are so many reasons to smile here!
She was born with a cleft lip and palette. Her cleft lip was actually a double cleft. She has had 3 surgeries since she was born and every time she has done really good and now, you can hardly tell she had any cleft at all!
In this picture she was showing off and kept closing her eyes every time I took a picture of her! She is so funny!



The next two pictures are not smiling faces, but they really make me smile and laugh! Our girls were playing with a toy in the kitchen and they threw it up on one of our refrigerators. So they started looking under the two refrigerators! Lol!



Too funny!
I look forward to our Christmas pictures and Lord willing, a lot of great pictures to make us smile next year!

I am participating in the Invisalign Teen Bright Smiles Holiday Photo Contest with Dumb Mom.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

"GiveBack" Shop Online and Support your Favorite Charities!


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I have not started to shop online thru GiveBack yet, only because I have not done my Christmas shopping yet! This will be great though! Now I can shop for Christmas and donate to my foundations at the same time! =)

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Monday, December 6, 2010

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 6 "Away in A Manger"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 6

"Away in A Manger"
By Casting Crowns




My children love this Christmas song! And I love singing it with them!

I think it is very important to sing with our children!

And Christmas is a wonderful time to sing!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 5 "Angels We Have heard on High"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 5
"Angels We Have heard on High"
By Chris Tomlin

Sorry I am a day late with this! Didn't get to blog yesterday since we were out cutting firewood! It has been cold here lately! And we had some snow flurries yesterday! Yippee! It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas and winter! =)

Saturday, December 4, 2010

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 4 " I heard the Bells on Christmas Day"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 4
"I heard the Bells on Christmas Day"

First a disclaimer! I am not a fan of Harry Belafonte, but I do love this song!

Now to "Peace"!

"Peace on earth good will to men"

Who believes we really have that on earth anymore? All the war, death, fighting, breakdown of families, morals and values are disregarded, unborn babies are killed and children are thrown out to the "wolves"!

I believe that Christmas is a wonderful time for us to return to peace and living a peaceful life.

But that is up to each of us to decide on our own.

Think it is too much for you? We are not alone! God is for peace, God is for us! He gives us strength, He gives us Himself! With Him we can have peace! But we have to take the first step to let Him into out life and put on the new man/woman!

So what do you want this Christmas? Peace? Let God in and give Him Everything! Put on His armour and stand for peace!

Friday, December 3, 2010

$55 CSN Stores Giveaway @ Tiaras and Tantrums!

CSN Stores is having a lot of great Holiday sales and I would love to do some Christmas shopping at a few of the 200 plus CSN Stores! =)

Right now, Tiaras and Tantrums is having a CSN Stores giveaway! How Great is that?!!!!

I would love to get some bedding or a quilt for the girls for Christmas!

Enter for your chance to win $55 to CSN Stores at Tiaras and Tantrums!
Giveaway ends Dec. 18th!

Thursday, December 2, 2010

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 3 "Joy To The World"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 3
"Joy To The World"

with Big Daddy Weave!



Joy! Christmas is the time for joy! Not stressing and worrying! Not anger and depression! It is the time for joy! To sing, laugh, love and enjoy the family and all who are dear to you! How can you show your love and care this Christmas without joy in your heart?

This Christmas season, instead of stress and anger, give your troubles to God, grab some chocolate and sing, "Joy to The World" and let all your troubles melt away!

25 Days Of Christmas Music Day 2 "Love Came Down at Christmas"

25 Days Of Christmas Music
Day 2
"Love Came Down at Christmas"
Sung by jarsofclay
I think the lyrics of this sang say it all! =)
Christmas is the time to love! To focus on God's love for us, that He loved us so much that He sent His only Son, and He sacrificed Himself for our sins!
Christmas is the time to show others how much we love and care for them!
Hope you enjoy the song, and remember this Christmas season that LOVE is the greatest!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

25 Days of Christmas Music Day 1 "Go Tell It on The Mountain"

Welcome to Day 1 of the 25 Days of Christmas Music!

The first song is:

"Go Tell it on The mountain"

sung by

Needtobreathe

I did not learn this song till I was in my middle teens. We would sing it every Sunday after our Bible reading (home church), before Christmas! My youngest brother (at the time) Loved singing this song! I can still hear my family singing this song! We sometimes sang it after Christmas or even thru the year, because we loved it so much! =)

I played it for my girls today and they love Needtobreathe already, so they really liked hearing this!

I think "Go tell it on the Mountain" is just a great "children's" song! Maybe it will bring out the "child" in you this Christmas season! I think we all could use a little of that!

Child-like faith, child-like joy and child-like love!

25 Days of Christmas Music!

Hey friends!
I am going to share a Christmas song from a youtube video for the next 25 days, till Christmas day (if my computer holds up! Lol!)!
These will be a selection of some of my favorite songs and musicians!
Hope you enjoy and leave comments!!
(If you want to join, let me know and I will add a linky!)!

Have a very Merry musical Christmas!
~Hannah